How is life?

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Which is better?

It is better to live than never to have been born.
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It would have been better never to have been born than to live.
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I don't know.
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many have said
not reach deathbed
regrets unshed

none worry me
as lack of thee:
wished never be


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The older I get,
the more I appreciate life.
In the pain of youth,
my eyes were clouded to a lot.

When you meet the next generation,
it shows how darkness can birth light -
and it becomes easier to accept the path entirely.
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henry quirk wrote: Tue Apr 15, 2025 12:37 am
Gary Childress wrote: Tue Apr 15, 2025 12:05 am
Who are these think positive folks you speak of?
If you have to ask, then you're either being disingenuous or else you haven't been exposed to many contemporary mental health practitioners. Either way, it doesn't matter.
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Nothing matters. The universe will end and everything will be gone.
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Maia wrote: Tue Apr 15, 2025 8:04 am Life is a wonderful, glorious gift, and we should all make the most of it.
Life is wonderful unless it isn't. It can vary from person to person, and it can vary from moment to moment.
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Gary Childress wrote: Tue Apr 15, 2025 12:39 pm you haven't been exposed to many contemporary mental health practitioners.
None actually. Never met one, insofar as I know. Have met a few Pollyanna-types, though. Relentlessly optimistic and thoroughly insane. They ought to have warning labels: exposure may cause diabetes. Far too sweet for my tastes.
Either way, it doesn't matter.
Mebbe not. Not everything does.
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Gary Childress wrote: Tue Apr 15, 2025 1:12 pm
Maia wrote: Tue Apr 15, 2025 8:04 am Life is a wonderful, glorious gift, and we should all make the most of it.
Life is wonderful unless it isn't. It can vary from person to person, and it can vary from moment to moment.

This was always my now passed on, mother's favourite Monty Python scene..


This should put life into perspective Gazza...

Galaxy Song - Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqtdpuZxvk
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You succeed in reducing,
when cursing the heavens -
yourself.

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I think of N.'s affirmation.
If we are to live this life again,
why not live it well?
And if once, the same.

James said, [and I paraphrase]
to appreciate that which is within one's grasp -
that which one has access to.
To focus on what you have, than what you don't.

And if life is all we have,
and we'll never attain otherwise,
then wisdom is aligning with this -
not thrashing to what you know is futile.

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Your mother had good taste, atto.
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As Schopenhauer stated: "Life is something which should never have been." The harsh reality of hunger and suffering through the harsh reality of life lives upon life are the most horrific realizations one can entertain. Ever-bringing fresh innocence into the world is an involuntary act, fulfilling the will of a mindless process. Just a little something to brighten your day--- lol!!
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popeye1945 wrote: Tue Apr 15, 2025 11:31 pm As Schopenhauer stated: "Life is something which should never have been." The harsh reality of hunger and suffering through the harsh reality of life lives upon life are the most horrific realizations one can entertain.
But the reality of 'Life', Itself, is there is no actual hunger, (except on the very rarest of occasions), and no actual suffering at all, except of course the adult human beings causes of hunger and of suffering.
popeye1945 wrote: Tue Apr 15, 2025 11:31 pm Ever-bringing fresh innocence into the world is an involuntary act, fulfilling the will of a mindless process. Just a little something to brighten your day--- lol!!
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accelafine wrote:
attofishpi wrote: This was always my now passed on, mother's favourite Monty Python scene..


This should put life into perspective Gazza...

Galaxy Song - Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqtdpuZxvk
Wonderfuk. I love John Cleese. Terry Jones was always my favourite Python, when he had his pants down. He was horribly bullied by John Cleese, apparently because Cleese saw his enormous appendage and was extremely jealous.

PS: Serves you right for deleting your post..I still had the post on my TV haha :lol:
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attofishpi wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 4:58 am
accelafine wrote:
attofishpi wrote: This was always my now passed on, mother's favourite Monty Python scene..


This should put life into perspective Gazza...

Galaxy Song - Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqtdpuZxvk
Wonderfuk. I love John Cleese. Terry Jones was always my favourite Python, when he had his pants down. He was horribly bullied by John Cleese, apparently because Cleese saw his enormous appendage and was extremely jealous.

PS: Serves you right for deleting your post..I still had the post on my TV haha :lol:
Well you would know all about tiny appendages. You are about as funny as Prom.
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And what a tragic little avatar you have now. So fitting :lol:
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accelafine wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 5:02 am Well you would know all about tiny appendages. You are about as funny as Prom.
..rather a tad more funny than Prom..

Don't tell me what personality you are running with today...I'll work it out lata. :D
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"Despite the high cost of living, it remains popular." :wink:
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attofishpi wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 5:06 am
accelafine wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 5:02 am Well you would know all about tiny appendages. You are about as funny as Prom.
True. I was born with a micropenis and despite my grandpa's constant sucking it stayed tiny.
I don't want to hear that.
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