I think you are a marvellous individual. — FlorenceKaia
Tears of Joy (Never, unfortunately, experienced that!). — Agent Smith
I enjoy this destiny and use it to better my life and keep myself away from stupid things. — FlorenceKaia
"He who has tried the serious, is no longer interested in the joke." — ithinkthereforeidontgiveaf
Man, to not get the joke is a serious problem! When we can no longer laugh at ourselves, we are in deep trouble, and for this reason, I wonder why we hold some philosophers on pedestals. They were seriously troubled men and can take us further into Hades instead of out of it. Comedians are often people who had terrible lives and they learned to use humor to cope with that. Some of them learned to teach us by using humor to make a point. The Greeks had both tragedies and comedies and I think this advanced their intelligence. — Athena
As humans we usually illustrate reality and somehow define and know how to function within that illustration of reality.
You can see it on religion, social movements, philosophies...
When used properly it helps like it helped you out of depression.
But there are lots of kinds of people... I would say I am the kind of human that doesn't easily illustrates reality or gets someone's else illustration.
Not chosen but my only way "out" of depression was and is acceptance.
I just have it and probably will not get literally out of it, but it's not completely bad. If it wasn't for it, I would have not be able to deal with things I dealt with.
I mostly see ironies in this respect.
To be grateful with depression. What an irony. — ithinkthereforeidontgiveaf
Man, to not get the joke is a serious problem! When we can no longer laugh at ourselves, we are in deep trouble — Athena
think you are saying something important when you speak of not getting someone else's point of view. Being sensitive to other points of view might be very important to getting out of oneself and seeing the bigger picture? — Athena
moderation — Athena
is too serious. — Hillary
who like fires more often than women — Hillary
take your depression seriously is kindof disturbing. — Hillary
I really like fire. It is one of the most beautiful things on earth... but not more beautiful than women are. — ithinkthereforeidontgiveaf
As a said above there are lots of kinds of people... more serious... less serious... — ithinkthereforeidontgiveaf
You must have liked the flames rising to the nose of Joan of Arc... — Hillary
But do you actually like being depressed? — Hillary
How can you? — Hillary
If I'm able to endure the pain, I think that to be burnt alive would be a glorious death — ithinkthereforeidontgiveaf
Talking seriously... I like flames in every state of their existence. They make disgrace seem beautiful. — ithinkthereforeidontgiveaf
Most great people in the past were burn in flames. Like Giordano Bruno. — ithinkthereforeidontgiveaf
But do you actually like being depressed?
— Hillary
Yes. — ithinkthereforeidontgiveaf
How can you?
— Hillary
Nothing can be worse. Anything else is profit. — ithinkthereforeidontgiveaf
You're born in the wrong era, my friend. — Hillary
I'm not sure it's a depression then. — Hillary
Being in a manic up can only lead to falling down. But the height feels great! — Hillary
By the way, who doesn't like chaos? — ithinkthereforeidontgiveaf
predictability and boredom. — Tom Storm
I am definitely born in the right era. — ithinkthereforeidontgiveaf
By the way, who doesn't like chaos? — ithinkthereforeidontgiveaf
I'm not sure it's a depression then.
— Hillary
Then I am either a god or a monster.
I don't believe in gods. — ithinkthereforeidontgiveaf
I didn't say I was going to get that profit. — ithinkthereforeidontgiveaf
Do you know what is better than hitting rock bottom, Hillary? Staying there. Specially if it's forever, and more specially if you know it. — ithinkthereforeidontgiveaf
One of my best friends seems to have spent his life in depression. — Athena
hitting rock bottom — ithinkthereforeidontgiveaf
Do you know what is better than hitting rock bottom, Hillary? Staying there. Specially if it's forever, and more specially if you know it. — ithinkthereforeidontgiveaf
I find myself observing, and also not doing it, which makes me think: Is my condition actually an illness, or is it an adaptation, really? — ithinkthereforeidontgiveaf
highly adaptable mind, at least. — Possibility
:snicker: So, you, Athena, a goddess, no less, didn't help? No wonder the Romans, plagiarists, switched from Olympus to Jersualem! — Agent Smith
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