Featured Robin did it his way?!

Are you okay?

 

Oh I read the whole thing before I replied and knew you weren't talking about you. But I find it weird, to say the least, that a CHRISTIAN would state that he respects the decision of a man to take his life.

That's why I'll ask again if you're okay?

I think you're once again trying too hard to extol your own virtue and it's making you look a bit unhinged. What Christian says that he respects a person's decision to take his own life?

Who says nothing is impossible (implied with Jesus) and then calls it into question?

You SURE you're okay? Maybe it's time to go to sleep.

 

I don't think he's gone snip (at least on this particular issue). I understand the Dude's point of view on it.

 

I get that.
Before my lupus diagnosis, they were looking at Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
Having worked closely with Alzheimer's, and loving the work, I am extremely familiar with what it can entail for different people.
I know what my first thoughts were. What a lot of people with intimate knowledge map out. We saw the daily pain on the familis faces. The husband who came in to see his wife holding hands happily with a new "boyfriend" that day, kids being struck by a confused parent who didn't know who they were.
That may be the toughest part of thinking you have this. The families.

Then for you - you can't tell someone if you have a toothache, a stochache, a migraine, if you tripped and maybe broke something. You have to hope someone figures it out. And how can they? Sometimes they don't until the autopsy.

And sometimes people do relatively great and are are happy all the way through with no major issues. You never know.

But after knowing what I know, I find it very understandable that one would panic. Utterly panic and be overwhelmed.

 

I feel, since God gave me my life, he expects to be the one to take it. Suicide because of sickness is against God's word. The only suicide I MIGHT be ok with is a military person swallowing a cyanide capsule to keep secrets safe. Even that one is iffy.

Nowhere in scripture does a person of God kill themselves because of physical suffering. And there are plenty of references that tell us to trust him, when we have no hope at all of our suffering easing.


People are sad because a clown killed himself, and I get that. But he left a mess, financially, legally, and emotionally. What he did is not cool, at all. Parkinson's or not.

 

I did read your post, and you said you respected his decision.

You didn't say you understood it. You said you respected it. Now, if by "respect" you meant the above, might I suggest investment in a dictionary and thesaurus? It pays to enrich one's word power, especially of one who boasts of being an author.

 

In common use, Aaron, the word respect means the speaker finds some value in the other person's idea, opinion, thought, etc .
Given the context and that he wasn't writing formally, logic says he was using the common form of the word, sometimes referred to as slang.
There are dictionaries that show the expanded use of words, though this one is so normal that most grew up with it. Some with English as a second language might need it explained. If that's your situation, please try investing in an expanded dictionary. It helps a lot!

 

Common use maybe in Timbukthree.

 

:laugh: Seriously. I still don't get it even after the explanation. Man commits suicide. Christian man says I respect his decision. Just weird.

 

You have a difference of opinion, and I can respect that. Unfortunately, you'll have to go to Timbukthree to understand that concept.

 

Your grammar was not corrected. You used the word in a correct way. Oh, and lookie there. I DO teach this stuff. :laugh:

 

That's right. He said what he meant, and now is looking very foolish attempting to backpedal.

 

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