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Originally Posted by DechanDawa
This thread gossipy? I don't see it. I did talk it out with Amicus privately and I don't think there is any problem although his dire physical condition is concerning.
I don't really have anything more to add to this thread. My participation and attention has clarified for me that although I might feel depressed I am not nihilisitc...and that has value for me.
I do feel that there is meaning in suffering (i.e. depression) and I am not alone in that. Viktor Frankl built an entire psychotherapeutic model on this belief.
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DD,
You make us all more thoughtful. Can’t that be reason enough (within the myriad of other reasons) to continue participating in this thread?
I don’t want to speak for Michael, but I believe that his use of ‘gossipy’ might be based upon a previous observance: that this thread has become ‘the talk of PC,’ as in ‘the talk of the town.’
Please don’t be concerned about my physical ailments! Celebrate, with me, this human process! Fight the good fight with me, alongside me! Prepare my laurel as I race towards the finish line! Known that, in my own way, I’ve kept the faith!
Allow me, in turn, to empathize with your depression, to cautiously explore your rejection of Nihilism and to give further thought to meaning in suffering.
I can happily say, for instance, that I’m finding so much joy in the love, friendship, laughter and kindness of others and that means so very much to me.