OT: Depressing Thought

Atrocities · #1 September 16th, 2004, 04:04 AM

I often think how nice it would be to be so well off financially that I had not a cash worry in the world. Then I look at poeple like Bill Gates and become depressed again. Here is the richest man alive, by all rights a man that can just about buy anything, and he is miserable and cannot even drive a car for fear of lawsuites. This just makes me think, if he, the richest man in the world can't be happy with all that money, then what hope is there for me?

Just some food for thought.

And thanks Will.

Raging Deadstar · #2 September 16th, 2004, 04:16 AM

Don't worry about it Atrocities, It always seems the bad stuff is so much easier to find in life and is more frequent, I guess it's because the good stuff always comes a little at a time.

If you feel the same at the end of today open up SEIV, Build a Baseship and glass an enemy homeworld, no matter how bad your day is I'm sure it sucks to be one of those 8000m people on there

And Happy Birthday Atrocities, or at least it says it's your birthday today

Hope you have a good one

Timstone · #3 September 16th, 2004, 06:44 AM

Happy birthday AT! May the days that follow this one be more happy than the ones you've seen now.
Here take a brewski, a piece of pie with the SE Hot Sauce and follow up the advise RD gave.

RD:
As usual you hit the nail on the head. I'm going to follow up your advise too.

Greybeard · #4 September 16th, 2004, 10:30 AM

Atrocities: We grow through our struggles. If everything was great and easy, we would all be soft and would not develop. Through our trials, we learn about ourselves and our abilities. If you consider those who have been through the most trials, such as orphans, you will see that overcoming lead to success.

You shoudl also consider something that can't be lost. If you find faith in Christ, you will have hope, and eternal life, which can't be taken from you.

Makinus · #5 September 16th, 2004, 10:49 AM

There is another thing you never can never lose: Murphy�s Laws...

Timstone · #6 September 16th, 2004, 10:51 AM

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Greybeard said:
If you find faith in Christ, you will have hope, and eternal life, which can't be taken from you.

Very well said, BUT, I really don't like that christ stuff. I was baptised and followed the christian faith for about 10 years, but soon after I discovered science and the convidense to believe in myself. After that I really had no need for a god anymore. I'm not trying to convert you or putting up a flamewar, but I'm still not very convertable with the need to believe in some sort of allpowerful figure. I can't really understand it anymore or I don't want to understand. Everything is explainable through science.
I think humanity will find worldpeace when they discard every god they believe in or have one faith only. Untill that day comes, humanity will fight amongst itself.

Sorry AT to ruin this birthdayparty with this little discussion. Have another brewski!

Ragnarok · #7 September 16th, 2004, 11:06 AM

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Atrocities said:
This just makes me think, if he, the richest man in the world can't be happy with all that money, then what hope is there for me?

Money never has been able to and never will be able to bring true happiness to anyone's life. It may bring contentment for a short time but in the end it does nothing but cause more problems.

There are a few scriptures I could quote you/give you to look up yourself but since things would end up turning towards religion and politics after that point I will refrain.

narf poit chez BOOM · #8 September 16th, 2004, 09:39 PM

Money = temptation for you and those around you. Temptation = possible loss of control. Loss of control = doing things you havn't thought about enough.

Atrocities · #9 September 16th, 2004, 10:47 PM

If I had boat loads of cash and never had to worry about money again, I would buy a mountain and fence it bugger in with a twelve foot tall, razor wired toped, fence with gun emplacements every fifty yards.

J/K, I would have no gun emplacements, just fortified camera's.

I would then build a modest home, and have trails cut into the moutain for my hiking, biking, quading pleasure. I would of course go out of my way to preserve wild life habitat and such.

Renegade 13 · #10 September 17th, 2004, 12:19 AM

Well, I think everyone in the world has felt how you feel at some point in their life. However, I'm sure that whoever you are, and whatever you have, on some day's you'd feel like you'd lost some stuff worth having. And perhaps you have. But you have to think of the stuff you do have. Life. Life is worth more than anything else in the world. And think, you have your friends here, many of them. And, if I may say so, there's lots of good people here, friends, who are worth more than truckloads of money.

Hang in there Atrocities, it'll get better I guarantee it.

Happy birthday!