I'm Outside the Autistic Asylum!
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The crazy stuff I can't post anyplace else
Introduction to Wonko the Sane and Outside the Asylum, which this blog is named after.
I'm Outside the Autistic Asylum!
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The crazy stuff I can't post anyplace else
Introduction to Wonko the Sane and Outside the Asylum, which this blog is named after.
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I admit that it was selfishness that caused me to consider suicide. In that sense selfishness can lead to not physical and spiritual death. Jesus and the saints are good models of unselfishness.
Correction.
lead to BOTH physical and spiritual death.
What I haven't said yet, is that in the last month, we've had the 2nd suicide at age 21 of a young man in my family brought up with no particular push towards religion.
The first was a few years ago. Once again, this is an extended cousin that I had lost track of due to a generation gap (the first was a first cousin, but one of the last two born on that side of the family in the late 1980s, the second was a second cousin, oldest son of one of my favorite first cousins, but a family that struggles with extreme mental disabilities).
I do see their sudden leaving the world to be acts of selfishness, even when pushed by mental illness and going off of meds.
Religion does fill a void that atheism cannot. I was feeling a longing for the nothingness of not existing. But when I thought about the pain it would bring to my wife and then with her finding the note, I could see what a selfish act it would have been.
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