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Dichotomy

The Dichotomy Dilemma

by scarredkitty 8/29/2013

written by scarredkitty

So, suicide is a weird thing.

I don’t mean to offend anyone with the above statement so allow me to explain further.

Every day since it’s entered my brain that at some point whether in the near or later future, I will most certainly be ending my life, there has been a war inside my mind. Now, there has always been a war inside my mind. The devil and the angel on my shoulder..the good wolf and the bad wolf, we’ve all heard those examples and cliches, but all in all they sum it up. The good voice telling me I’m great and awesome and offer the […]

8/29/2013 4 comments

Emotional Experience

by orangish 11/26/2012

written by orangish

I’m trying to adopt a state of mind that centers around human experience; something realistic, rather than negative or positive. Something beyond that simplistic dichotomy. Emotions exist; sadness is no less real than happiness; happiness is no less real than sadness. Pain is no less real than pleasure, and vice versa, and what one might want to describe as “bad,” is not necessarily so. It simply is.

Maybe I should convert to Buddhism.

Anyone know any good monastic sects in the midwest United States?

That’s a joke, by the way. I dislike organized religion. I don’t enjoy having to accept uncertainty, but I dislike blind certainty just as […]

11/26/2012 10 comments