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Man leaves behind 1905-page suicide note(the Harvard guy who killed himself on 09/18)
Economic Times ^ | 09/28/10

Posted on 10/01/2010 4:51:50 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

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To: TigerLikesRooster

0bamaCare was a 2000 page suicide note from the Democrats.


21 posted on 10/01/2010 5:07:02 AM PDT by counterpunch (End the Government Monopoly!)
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To: circlecity
"This is always the ultimate conclusion to sincere atheism. The atheist, existentialist Camus acknowledged the inevitable nihilism which atheism leads to leaves only one real philosophical question - 'why continue to go on living?'"

"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?"

- Unweaving The Rainbow, 1998.

22 posted on 10/01/2010 5:07:57 AM PDT by James C. Bennett
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To: James C. Bennett

Nonsense of course.


23 posted on 10/01/2010 5:09:43 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Dems, believing they cannot be deceived, it's nye impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
A 1900 page suicide note??? Talk about narcissism!
24 posted on 10/01/2010 5:14:58 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (''I don't regret setting bombs,I feel we didn't do enough.'' ->Bill Ayers,Hussein's mentor,9/11/01)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Just as I suspected, boy wonder was insane.

Life is hard, it’s even harder when you’re stupid.

I make no apologies about my ambivalence. This pussy isn’t a pimple on the ass of a young American solder and thus he deserves zero attention.

TSgt


25 posted on 10/01/2010 5:16:21 AM PDT by TSgt (Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho - 44th and current President of the United States)
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To: circlecity
The atheist, existentialist Camus acknowledged the inevitable nihilism which atheism leads to leaves only one real philosophical question - “why continue to go on living?”

To be or not to be?
26 posted on 10/01/2010 5:19:11 AM PDT by Canedawg (...still not digging this tyranny thing.)
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To: Canedawg
To be or not to be?

The primary question to answer is are we transcendental beings or not.

27 posted on 10/01/2010 5:23:15 AM PDT by AU72
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To: TigerLikesRooster
He could have shortened his treatise....

_________________________________________________________

Dear Everyone -

Going to see if God is dead.....

Might be back.....

Might not....

The Nihilist

28 posted on 10/01/2010 5:23:27 AM PDT by BossLady (How do we solve a problem like...Obama......???)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+1&version=NIV

Ecclesiastes 1 (New International Version)

Ecclesiastes 1

Everything Is Meaningless
 1 The words of the Teacher, [a] son of David, king in Jerusalem:

 2 "Meaningless! Meaningless!"
       says the Teacher.
       "Utterly meaningless!
       Everything is meaningless."

 3 What does man gain from all his labor
       at which he toils under the sun?

 4 Generations come and generations go,
       but the earth remains forever.

 5 The sun rises and the sun sets,
       and hurries back to where it rises.

 6 The wind blows to the south
       and turns to the north;
       round and round it goes,
       ever returning on its course.

 7 All streams flow into the sea,
       yet the sea is never full.
       To the place the streams come from,
       there they return again.

 8 All things are wearisome,
       more than one can say.
       The eye never has enough of seeing,
       nor the ear its fill of hearing.

 9 What has been will be again,
       what has been done will be done again;
       there is nothing new under the sun.

 10 Is there anything of which one can say,
       "Look! This is something new"?
       It was here already, long ago;
       it was here before our time.

 11 There is no remembrance of men of old,
       and even those who are yet to come
       will not be remembered
       by those who follow.


29 posted on 10/01/2010 5:24:00 AM PDT by FReepaholic (Yoiks...and away!!)
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To: Diamond

“I know it’s meaningless, but how does one send a “posthumous e-mail”?”

To him everything is meaningless.
I want to study this “note” because I think if you become intellectually immersed in Nietzsche, Marx, etc. you will eventually submit to insanity. “The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom”, to deny God is the beginning of insanity.


30 posted on 10/01/2010 5:28:57 AM PDT by vanilla swirl (We are the Patrick Henry we have been waiting for!)
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To: counterpunch
0bamaCare was a 2000 page suicide note from the Democrats.

That is profound. That needs to be on billboards and bumper stickers.

31 posted on 10/01/2010 5:34:37 AM PDT by Drawsing (The fool shows his annoyance at once. The prudent man overlooks an insult. (Proverbs 12:16))
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To: TigerLikesRooster
"Man leaves behind 1905-page suicide note..."

Why don't we ever see an Opus like that here on FreeRepublic?

32 posted on 10/01/2010 5:36:06 AM PDT by BlueLancer (I'm getting a fine tootsy-frootsying right here...)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
His family and about 400 friends received the 1,905-page suicide note in a posthumous e-mail.

Wouldn't that freeze up the servers at their ISPs? Receiving big files is always a pain for me.

33 posted on 10/01/2010 5:37:08 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Beware of the owrk!)
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To: circlecity

But Camus also realized that meaninglessness, far from engendering despair, provided the ultimate liberation. If life is meaningless, then the very purpose of living becomes to assign it whatever meaning we want!

See “The Myth of Sisyphus.”


34 posted on 10/01/2010 5:39:40 AM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Carved beneath the typical information on his headstone, perhaps to reflect on a final irony, should be the simple annotation:

“tl;dr”


35 posted on 10/01/2010 5:45:58 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: TigerLikesRooster

The ultimate opus!!!


36 posted on 10/01/2010 5:46:34 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("It's amazing, A man who has such large ears could be so tone deaf" Rush Limbaugh 9/8/10)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Heisman wrote, "Every word, every thought and every emotion come back to one core problem: life is meaningless...

I am always sorrowful when a seemingly intelligent person is unable to come to a rational conclusion about anything in life because they make relatively simple things complex through conceited imagination.

Mr. Heisman, maybe your life was meaningless because you filled it with meaningless pursuits ... whereas we stupid dumb slaves of Jesus Christ live each day with meaning and purpose; even when the day brings calamity or trouble.

The loss of one life is heartbreaking to God ... what could have been eternal joy for this individual ... is now eternal loss which will never be satisfied.

Imagine the horror of this person, who decided to take his life in some grand intellectual experiment to prove the meaningless of life ... is now, at this very moment ... still alive ... but completely and utterly ... without hope.

Lets us all that name the name of Jesus Christ pray for this mans family; that they would not be as foolish.

37 posted on 10/01/2010 5:48:29 AM PDT by dartuser
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To: TigerLikesRooster

A M F


38 posted on 10/01/2010 6:05:35 AM PDT by Check6 (United States of Moronia: A nation of morons ruled by a gang of communist thugs.)
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A M F


39 posted on 10/01/2010 6:05:39 AM PDT by Check6 (United States of Moronia: A nation of morons ruled by a gang of communist thugs.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

40 posted on 10/01/2010 6:10:50 AM PDT by The Comedian (Guns, Gold, Food - The guy with the guns ends up with all the gold and food.)
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