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<blockquote data-quote="DeusLuxMeaEst" data-source="post: 1241035" data-attributes="member: 892">Things like this happen because we have become spiritually bankrupt as a nation. Almost everybody is faking it. Sure you put on a good front, for the most part you keep yourself together. Maybe you have lots of income, popularity, and you indulge in your hedonistic pleasures. But those moments of real desperation and pain, you keep those all to yourself.We have entire threads on this forum about difficulty having real friendships with men we have things in common with. It's an epidemic and technology has made us more insular and divided than ever. Another surface solution of 'real connection.' All the instagram likes and thousands of FB friends can never replace true allies who will stick with you through thick and thin.I don't know the solution, but it starts with individuals. Most people are on thin ice. It's one thing to be moral because you fear the law, it's another because you've purified yourself spiritually. This woman made this sad decision because she felt cut off, alone, and wanted to end the pain. She had an emptiness inside from cultural forces and living in this modern time. There's a great piece by a punk rocker and ordained Zen monk. I'm paraphrasing here but he mentions how he once thought of suicide, but couldn't go through it. Then he realized conceptually that he had already killed the person he was. He didn't have to be bound by the past, he could be born again that day and live life in a new direction. It's an important lesson.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DeusLuxMeaEst, post: 1241035, member: 892"] Things like this happen because we have become spiritually bankrupt as a nation. Almost everybody is faking it. Sure you put on a good front, for the most part you keep yourself together. Maybe you have lots of income, popularity, and you indulge in your hedonistic pleasures. But those moments of real desperation and pain, you keep those all to yourself. We have entire threads on this forum about difficulty having real friendships with men we have things in common with. It's an epidemic and technology has made us more insular and divided than ever. Another surface solution of 'real connection.' All the instagram likes and thousands of FB friends can never replace true allies who will stick with you through thick and thin. I don't know the solution, but it starts with individuals. Most people are on thin ice. It's one thing to be moral because you fear the law, it's another because you've purified yourself spiritually. This woman made this sad decision because she felt cut off, alone, and wanted to end the pain. She had an emptiness inside from cultural forces and living in this modern time. There's a great piece by a punk rocker and ordained Zen monk. I'm paraphrasing here but he mentions how he once thought of suicide, but couldn't go through it. Then he realized conceptually that he had already killed the person he was. He didn't have to be bound by the past, he could be born again that day and live life in a new direction. It's an important lesson. [/QUOTE]

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