Justme696
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but do you cut your belly open when you disappoint or fail? (yes I know absurd remark)
There are some situations where death would be the only acceptable option to me, but I'd rather use a good old fashioned combo of heroin and barbiturates, or exsanguination. The exact manner is as much a custom thing in a society where appearances were important, as anything else. I have no need to replicate that, as I'm not concerned with appearances, nor do I live in a culture that would appreciate it. Besides, it's damn painful, and I don't deal so well with pain when I don't have to.
I did at one point incorporate some core values from Bushido in my life, and still incorporate a smaller subset. But I'm not concerned with being a samurai or whatever. I'm concerned with being me. As such, I'm somewhat eclectic. And I think there was a pretty good lesson in the NT about the idea of perseverance and redemption: you give it what you've got, you stumble, you fall, you get back up, you keep going, and you own it along the way.
For me, suicide is nothing more than a way to avoid something unacceptable; I don't view it as a way to redeem oneself. Obviously, it seems to have been different to the samurai. That said, people who think it's "taking the easy way out" are usually the ones who have never seriously contemplated it; if they had, they would have a pretty good idea that there's nothing particularly easy about it. Leaving aside the obvious bits, thoughts that will be going through your head if you're rationally considering it include a lot of unpleasant things like what it'll be like for whoever finds you (my reason for my preference for barbiturates), what the pathologist will tell your family about your last moments (my reason for including heroin in the preferences), and what it'll be like for people to lose you (one of my main reasons for choosing life every day).
[qoute]It is easy to read and say I live like this and that....but we will never know how it was then. And besides that..the samurai.....ended also because of themselfs...clinging to the past. So they are not that perfect.
Nobody is perfect. Yet what you say here, is that you are holding their integrity against them. That you think it a flaw that they would not compromise what they believed in to fit their environment. (Yes, I know a lot of them were simply holding on to power, but not everyone was.)
To me, it seems admirable to choose extinction over becoming the antithesis of what one holds dear.
Health,
al-Aswad.
Always nice to read you replies.
I am not holding it against them,..to have their high standards and defend to the end. But what use do high standards have,,,when they lead to selfdestruction. That is why every living thing takes part in evolution...to adjust..to get stronger. Their high standards are lost now also. We propably never know why it happens...because we are not living in that time..no matter how many books we read about the subject.
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