/sci/ - Science & Math

both

Neither.

I'm terrified of death, but I don't really like my life. At all. Mostly I just hope that reincarnation is real.

That's a wonderful gif

suicide all the time

used to think about suicide all the time until i had the chance to and pussied out. So now I deal with knowing i will have a blah life, AND i dont have the balls to become a hero

I don't really do either, but I don't think life is worth living if we only live for 100 years. I'm going to die anyways, why bother?

Ignorance is bliss, as they say.

That gif made my day.

And to answer your question, I alternate between the two. When i'm not marveling at the beauty of the universe and all it contains, I'm thinking about how pointless life is and eventually I have an existential crisis. Then I go back to loving the universe and enjoying life.

both. its fun sometimes but any real constructive goals seem pointless.

the possibility of biological immortality is what's keeping me around.

thinking about suicide usually every couple hours. i'm going to purchase some rope soon to hang myself with. what material should i choose /sci/?

I'm probably the happiest person I know. The Universe is too beautiful a place to think of things like suicide.

I think I have to agree with Camus on the subject. Fleeing from the absurdity of reality into illusions, religion, or death is the antithesis of freedom.

Seriously, though. When I ponder the fact that the atoms in my left hand probably came from a different star than the atoms in my right hand, or that the whole Universe is just one jiggling mess of atoms, I can't help but smile. Simply being able to experience reality, whether it be positive or negative at any given time, makes it impossible for me to be sad, let alone suicidal.

>>4309387
why the fuck would anyone want to be immorta? Around 80 is enough for me, thank you.

Suicide most of the time. Life seems to be all work with no real benefits. Hoping to find something that will make that no longer the case, but it doesn't seem promising.

The only thing that drives me to thoughts of suicide is how fucking stupid everybody is.

I mean, really? Religion having any place outside of history books in this day and age? Seriously? But it's not just people having religion. I can almost bring myself to respect that. It's the willful ignorance. The anti-science sentiment. The delusional insanity of it all. To make it worse, even most atheists are just as childish as their theist counterparts (and don't even get me started on those fucking "agnostics", makes my blood boil). They don't do any research and they're just as ignorant about logic and reasoning as the ones they so petulantly mock.

But it's not even just religion. Oh, no. The stupidity is everywhere. Politics. Economics. Business. It seeps into every crevice of society. Defines it, even.

The Universe is a beautiful place. The pursuit of truth and knowledge is a goal worthy of devoting my life to it. But people are fucking stupid. All of them. And unless they prove themselves worthy of respect, I hate each and every fucking one of them with every fiber of my being.

>>4309401
>he still believes in reality

reality, the last great religion

A good friend of mine jus commited suicide on friday night. Fuck man I miss u

>>4309417
method?

>>4309423

Holy shit. I think that this question is actually the most cold-hearted and emotionless thing I've ever heard...or seen...rather.

>>4309401
>>4309412
Pretty much these. Humanity itself is the only thing that depresses me.

Luckily, it looks like things are changing rapidly. Secularism continues to rise, so barring some extremist holy war (I'd actually be more concerned about the rhetoric in the US than in any Middle Eastern nation... some of that shit is downright SCARY), we should see a major shift in the balance in the next 50-100 years. We're pretty much just waiting for the current generation to die off, the next generation to pave the way, then the generation after that to largely embrace secularism.

>>4309412
>Getting angry at stupid people
>Solving the problem by permanently ending your life
That's a real... stupid... solution.

>>4309430
Well he's dead so obviously it was a successful method. It would be useful to know what it was so I could have another method under consideration.

>>4309321
I was really expecting a trollface at 10 femtometers.

I used to think about suicide all the time up to about a year ago, still do it but i don't feel any urge to go through with it anymore, I've learned to enjoy my shitty life

>>4309435
There is no solution

>>4309438

The point being that you're asking the guy whose friend killed himself less than a week ago.

all I can ever think about is different ways of killing myself, I have to say I've come up with some badass ways of ending it

>>4309449
I don't know why people are sad when someone commits suicide. They made the choice to do it. Their friends should be happy if anything. It's not like murder or accidental death.

>>4309438
If ur not trollin and really thinking bout doin this fu ckin talk to someone about. All of our friends r heartbroken and guilty because he didnt tell anyone yet fuckin told us everytime we saw him. the signs were their. The kid was the most outgoin kid around. Always had a smile and jus tryin to have a good time. Yet he was dying on the inside.

>>4309452
I have a psychiatrist who I see weekly. I will let my friends know this so they do not feel guilty.

I want to see the galatic core, from the galactic core, with my own eyes.
But if i have to (cancer in terminal phase, and no cure in sight), i guess i will blow myself in some mosquée.
Claiming doing it for Jesus and the local racist party, hoping to stir some shit.

>>4309451
>happy
Because someone felt so shitty that person decided to kill himself, besides we may not be sad for the person, but for our loss of that person.
everyone might not have been aware of how shitty the suicidee felt at the time and can be struck with sorrow or guilt for not realizing and helping. I doubt anyone is actually sad for the dead person in his dead state because, you know, he's dead and can't feel anything.

I think about suicide often. The only things that really stops me is fear that I wont find a method painless enough (and even if I do I'll muck it and be forced to live the rest of my life stigmatized and mentally/physically disabled) and that I'll have wasted my love of mathematics by dying during my degree program. I feel sort of confident that I'm going to graduate and then realise how purposeless my life is. I'll likely die at that time.

I used to, but not any longer. I'm pretty happy with my life and where it's going and the things I'm going to see. Men have died before me and will die after me, so I figure might as well make the most of it now. Unless of course I live long enough to get a cyborg body and can live for eternity. But if not, I'm fine with being part of the scientific progress that will define the future for many more to build upon

To the keymakers of /b/ that feel down and out.
you are not alone in your self doubt.
You'll find that your key doesn't fit any lock in the city.
but dont give up, For others are drawing the blueprints to your utopia believe me.
gatekeepers request certificates of approval for your obedience.
but all you have is the morality behind your life tenets.
They don't believe you can make a master key,
and most of the gatekeepers don't even know how a lock works.
they just follow orders, turn the knob and enjoy the perks.
But when you get inside
you'll realize it's just a prison ride
So i say to you, persevere.
Grab your grinding wheel, and endure your craft with no fear.

>>4309414
That's cute.