Ronnie James Dio sez, "It’s an Italian thing I got from my Grandmother called the Malocchio. It’s to ward off the Evil Eye." yeah, that's typically Italian, and typical of our Prime Minister. it is considered a rude, childish gesture. there he goes, the genius. http://www.toneoperi.alterv...

Lonesome Bulldog wrote:Relax gaetano. .

yeah, i definitely need the chilling out...and a holiday.
in August my hometown looks desolate like Mars in Dick's books, you know...

Too bad he was a speed freak and a Christian, although those things go hand-in-hand. Dick is just about the only modern Christian whose beliefs I could actually respect. The guy had a bunch of crazy experiences that he couldn't explain outside of a religious framework. The best fit he could find fo...

Ronnie James Dio sez, "It’s an Italian thing I got from my Grandmother called the Malocchio. It’s to ward off the Evil Eye." yeah, that's typically Italian, and typical of our Prime Minister. it is considered a rude, childish gesture. there he goes, the genius. http://www.toneoperi.alterv...

well, who knows, sometimes suicide can probably be a very quick decision. given certain circumstances someone can "snap" and do it. the victim doesn't see it coming, and also no one around him. ... also, suicide studies show that suicide, in most cases, is an act that the committer has pl...

TRIFECTA wrote:It's your life. Deal with your shitty life or don't.

a troll! that's so 2003...

No. Wait. I guess because so many people seem to be abstracting suicide off into the ozone, I ought to share something solid that I’ve experienced. There was a moment when I ready to kill myself. I'd sought help, but my efforts only seemed to result in angry calls from the psychologist’s office abo...

it bothers me a bit that Philip Dick is considered a "sci-fi" writer. i think of him as a philosopher, much like Dostojevski. a genius. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch just blows my mind. i'm currently reading his biography. very, very interesting stuff there. as Not Crap as can be!

suicide: not crap. those who think it is should try it before they mouth off about it. in all seriousness, you're only looking at it from one angle. the depressed take my own life angle. there's more than that. hunter s. thompson killed himself, i was ok with it. i'm not bothered by hemingway's eit...

I certainly don't mean to trivialize this man's death--or his life--but being "scared and horrified by the simple act of thinking" and committing suicide by fisting one's own mouth would seem to qualify him as a "loon." I would only agree if you included "incredibly frighte...