March 14, 2004

You’re Depressed? That’s SO COOL!

I really dont know why, but I find it rather funny (and sometimes incredibly funny) when someone, myself included, writes something in their diary that is dark and depressing and all-around not fun and it gets happy notes.

Happy notes are the ones where you know people are sitting there reading diaries and they read something and are like, Oh my! That is SOOOoo good! Then they leave a note to that effect.

Being as how Im a note-whore and like getting notes, I really dont care if people write me happy notes. Like I said though, I just find it a bit strange.

In other news

Has anyone out in internet land ever seen a suicidal animal? Have you ever seen a monkey at the zoo try to hang itself? Or maybe a gopher that keeps trying to get run over by a car? Or perhaps a dolphin that refuses to come up for air?

I was thinking about this today because there really are a lot of people who are depressed and a lot of people who kill themselves. Yet we human beings, being the grand homo sapiens that we are, consider ourselves the most intellectually developed of all creatures. And we are the only ones who take ourselves out.

Am I the only one who finds this a bit strange?

We are the ones who have the ability to think about the most things. We are the ones who consider ourselves kings of our domain. Youd think that being as smart as we are might give us an advantage over all the other critters that occupy our planet.

Maybe mental ascension isnt all that great. Maybe the fact that we know more IS the reason for all that. Perhaps we are privy to some information that drives people to self-destruct.

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Were on a bullet and were headed straight into God
Maybe hed like to end it too.
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Marilyn Manson

Just the fact that we are smart enough to realize we’re alive is what makes it so easy for us to end everything… Animals don’t really have that understanding, but they also don’t have such stressful, confusing lives as us human beings…

Hmm you know, I’ve actually thoughht about that… well, I used fish as my example, because seriously, what do fish have to live for?XxBillyxX

the raconteur

March 15, 2004

I saw a beetle commit suicide once. He just stopped flying midair and crashed the fatal-for-a-bug distance to the ground. If a beetle can’t find enough to live for, what chance have we?

self awareness + too much thinking + too much analysis + consideration = realisation at the pathetic pointless nature of existence = you know what.

aesthetical

you’re right… i think it’s cause we desire more than the necessities of life… animals are for the most part satisfied with these while we on the otherhand need self fulfillment, love, happiness etc just my opinion… thanks for the note… and ive noticed the same thing about the notes and i do it too so it makes it ok i guess take care

.::.Face Down.::.

Yeah, I find that kinda funny,(I’m not a note whore though.. infact, I’m not any kind of whore. hehe) and I’ve often wondered if animals try to take themselves out too. But anyhow, Hope you get on soon…. cause I’m kinda bored sitting here alone.

Mercuria

Well, you’ve heard of lemmings, right? 😉

And there are pods of whales the beach themselves for no discernable reason. Who can say?

And furthermore, bees die after they sting, I wonder if they know this going into such an arrangement… 🙂 There, three notes, hope it was good for you. 😉

Myself, being a proud pothead, I often find myself pondering such questions. Only to realize I’ll never find the answers to the questions I ponder. Then I forget what the question was in the first place. Only to ponder it once more after I get stoned. It’s a vicious cycle.

Its said that only humans are capable of abstract thought. Maybe its the *very* abstract concept that we might be better off dead than alive that separates us from the other animals… I think only humans harbor the concept that there’s something better after death. Animals death with being eaten, which is definitely different. and not cool to boot.

angelflower

March 20, 2004

Hmmm….all i can say to this is…some animals get so depressed that they just stop moving..kind of like humans lying (is this spelled correctly?) in bed…and so they don’t eat or drink etc. and then eventually their heart stops breathing. This could be a form of suicide.

sooo I meant heart stops beating and well eventually they also stop breathing. Ha..I’m so tired.

Lorvaniel

March 27, 2004

Ooooh, you like Marilyn Manson. And The Death Song. I like you… I like your diary. You and I reflect on a lot of the same things. “The more that you fear us, the bigger we get.”

You might be on to something there. I think it’s because we have the capacity to feel, and to be hurt. But we also have the capacity to do good; to make others happy, to find personal fulfillment. Can be a double-edged sword. Suicide rates seem higher among people in their teens and twenties, before they’ve had a chance to figure out that being alive is an amazing gift. Even the bad parts.

But I did laugh out loud over the notion of a suicidal gopher, and unfortunately am now wiping coffee off my monitor. I think some of it came out my nose.