This is terrible.
If you were a Government Employee, Illegal Alien, or a non-contributing Welfare Mooch, you would have had a free Ambulance in minutes, Free Emergency Room treatment, Free narcotics for the pain, and Free physical therapy for months after.
Isn't it weird how America does indeed have Universal Healthcare for everyone except people who pay taxes?
Thanks Charlie. It is a sad, but true story. Also, yes, it is weird how America does have universal health care for everybody except those that start to get their head above water. The strikingly strange thing about "Obama Care" was that it only pretended to give everybody affordable healthcare. The deductibles were so outrageous for the "affordable range" that you might as well not have had any healthcare in the first place. I think that I have described this in some detail already, so I would like to speak of something a bit more eye opening.
I love Alex's podcast and the Skeptiko forum because the rigorous intellectual work in the matters of consciousness; a most fascinating subject to me. I still recall the day that I busted my ankle on that ice, vividly. I knew something was terribly wrong and the pain was excruciating. However, what was more painful was the thought of not being able to provide for my wife. The realization that I was in a state with no family and no real friends, and no way to get out. The impending doom in the realization that I had to choose, and choose soon, will I keep my car or my apartment? Consciousness in these miserable states, to me, is just as fascinating as near death experience consciousness. Perhaps I would coin the phrase: Near Life Experience.
Thoughts of suicide are interesting to me. However, aren't they too good to be true? I mean, the thought such as this: "All I have to do is hang myself and all these problems will be over." For me, this is the same kind of thought that makes people play the lottery. We all know that we are not going to win. Yes, a scratch off might get you that thrill of getting 5 bucks back, but the power ball....never, not viable chance? I think that suicide is like playing the lottery. You believe that it will be the end of all your problems, but you secretly know that you are not going to win, in a deep, fundamental way. Maybe the Power Ball is like sure footed suicide. A good hanging or a bullet in the head. Perhaps scratch offs are like that slow suicide of drug abuse and sex addiction. The latter might get rid of your problems and life for a few moments, but you never get rid of them altogether. The former, on the other hand, certainly does get rid of your life....but it doesn't really get rid of you!
There really is no cure to hell in this life....and certainly, no vaccine. We must only learn triumph only through extreme effort?!?! Perhaps. - Or is it that we learn triumph from rest and repose? Maybe distance from others? Was it the wrong others that made us think this way? How is it that the right others are so seemingly right until they become the wrong others? Why purpose purpose? Life without fascination is worse than death, and death is not an escape.