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Nov. 20th, 2005 10:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Years ago, someone told me that children who died were the reincarnated souls of suicides, living out the remainder of the souls's life. And for years, this concept has annoyed me. I finally figured out why this morning in the laundromat (don't ask).
A child who dies is, for the sake of argument, presumably younger than 12. How many suicides are in their 60's and 70's? Aren't more of them in the teens, their twenties, their thirties? Wouldn't that mean that either A) a soul has to die multiple times as a child to "use up" all the extra years or B) the argument in fundamentally flawed?
Discuss.
A child who dies is, for the sake of argument, presumably younger than 12. How many suicides are in their 60's and 70's? Aren't more of them in the teens, their twenties, their thirties? Wouldn't that mean that either A) a soul has to die multiple times as a child to "use up" all the extra years or B) the argument in fundamentally flawed?
Discuss.
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Date: 2005-11-20 03:41 pm (UTC)It's just as stupid to say "my child died because God was angry at me"
Another reason why I thought the book of Job was beyond idiotic.
The concept of cosmos taking it's anger out on children, using children as a balance is ridiculous and I'm disgusted with anyone who thinks such things. They need to get out more and ...do things.
Not sit around and think up revolting scenarios to please their own conscious.
I have said my peace and counted to three.
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Date: 2005-11-20 03:42 pm (UTC)who knew!?
Perchance...
Date: 2005-11-20 03:47 pm (UTC)Or as Tom Lerher said - " When Mozart was my age, he'd been dead for three years..."
"Folks" needed a way to understand their world. In a world where real information was few and far between, they would make "science-through-observation" theories. To wit...
Supposition: Trees cause wind
Reasoning: When there is no wind, the trees do not move. When the trees move there is wind, hence...
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Date: 2005-11-20 03:50 pm (UTC)If you accept the assumptions:
However, I have an alternative solution for the suicide issue. What if suicides become the additional personalities for persons with multiple personalities? That would seem, to me, to adequately provide for the excess of conciousness floating around.
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Date: 2005-11-20 05:41 pm (UTC)Sounds like.
Did they offer a rationale? Living out the 'remainder of life' is rather insufficient. Plenty of people 'die before their time' - violently or otherwise - not just suicides.
Maybe suicides are people who've 'lived more than their time' and are consequently finding balance. There's no end of psycho theories available.
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Date: 2005-11-20 06:32 pm (UTC)Perhaps, as MR stated, it was used "way back" when people lived to 40 to help comfort those who were grieving.
But I think it is pure BS. Kids are born with different "malfunctions." Depending on what it is, when it is caught and other circunstances (like healthcare access) they live or die.
Go pessimism!
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Date: 2005-11-20 07:55 pm (UTC)doing laundry
Date: 2005-11-21 12:31 am (UTC)Re: doing laundry
Date: 2005-11-21 03:48 am (UTC)