Suicide as a better alternative to life

So Dionne told me not to be such a pessimist today. It sort of got me into thinking out stuff. Well, its common knowledge that I’ve got this suicidal tendency for as long as I lived. But can you just assume that suicide’s supposed to be pessimistic? Well, don’t take it at face-value man. Suicide is just a better alternative to life. Since its a better path, why not take it? Why must the law condemn suicide? On what basis can they dictate our existence?

We all crave for better alternatives, like larger houses, branded automobiles, fatter paychecks and stuff. Why not extend it just a little further to better lives? Since we cannot deny that every step we intend to take in life is to better it, why not ending it be one of them? Why is death such a haunting prospect to others when one is willing?

In this case, what they’re proving is that life is a one-way thing. Your mom and dad brought you to life without your consent in the first place and what actually happens later on is that you can’t turn back. But are you even willing to enter this world in the first place? Well, at that point in time when you are conceived, you are in no position to decide. But now that you are mature enough to make decisions on your own, we should all agree that this better alternative to end life should be rightfully extended to you upon the coming of age. After all, we didn’t sign the bloody contracts to come into this place. We can’t violate the rights of life when we didn’t have the rights to decide whether to be conceived or not. But paradoxically speaking, we can’t make our decisions when we don’t have the ability to make it after all. So what I feel is that we should all be allowed to decide when we have the level of maturity and capability to do it.

And that’s that. Sorry if I’ve caused widespread depression upon you readers but that’s my take on the subject.

Disclaimer: I’m not suggesting that I’m turning on to end my life. So, don’t abduct me to a shrink the next time you see me.

Bye and have a nice day.

Big Brother is watching you

Went out with this bunch of friends days ago, not very advisable considering my blasted tuitions but as I’ve said, they are my bunch of friends and bunches are meant to be taken seriously! Well, weird things happen in bunches and that’s what happened to mine. For instance, I’ve just got enough sense to realize how MSN is revolutionizing us teens lives. You can don’t own a credit, or an automobile, or a spouse-oops, I mean bgr but you must, I repeat, you must have MSN! I mean, how ridiculous if you are an ordinary teen, living in the 21st century w/o a MSN account?! Well, back to us bunch, certain extremely worrying trends started showing up…

“You know why Fedex and UPS are upset at their merger?
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“Cos they are fed-up, get it?”

Whole group chorus in unison, “L-O-L” followed by the trademark three fingers running down the right temple…
However, this blasted guy Sam, became spastically slow, must be the accursed quake in Taiwan…

“Oi Sam! You damn lag leh!”
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“Oh, sorry, was AFK-ing just now. Is anything the matter?”

Whole group, “R-O-F-L-M-A-O”

See? We’re turning into a geek era! God save us! The Orwellian Newspeak—The MSN-speak! Gosh. Thanks to Bill Gates and his MSN, Steve Jobs and his Ipod, comrades, back at 1984! Big Brother is watching you! Hurhurhur…

Where the bloody hell are you?

We’ve got your shirt done!

We’ve got you weights for your schoolbag! [10 bloody kg!]

We’ve planned your suicide next year!

We’ve got mum to pen your suicide note!

We’ve got you looking forward to the 3rd!

SO WHERE THE BLOODY HELL ARE YOU?!

On why we shouldn’t think too much

Was reading this book and didn’t know it was supposed to be partially-philo until page 20+, which is quite a lot, since it was quite a mouthful to swallow. Well anyway, it was nice, and actually made me a happier person. Haha, quite hard to take this fact eh? Its ‘The age of fallibility’ by George Soros, you know the guy who occasionally appears on CNN to comment on the Bush administration? Well, the book was supposed to be based on the consequences of the war on terror, mainly about Bush and the States if you ask me. But then again, its best to put it in a generalized manner to avoid possible law suits eh? Soros divided the book into two parts, one mainly about the philo stuff and the second is basically about “What’s wrong with America?”

He spoke about the relationship between thinking and reality. Knowledge is represented by true statements but the truth cannot be known because its based on what we think. So, our knowledge is incomplete and the imperfect understanding becomes part of reality which caused misconceptions to be internalized within us. And because we rely partially on our incomplete knowledge to make decisions, our decisions would be very much erred compared to the perhaps ideal decisions made if we possess all the relevant facts. But then again, we can’t possibly attain all the relevant facts because of the human uncertainty principle. Quote “The relationship between thinking and reality is not between two separate entities but between a part and a whole.” So what we think is never complete and can never actually corresponds fully with reality as we aren’t and never will be able to achieve the complete picture of reality in the first place. In short, what we think is distorted and perhaps, biased towards our selected and very much processed knowledge which might be very different from reality.

So its a kinda chicken-and-egg cycle if you ask me. First we think, but we realize that what we think does not fully correspond to the reality cos of the incomplete knowledge which then again might not be true cos its partially based on what we think and so here we go round the mulberry bush, the mulberry bush, the mulberry bush…

Poof, I think I’m done. That was pretty much a mouthful, eh? I don’t think I’m really coherent so pardon me if you find that confusing. So all in all, we shouldn’t worry about our woes cos we will never be able to find a sound reason behind it. Perhaps, we all should avoid mind-reading and get started with some real effective communications. Haha, now I know why Soros said in his Intro that the philosophy featured in this book veers towards the positive side.