I have realized that some of my ideas change with my humor. Sometimes I have day-long headaches that make everything seem boring to me, and in these days I find a lot less reasons to not kill myself than normally. In some days I just suddently get happy and start thinking everything is just eternal pure joy and happiness. Anyone else has swings like that? =)

Yes. Many of us who have manic-depressive tendencies.

One thing that strikes me on this issue, quite poignantly, is that particularly in our culture, one must find reasons to feel good, think positively and "just chill" mentally. We're bombarded with why we must have this to fell good, wear that to be attractive and do something else to be successful. Others tend to be rude, self-seeking and compartmentalized in their scramble for stuff; leaving us to fend for ourselves ('... alone in a crowded room').

Agreed.
Although, I'm having much less happy days than I used to.

But there is stuff that can be prescribed for that condition if it is severe. And it is supposed to be pretty successful.

I have realized that some of my ideas change with my humor. Sometimes I have day-long headaches that make everything seem boring to me, and in these days I find a lot less reasons to not kill myself than normally. In some days I just suddently get happy and start thinking everything is just eternal pure joy and happiness. Anyone else has swings like that? =)

But, I can always find humour in even the most morbid of things. Not always to everyone's pleasure though! :shifty:

It is that closure on life, a solvency, that acceptance of the inevitable that brings the euphoria and more so that one is moving towards it and one was momentarily afraid of it seems obsurd seems ridiculous seems comical. It also has something to do with bravery, or do i mean bravado?
'The Bravado of Meetings with the Reaper' or 'The Bravado of Dying All the Time' seems like the climax of a song i never sang or the beginning of a poem i never penned, but both ballads.
Why be depressed about inevitable things, better and easier to make them funny. Or do i mean quicker?

Ah, I know that. Then you do that, people will anoyingly think you are a monster rather than realizing you are "laughing to not cry". And these people are usually sad =)

The idea of a chemical unbalance in the brain making people depressed makes me wonder... the brain is the mind, what means than whatever happens to the brain affects your mind, and whatever happens to your mind affects your brain... so are you depressed because the chemical unbalance in your brain affects your mind, or because your depressed mind affects the chemical balance in your brain? =)

You mean that there is one point when we realize fear of death is ridiculous and that we should laugh at the face of fear and death, rather than fear then both? I agree =)

Death is a joke, it is not to be feared, it is natural just like laughter. But i dont think people really fear death they fear dying.

Some people fear death too, specially those who dont believe in afterlife. Off course, there is no reason to fear nothingness, but our instincts fear it anyway =)

Seems to me that people who do believe in an after life are supposed to fear death more. Again i am not sure those without the faith fear death, fear nothingness because they may also believe that their life means nothing so why oh why would you fear death if you still had a choice not to?
Why would some one who doesn't believe and are in fear would persist with fear when the belief could free them from the fear, or maybe the no believers would rather fear nothing than fear everything. Maybe they dont have a choice in what they believe, maybe none of us have a choice over our faith.?
I still maintain that those without faith are built to have it and fight with it, this natural reflex which is to have be with faith, i think it is harder to not believe that it is to accept it.
Something called the superstition complex/condition (or something like that), we are all naturally built if you believe Richard Dawkins to at least hold some reflex which i think he calls the superstitious gene (he deals alot with 'genes' dosen't he) if pigeons have it and we have it then surely we are naturally built to have faith to hold that somethings are controled from the outside of us, a force which is internal but that which externalises and thinks the external has some plan over what the outsome will be internally. It is an in built predilection towards simply knowing or accepting the supernatural. Why fight our nature? This is part of our pattern patent,
are we built to trust ourselves or are we built to fight ourselves?

Superstition; noun 1 belief in an influence that certain (especially commonplace) objects, actions, or occurrences have on events, peoples lives, etc 2 A particular opinion or practice based on such a belief. 3 any widely held but unfounded belief. [from Latin superstitio, fear of the supernatural]
We are built with it, why unless there is something to be noticed?
Doe sit prove that pigeons have souls as well then?

Yes. Many of us who have manic-depressive tendencies.

Death is a joke, it is not to be feared, it is natural just like laughter. But i dont think people really fear death they fear dying.

Some people fear death too, specially those who dont believe in afterlife. Off course, there is no reason to fear nothingness, but our instincts fear it anyway =)

and females.


haha.


i'm kidding,kinda. :shifty:




i think people only have fear to fear. Dying is just a way of life, like emotions, like thoughts, like experiences, like love, etc... etc... If you're afraid of death, you might also be afraid of living. As they both can cause a depressing emotion.

however, yes the idea of ''dying'' is scary,beacuse you don't know when, or how. Which can be very uncomfortable... but fearing either dying and/or death it self is just draining emotion. So like i said, people only should fear, fear itself. As fear can cause people to hold back from doing things in their life. :sarcastic:

does that make sense? ha.

i disagree. I do not believe in an afterlife, well i'm more comfortable saying I do not know if there is an afterlife,and that i don't think there is one. I fear an afterlife actually based on not wanting to be in hell or HEAVEN. The idea of existing after this life whether it's bliss or torture, is not very appealing to me. As i find this life stressful, full of struggles and also happiness, however i value this life for those things. I wouldn't want to ''live on'' after life in either good or bad, but in both. I'm all about a balance,and not having the boat tip any one way hence, why i do not believe in an afterlife but i think there isn't one.