Posted on 10/01/2010 4:51:50 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
28 Sep, 2010, 10.15AM IST,PTI
Man leaves behind 1905-page suicide note
shot himself at Harvard Yard on September 18.
His family and about 400 friends received the 1,905-page suicide note in a posthumous e-mail.
In the note Heisman wrote that he took his life as part of a philosophical exploration he called "an experiment in nihilism."
The lengthy document included 1,433 footnotes, a 20-page bibliography, over 1,700 references to God and 200 references to the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
Heisman wrote, "Every word, every thought and every emotion come back to one core problem: life is meaningless... The experiment in nihilism is to seek out and expose every illusion and every myth, wherever it may lead, no matter what, even if it kills us."
(Excerpt) Read more at economictimes.indiatimes.com ...
0bamaCare was a 2000 page suicide note from the Democrats.
"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.
Nonsense of course.
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
The primary question to answer is are we transcendental beings or not.
_________________________________________________________
Dear Everyone -
Going to see if God is dead.....
Might be back.....
Might not....
The Nihilist
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.
“I know its 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.
That is profound. That needs to be on billboards and bumper stickers.
Why don't we ever see an Opus like that here on FreeRepublic?
Wouldn't that freeze up the servers at their ISPs? Receiving big files is always a pain for me.
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.”
Carved beneath the typical information on his headstone, perhaps to reflect on a final irony, should be the simple annotation:
“tl;dr”
The ultimate opus!!!
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.
A M F
A M F
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