From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   On 2025-03-17, Ed Cryer  wrote:   
      
   >> How about just quietly doing it instead of making a big   
   >> announcement about it for ego's sake?   
   >>   
   >>   How could I die,   
   >>   I who conceive the birth, life, and death of all things,   
   >>   
   >>   I who, conceiving, cannot be conceived?"   
   >   
   > What utter balderdash!   
      
   I assure you this is USENET, not a board game!   
      
   > That borders on insanity!   
      
   Of course it does, for all mental is illness!   
      
   > What I want to do is put some meaning into your   
   > life. You expend so much time and energy in defence of   
   > your nihilism. The world could use that energy for some   
   > good. And you'd profit from that; you'd feel life pulling   
   > you back in.   
      
   How could it be *my* nihilism when it's not nihilism to me,   
   but to your idea of me in your modeling of reality?   
      
   > Get some roots. Get some connection with your past, because   
   > your past made you what you are. "The child is father to   
   > the man, and I would wish my days to be, linked each to   
   > each in natural piety".   
   >   
   > Rather than emulating Tubby Buddha, sitting cross-legged   
   > in the corner of some egarden, give thought to your past   
   > experiences; the stages of your life that moulded you and   
   > created a unique individual. And if they're painful to   
   > look at, bear in mind that no baby is born evil; they're   
   > made so by life, and self-exploration can unmake it.   
   > Take up your cross and fight the good fight.   
      
   How about "live and let live"?   
      
   --   
   NPC's dutifully ignored.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)