Brilliant pupil's 'logical' suicide

ClearView · Post by **ClearView** » January 1st, 2013, 6:10 am

lavezzi wrote: Suffering occurs due to ignorance, not brilliance.

You summed it up in far less words that I.

C.J. · Post by **C.J.** » January 1st, 2013, 7:31 am

HA! If this person was as smart as people thought, he'd continue to live his life, as folks like him would be respected and valued in the next couple decades, and he would be smart enough to make himself rich until then. It takes guts to live ANY kind of life though, even the unlife, as the bowels of hell can be quite scary to the living.

Clearly though, he wasn't very smart at all. He was just the type of person whose treated unfairly in life ON PURPOSE. These people are driven to hell, so they cannot change the whole world, or even theirs. And based on who's watching them(in this case, the British royalty), this possibility can be taken and used for someone else's purposes. The unseen force that control everyone's lives are quite malevolent.

jboy · Post by **jboy** » January 1st, 2013, 8:43 am

The only brilliant and honorable way to die is to die fighting.

Maybe the brilliance in this guy's thought is that by committing suicide while young, he has taken faulty individual such as him out of the gene pool, in that case, he is brilliant. Any other reason that is not based on betterment of mankind is pathetic imho.

Ghost · Post by **Ghost** » January 1st, 2013, 8:50 am

abcdavid01 · Post by **abcdavid01** » January 1st, 2013, 9:41 am

Accumulation of knowledge is a weight on one's back. Ignorance and accumulation are both not ideal. The answer is refinement.

Oppenheimer was often suicidal.

Post by **Winston** » January 1st, 2013, 9:48 am

What were the reasons he listed in his diary that made life not worth living?

The advantage of being a narcissist is that you are much less likely to commit suicide than a non-narcissist.

dram · Post by **dram** » January 2nd, 2013, 2:24 am

This guy killed himself because of ignorance not out of brilliance.

abcdavid01 · Post by **abcdavid01** » January 2nd, 2013, 9:39 am

Alright, keep believing that because it makes your life tolerable. I'll ask the hard questions.

Billy · Post by **Billy** » January 2nd, 2013, 3:03 pm

abcdavid01 wrote:Alright, keep believing that because it makes your life tolerable. I'll ask the hard questions.

word.

yes, being commanded like a slave. working your ass off. keep yourself under cover to not be a target for thugs, killings and murder are just beatiful ornaments which make our life more colorful.

expatasiaseeker · Post by **expatasiaseeker** » January 2nd, 2013, 10:49 pm

I think someone sacrificed his ass to Satan when he wasn't looking!!!!!!!!!!!

C.J. · Post by **C.J.** » January 3rd, 2013, 4:37 am

expatasiaseeker wrote:I think someone sacrificed his a** to Satan when he wasn't looking!!

LMAO That's hilarious!

And probably true.

Billy · Post by **Billy** » January 6th, 2013, 3:28 am

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Why trying to kill yourself may be a smart business decision.

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When Kirk Jones jumped over the guardrail at Niagara Falls last week and fell 180 feet alongside 150,000 gallons per second of rushing water, traditional explanations for his leap were plentiful. Jones' parents said he had lost his job and was depressed. A suicide expert pointed out the appeal of dramatic farewells. And everyone called the jump suicidal: Jones is the first person to survive a Niagara fall without safety gear.

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