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    [–]Nohope 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

    with more life experience

    Because having existed for a few more years, which is called "life" experience, means older people are so smart /s

    If having more "life" experience meant being wiser and smarter, then the majority of adults wouldn't be religious, nor would they be following the mob like some robot that is programmed to be a certain way. That's not the case sadly, most adults are less intelligent than literal 12 year olds. I mean, at the age of 10 I knew that there's no such a thing as a "god" or a "soul", and wanted to go against the mob mentality

    While you see most adults following the herd with no questions asked, and popping out kids one after another in the name of their imaginary friend, just so they would brainwash them and increase the number of the adherents of their religion (that's the whole reason behind their "be fruitful and multiply", to increase their numbers in the most pathetic way possible. They know they can't increase their numbers via rational discussions, because their beliefs are nonsense. So they resort to becoming baby factories).

    They're less intelligent than a 10 year old.

    Just because older people existed longer, and worked boring jobs, doesn't make them smarter than those younger than them.

    And if you can't get this then you're just proving my point, eh.

    This isn't what my therapist tells me to do. Most of this advice is useless and shallow. And don't get me wrong, there are plenty of shitty therapists out there and I had to go through a couple to find the one I have now. She was the first one to diagnose me correctly and get at the root of everything.

    I guess it depends on the reasons why someone is depressed for instance. Someone could be depressed because they have financial issues, can't stand university because it's just not for them but their family makes them attend uni even if they don't want to, etc. Therapy for these people is useless, and a waste of time. They may talk and talk about their financial issues, their hating uni, etc, but after leaving the therapy sessions - the issues are still there as always and the therapists can do nothing to solve them, so there's no way to end the cycle of depression.

    For the depressed people who are bullied, in homophobic environments, etc, I don't see how therapy helps them when they are still bullied or in homophobic environments, only after the bullies are stopped, and they are given assistance to run away from their homophobic environments, the therapy could help them a bit.

    But I think the depressed and self-hating individuals should be willing to change and be helped first. No amount of therapy can help someone that does not want to be helped.

    Thank you

    😊

    Don't know how to feel about the new years, only 5 days left to 2021 and I wish the year wouldn't end so fast, time really flies 😩

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      [–]Nohope 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

      Because atheism has to do with basic intelligence, and the understanding of the burden of proof which is literally the core of logic and what the legal system of every country ever operates on (e.g. innocent until proven guilty, when there is no evidence, innocence is presumed because of the burden of proof). When there is no evidence, non-existence of "god" and "soul" is presumed and the default is disbelief because of the burden of proof. But religious people don't understand such a simple thing. They lack the basics of logic and intelligence.

      Someone with a ton of work experience believing in things that don't exist (e.g. "god", "soul", "after life") isn't actually smart or intelligent, if I ever saw a 40-50 year old "physicist" believing in santa caluse, fairies or whatever I would laugh at them and wouldn't be able to take them seriously anymore, same with people with a ton of "work experience" that believe in a "god", "soul" or whatever. And that's basically most adults.

      You were mocking me when you said "yes you are smarter and wiser than older people who have more "life" experience", you meant I'm not wiser than them, and my point was just because the older people have more "life" experience doesn't mean they are smart and bright, most of them are not smart, and one of the reasons is most of them are religious.

      Most people who dish out the money for therapy want to be helped. It's expensive and I have to pay for it out of my own pocket.

      Hope that's true.

      I love her more than myself and, even at my lowest point, I want to live for her sake. She wants to grow old with me, which means I need to stick around a while.

      I got to admit, this line makes a perfect nice romance novel. Two girls love each other, one is depressed, and wants to end it, but loves this other girl too much and goes on just because the other wants her to stay around for a bit longer.

      Really? This year was terrible. I can't wait for it to be over.

      Well I don't know about you, but I loved the pandemic. When I saw the fear on other people's faces, I just got my popcorn and watched the drama unfold.