Do people actually do the 'subscribing to threads' thing? I've never bothered before

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Seems like the "subscription" thing is a remnant from the e-mail discussion list era. Back before people got on forums multiple times every day expecting to see something new each time.

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles Seems like the "subscription" thing is a remnant from the e-mail discussion list era. Back before people got on forums multiple times every day expecting to see something new each time.

Lol, yeah.

Though, I'm actually still on one of those email discussion lists.

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Nou is of course forgetting about people who are so depressed and sad that they think that them killing themselves will actually make the people in their lives feel better. That they are so useless and make everyone around them so sad and miserable that maybe the best way for them to be selfless is to rid the world of themselves. That it's because they love other people and see the bad effects they have upon them that they kill themselves.

That's not really being selfish, it's just stupid, thinking other people will be better off without them, and that the people around them won't blame themselves and wonder what they could have done to stop it. But they won't see that, they'll just see themselves as this horrible ball of depression that nobody wants to be around, that hurts everyone that they care about, and who everyone wishes would just go away. So they kill themselves and think they've done the world a big favor.

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You really had to bring this thread back?

3 hours with no posts, I was hoping it would at least still be about Jennifer Conneley's tits.

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Sorry. Just thinking out loud.

Woo tits.

I'm subscribed to the What Did You Buy Recently thread, Post Your Setup Pics, and the TA Monthly Classics Mix thread. Used to be more, but then I disabled the setting. Never changed those three.

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after reading this thread I must admit, I now see suicide in a different light. thanks c0r!

Only Nou would think the world would fall apart because of the loss of one person. If that isn't self-centred/egotistical/narcissistic, I don't know what is. What a goddamn fucking moron.


edit: I mean, if the people in Nou's world were really as empathetic and altruistic as he thinks they should be, then wouldn't they understand exactly why a sick person would off themselves...and NOT think of THEIR OWN feelings?

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!

Last edited by Silky Johnson on Apr-07-2010 at 16:18

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Originally posted by jennypie Only Nou would think the world would fall apart because of the loss of one person. If that isn't selfish/narcissistic, I don't know what is. What a goddamn fucking moron.

Where did I ever say that?

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Originally posted by Joss Weatherby Where did I ever say that?

You're implying it by saying that suicide is the ultimate selfish act. Think of how it will affect other people, yadda yadda. I doubt that the people in your ideal society would put so much value on the loss of ONE person.

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Originally posted by Lira 2. What is suicide?

I stopped reading after this section Lira because we never were talking about suicide in any of those terms and I fundamentally disagree with those definitions to start with.

This discussion has always been about violent and sudden suicide. You have created a perfect straw man argument in that section by willfully adjusting my position to a position that is easier to defend because its more broad and based around certain terms that this discussion was never originally about and was never agreed upon by me.

In fact I had made clear that I was talking about these fundamentally two different definitions of suicide (failure to thrive and violent, sudden suicide) multiple times.

So cool. Sucks you wrote that much but you could have at least hidden that it was an obvious straw man better.

How convenient for you, fat man.

On that note, I'm off to do some gardening.