I keep reading these “inspirational” posts that say: “When you wake up, be grateful that you're alive.”
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ WHY? ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
I was non-existent for fourteen billion years, and in only a few years I'm going to be dead, which means that I will again be non-existent for fourteen billion years. And for all eternity. And even a few days after that.
How the hell am I supposed to be inspired by those few days between non-existence and death (more non-existence) — when all around me is a world just looking for a way to kill me?
Vodka anyone?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.reminds me of a gravestone i saw in an ancient roman cemetery. it read (translated):
i was not
i was
i am not
i do not care.
callmedubious
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Feb 21, 2019
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I find the whole “gratitude” thing especially annoying. Not gratitude to someone for something tangible or specific, but an ubiquitous, generalized gratitude to no one in particular. WTF? I suspect it’s a superfluous survival of theistic thinking. (I live in the US, and also suspect this may be why I’m seldom invited to Thanksgiving celebrations...).
The-Krzyz
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Feb 20, 2019
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I take a ‘smoke break’ during the ‘blessing’.
I don’t smoke!?
@CarolinaGirl60 I’m thinking of taking up smoking! It looks so chic and I hear it’s very good for you!
I call folks who do that the Positive Police. They will bully you relentlessly to look on the bright side, count your blessings, it happens for a ‘reason’(spoiler: that reason is, some folks are just joy-sucking asshats)...and yada yada yada.
One of them once said, after I lost my beloved younger brother to cancer: ‘well, at least you know he’s in a ‘better place’. I actually saw red.
CarolinaGirl60
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Feb 20, 2019
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That's the worst. And that they feel they "have" to say it. In times like that I wish I could tell them that maybe the best thing they could add to this conversation is silence.
@Benthoven I lost all my fucks with my brother, so now I -do- tell them.
A ‘better place’ for my brother is: HERE. With his wife and five kids...which is what I said. Yeah, I’m an evil crazy beyotch, but it stopped that line of platitudes in its tracks. ?
@CarolinaGirl60: I really like that response.
People would say to me (my brother-in-law was one of the 16 marines killed over Mississippi a couple of years ago)... "God has a plan," or "it's all part of God's plan..." To which I told them that God had no right making plans with my brother's life without consulting him.
@Benthoven I’m so sorry for your loss.
How folks can accept-and cling to-the delusion of a ‘loving’ deity is beyond me.
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