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What does your favorite writer say about suicide?

>> No.19624121

>>19624016
Dostoyevsky is my favorite writer. Does he mean woe to the suicides pre-suicide? is he talking about the hell that is the period between making the decision and pulling the trigger? what is the 'certain knowledge' and 'absolute truth?

>> No.19624134

>>19624016
Did christians ever ascend in their reasoning beyond
>If you disagree with me god will hecking send you to a place of fire and demons whoa! Better agree with whatever unsubstantiated horseshit I'm saying!

>> No.19624153

>>19624121
To be fair this is a quote from a character in the Brothers Karamazov, it isn't necessarily what Dostoevsky himself believes.

>> No.19624161

my favorite author shot himself in his car so uh

>> No.19624172

>>19624161
REH was based.

>> No.19624185

>>19624172
his works shouldnt be under copyright anymore and neither should the lord of the rings.

>> No.19624213
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19624213

My favorite writer committed suicide four times.

>> No.19624237
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>>19624213
Yeah but Japs aren't Christian so its all "ah sooo, most ronourable choice, grasshopper"

>> No.19624240

>>19624134
>unsubstantiated
Bro of you are expecting ethical arguments to be substantiated I don't know what to tell you.

>> No.19624256

My favorite writer drowned himself with his 4th wife at only 37. He also attempted suicide 5+ times.

>> No.19624257

>>19624153
He was Orthodox, that is exactly what he believes.

>> No.19624260

>>19624153
ahh true. I hate when people attribute a quote to an author and not the character that is saying it in context.

>> No.19624306
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>>19624237
Dazai read the Bible and believed in the Christian conception of Hell--it was Heaven that he couldn't comprehend.

>> No.19624420

>>19624257
Probably but I don't think it's fair to assume just because Fyodor Karamazov or the Underground Man said something then Dostoevsky agrees with it.

>> No.19626027

>>19624016
I don't know

>> No.19626129

>>19624016
He was just wondering if it would be better than coffee

>> No.19626143

“They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice; that only a madman could be guilty of it; and other insipidities of the same kind; or else they make the nonsensical remark that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.”
-A Schopenhauer

>> No.19627003

>>19624306
Heaven is just God's Uber.

>> No.19627028

>>19624016
>duuuuh jesus im christarded

>> No.19627106

>>19624016
As a slavophile, I can tell that Dosto was right about most . This one among others.