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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (80011)	5/25/2000 10:56:00 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

<<(Only if you accept the doctrine that suicide is penalized in the hereafter.)>> We are gapping a bit. This doctrine you speak of is so far removed that it is almost beside the point. <<...does that change?>>Yes it changes and it changes in a wholistic way. Essential elements of the purpose of life have to do with caring for my soul. I know that temperal life is a test and full of mini-tests. I am obligated to care for other creatures. I also must love for other humans what I love for myself. I am required to serve the principles of righteousness. Where I am weak, I am also aware of failing mankind, other creatures, and my soul. Suicide is simply throwing in the towel. Its saying "stop the planet, I want off." I believe that in the eternal sense of the word there is absolute and perfect justice. Struggling through the circumstances of life when they are terrible as well as when they are rewarding is part of the eternal wrench. Suicide short circuits all of that by denying that existence has purpose, both in the now and in the here after. I am not against making a decision to die. If there is a just cause that is furthered by giving my life, then I freely give it. I see a big difference and the difference has to do with purpose.