Recent content by JD1

Shermer has a real talent for making a point and then immediately undermining it. In one breath, he claims that uniformity in NDEs proves it's all neurological, because everyone's basic brain structure is the same. In the very next breath, he says that variation in NDEs proves it's all...

This is just my experience, but I spend so much time thinking about death because my life on Earth is effectively over, so all I have left is the possibility that there's somewhere else to go.

I apologize, but I'm not comfortable sharing my name. I hope it's enough for me to say that I do appreciate your concern and the sentiment that motivated you to ask for my name.

Not from my perspective. I've tried to talk to people about this before. All of them have completely dismissed everything I felt and thought. Much like what's happening here. A lot of my issues are physical. If I got a new life and a new body, I'd be fine. So they can go ahead and reincarnate...

I appreciate your acknowledgement that there even are unfixable situations that suicide is the only way out of. I've been talking to a few people over the past few days. The more I do, the more I become convinced that killing myself would be the right decision. The only alternatives anyone...

My problems are permanent. I am disabled in a way, I have unfixable physical problems, and my age can't be reversed. I honestly don't care if there are people who "love" me, and I don't think there are any such people anyway. My mother clearly wanted me to have a traditional marriage so she...

I've actually seen those videos before. The first one mentions that people don't commit suicide unless it had always been a "potential" for them, which they were aware of before they were born. Given that, I don't see why suicide should be judged harshly. The guy being interviewed in the...

Sorry I didn't reply sooner. I got a bit distracted by some other stuff (I was having a pretty serious episode when I posted the thread, so I kind of had to get distracted for a while). The short version is that, for various reasons, I was robbed of my youth, and I know with absolute certainty...

I'm curious, because I'm considering suicide. Well, actually, it's more like I'm hoping I can work up the courage to finally do it, because I already feel like it's what I should do. I figured I'd have a good chance of getting some informed opinions here.

That's a very sexist attitude. "Women aren't capable of that level of evil! Only men are that bad!"

What? Yes, I can say that the popular vote in the 2016 election went to the Democratic candidate. I can also say that the last time this situation occurred, it was once again the Democrat who won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College. We have two cases in very recent memory where the...

Pure speculation. I could just as easily say the same thing about Democratic voters. Maybe if we had a popular vote system, Democrats in Texas and other red states who would otherwise stay home on election day would go out and vote instead, because they would know their votes would actually...

There was a lot for me to disagree with in this episode. For one thing, I don't know how anyone can characterize Trump's "victory" as somehow being a blow against the establishment. Trump is more establishment than Clinton could ever hope to be, and he's filling his prospective cabinet with...

Well, you're quick to jump to the ad hominem attacks and assume the absolute worst about people, aren't you? Those are ways in which I consider myself to have what people usually consider a "feminine" personality. I could have discussed other things, like my dislike of body hair or my preferred...

I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to discover I'd been a woman in my most recent past life or even the majority of them. There are several significant aspects of my personality and sexuality that are very feminine, like the fact that I'm generally driven more by emotion than logic, or the...