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Old Dec 22, 2011, 11:57 AM
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Originally Posted by SunnyD View Post
That is exactly what the depression told me. I a believer for over 20 years. Medicated it isn't an issue.
This is a significant statement. It is my belief that the thoughts of self anger, sense of a desire to "not" survive as we are so designed to do, is a clear signal that somehow we know something is wrong, impeding self progress.

By design we are given these feelings of failure, even self punishing thoughts, to aide in our decision to ask "why" and have an extreme desire to find answers to our questions. There is also a very fine line in that we are also designed to recognize that we may be losing that fight for survival, for example if we are attacked by a bear and at some point we recognize that the bear is truely going to win the battle. I think all living things have this sense.

But we must also realize that we are also given a very strong sense of survival, for example there have been many stories of those who, by sheer will, survived events that brought them to a serious line of losing thier life.

When we ask questions like the one that is being asked here, it is very important to understand that this question means "we need to truely find answers for survival and vow to find answers".

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