Posted by Sigismund on February 15, 2010, at 1:11:55
I mentioned the time I said to my psych
'Sometimes I feel so embarrassed to be part of this species that I want to kill myself'
and he said
'Oh no, I think it's fascinating'.Anyway today I said
'I've got a thought experiment. I have the button that makes the human race vanish. What do I do? I can't press it (murdering my kids) and (hahaha) depriving the human race of the opportunity of learning from its experiences (took us a while to recover from that), and I can't not press it, so I'll shoot myself out the back for cowardice. What would you do? Would you?'
and he said
'Oh yes'.
I wonder if people might feel less pain if they could accept the world as it is.I won't be posting for a bit. I'm off to do a little volunteer English teaching in Vietnam, where in my youth 600,000 Vietnamese and 60,000 Americans died for something or other. He says all politicians are sociopaths. I've never met someone who surprises me so much and also helps me handle my own negativity. He also said 'The human race is pretty f*ck*d up'.
I'm off. Bye.
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