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user-inactivated  ·  3359 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How do you convince a completely miserable person that the world isn't such a terrible place?

I think more people ask the question than you think. You wouldn't know if someone did. It's embarrassing for a lot of people to admit that they've contemplated their own existence as not worth sustaining.

Maybe everyone but you has contemplated suicide. You wouldn't know at all. It's not likely, but it's possible.

It's a situation where being right may occur, and it's a question where no one actually knows the answer. So everyone can pretend they're right, and maybe some people are right, but no one knows until they get there.





user-inactivated  ·  3359 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    So everyone can pretend they're right, and maybe some people are right, but no one knows until they get there.

Which defies the idea of being right in this particular case, doesn't it?

user-inactivated  ·  3359 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's what I'm saying.