Showing posts with label suicide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label suicide. Show all posts

Sunday, May 27, 2018

Philosophy Wire: Does religion protect against suicide? But why? [The role of antiphasis in understanding]

Religious participation is linked to lower suicide rates in many parts of the world, including the United States and Russia, but does not protect against the risk of suicide in sections of Europe and Asia, according to new research. [1] Religion protecting against the possibility of a suicide. And yet it is religion which speaks about the afterlife and about how this life here on Earth is a mere “detail” when compared to the eternity of the soul’s existence. Religion speaks for the absence of death and yet it protects life as if death exists. Antiphasis is everywhere. Antithesis is part of everything real. Seek it. You may be baffled in the beginning. But from the fog of misunderstanding, a clearance of utter silence will emerge. It is there, in the middle of your darkest moment, where you will find the light…

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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Philosophy Wire: Genes, blood, free will, suicide...


Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-09-17]: A blood test could detect a genetic tendency toward suicide. [1] Soon enough we will know that everything is defined by genes. Because we WANT them to...

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Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Philosophy Wire: Suicides, cities, connections.


Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-04-08]: Suicide rates fall in big cities. [1] The research claims that this happens because the increased number of social connections makes it more difficult for a person to take his own life. I would say that the increased number of social connections makes us forget our self and, thus, the true meaning of life. It takes a true believer in life's value to deny it...

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Thursday, May 23, 2013

Philosophy Wire: Suicidal… disease!

54667403BC0AE2C461AF977B48ED6BFFPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-05-23]: Suicidal behaviour is a disease, psychiatrists argue. [source] You see in todays era every one who does not think like the "normal" majority does, is insane. Or ill... And with a scientific stamp.

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Sunday, May 22, 2011

Philosophy Wire: Suicide – A Right or an illegal behaviour?

2046354514_cebca20f0a_zPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-05-22]: Swiss citizens voted against a law proposal that aimed at the ban of assisted suicide, which is allows for years in the country [source: BBC News]. Is our life “our own” and we can do anything we want with it? Or is our life the “property” of society so we have to “ask” her before we do something? Difficult questions, difficult answers…

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