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- Aug 18, 2020
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I often watch a religion or philosophy TV show. It is in German language so posting it here won't help the most people. In this video they interviewed a zenmaster. I am not into spirituality. He seemed for me a little bit weird. His name is Muhō Nölke. Allegedly he is very smart, exceptionally smart. He had suicidal thoughts in the past and this was also the topic of the conversation. He said when he was 7 years old he questioned the meaning of life and developed suicidal thoughts. The interviewer asked him what he would tell his 7 year old self if there was a possibility to talk to him. And he said the follwing: In order to comfort his prior self he would say that life has no meaning (?) And in general one should tell people who question life: " The world would be better without you" in order to comfort them. (???????????) Such an idiot.
The interviewer laughed out loud and said you cannot mean this seriously. But he did. To be honest this is so ridiulous. I could not take him serious anymore after this sentence.
Okay this sounds so weird I post the link so that you don't think I invent stuff.
Minute 46 the part with the world was better without you.
But it gets even better (irony). His stance on suicide. (Minute 52). Life does not belong to oneself. If one committed suicide the other people would suffer and this is why suicide was always morally prohibited. We should be thankful to the people around us instead of hurting them. (Yeah thanks mom and dad for abusing since I was 5. Jerk)
Then comes his "perfect logic". To make the decision whether to die is made in our head. Though our body wants to live. He gives an example. If one really wants to die one could simply stop breathing for 5 minutes and then one would be dead. However the body demands air hence the body wants to live. Our head does not have the allowance to kill our body. People who think that were arrogant.
Moreover our future self has the right to live because it cannot be asked in case we were dead.
I hope you are not getting very angry when you read that. When I listened to it the first time I just thought what the fuck it wrong with this dude.
Now when I write this post I get pretty angry about that guy. I think this is absolute black-white thinking. And exactly such a stance contributes to the fact many suicidal people think other people would not take them seriously. This stance is absolutely bullshit and detrimental. I need to cope when I listen to such a bullshit and this place is good way to cope with such horrible arrogance towards suicidal people. Not the suicidal people are arrogant rather judgmental guys like this dude.
The interviewer laughed out loud and said you cannot mean this seriously. But he did. To be honest this is so ridiulous. I could not take him serious anymore after this sentence.
Okay this sounds so weird I post the link so that you don't think I invent stuff.
Minute 46 the part with the world was better without you.
But it gets even better (irony). His stance on suicide. (Minute 52). Life does not belong to oneself. If one committed suicide the other people would suffer and this is why suicide was always morally prohibited. We should be thankful to the people around us instead of hurting them. (Yeah thanks mom and dad for abusing since I was 5. Jerk)
Then comes his "perfect logic". To make the decision whether to die is made in our head. Though our body wants to live. He gives an example. If one really wants to die one could simply stop breathing for 5 minutes and then one would be dead. However the body demands air hence the body wants to live. Our head does not have the allowance to kill our body. People who think that were arrogant.
Moreover our future self has the right to live because it cannot be asked in case we were dead.
I hope you are not getting very angry when you read that. When I listened to it the first time I just thought what the fuck it wrong with this dude.
Now when I write this post I get pretty angry about that guy. I think this is absolute black-white thinking. And exactly such a stance contributes to the fact many suicidal people think other people would not take them seriously. This stance is absolutely bullshit and detrimental. I need to cope when I listen to such a bullshit and this place is good way to cope with such horrible arrogance towards suicidal people. Not the suicidal people are arrogant rather judgmental guys like this dude.
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