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Be grateful you can walk!

Spiderman

Veteran Member
If you aren't in a miserable marriage, be grateful, many are!

If you can walk, be grateful, many are in wheelchairs.

If you have two hands, be grateful, many don't.

Can you hear, be grateful, many are deaf.

Can you see? Be grateful, many are blind.

I just heard from someone else here about a man named David who was abused in the worst possible ways, and he doused himself in gasoline in a suicide attempt, and lit himself on fire and survived , and is going through burn treatment. Please pray for him.

Many people do not have your abilities or have it far FAR worse than you. Be grateful for what you have and try to make the best of it and be diligent with it, right?

Thoughts?
 

Lain

Well-Known Member
If you aren't in a miserable marriage, be grateful, many are!

If you can walk, be grateful, many are in wheelchairs.

If you have two hands, be grateful, many don't.

Can you hear, be grateful, many are deaf.

Can you see? Be grateful, many are blind.

I just heard from someone else here about a man named David who was abused in the worst possible ways, and he doused himself in gasoline in a suicide attempt, and lit himself on fire and survived , and is going through burn treatment. Please pray for him.

Many people do not have your abilities or have it far FAR worse than you. Be grateful for what you have and try to make the best of it and be diligent with it, right?

Thoughts?

That is something I like to think about, for it perpetually can be worse and more miserable for us but thankfully it is not. There are gifts others have that I don't but I alone am able to enjoy what gifts I alone have, and so that is a blessing enough.
 

Suave

Simulated character
If you aren't in a miserable marriage, be grateful, many are!

If you can walk, be grateful, many are in wheelchairs.

If you have two hands, be grateful, many don't.

Can you hear, be grateful, many are deaf.

Can you see? Be grateful, many are blind.

I just heard from someone else here about a man named David who was abused in the worst possible ways, and he doused himself in gasoline in a suicide attempt, and lit himself on fire and survived , and is going through burn treatment. Please pray for him.

Many people do not have your abilities or have it far FAR worse than you. Be grateful for what you have and try to make the best of it and be diligent with it, right?

Thoughts?

A friend of mine had pulled a badly injured person out of a burning car. Most everybody considered my friend to be a hero for saving somebody's life. However, the burn victim survivor was not grateful my friend saved his life. He would have rather died than live with burn scars over half his body and facial deformities. So honestly, I'm not so sure this suicidal burn victim would rather still be alive with his scars and deformities or if he would rather be in a better place.
 

VoidCat

Pronouns: he/him/they/them
This kind of thing makes me feel like my problems are being minimalized by saying oh others have it worse be grateful. Yeah sure I can say oh at least I have 2 hands. But I have a lot of issues. Me saying oh just be grateful is not going to cure me of mental illness. Sure it's great to be grateful but many say this same kind of stuff to tell me oh my problems arent that bad. Get over it. Just be grateful. That's not what you are trying to convey but that's what it reminds me of.
Telling people this kind of thing reminds me of all the times I ignored my problems cuz they weren't all that bad I should just be grateful folks have it worse. Doing so just made my own problems worse.
 

Spirit of Light

Be who ever you want
If you aren't in a miserable marriage, be grateful, many are!

If you can walk, be grateful, many are in wheelchairs.

If you have two hands, be grateful, many don't.

Can you hear, be grateful, many are deaf.

Can you see? Be grateful, many are blind.

I just heard from someone else here about a man named David who was abused in the worst possible ways, and he doused himself in gasoline in a suicide attempt, and lit himself on fire and survived , and is going through burn treatment. Please pray for him.

Many people do not have your abilities or have it far FAR worse than you. Be grateful for what you have and try to make the best of it and be diligent with it, right?

Thoughts?
I am greatful I wake up every morning.
 

Suave

Simulated character
Be grateful that human chosen science hasn't destroyed life yet...but they sure are trying.

I'm actually grateful for medical science making possible the surgery that mended my injured ankle, this surgery saving me from being permanently crippled.

Could you please elaborate further about the "human chosen" science you suspect is trying to destroy life?
 

rational experiences

Veteran Member
I'm actually grateful for medical science making possible the surgery that mended my injured ankle, this surgery saving me from being permanently crippled.

Could you please elaborate further about the "human chosen" science you suspect is trying to destroy life?
Humans medical biological human self present science was always correct.

About human healing.

Machine science was applied for and only about machine conditions was occult science. Who try to.persuade humans we are part bio mechanical just because men designed built used controlled the machine by human thinking.

The machines of the past destroyed all life on earth....Satanism.
Modern day heard old man's machines science studied re theoried repracticed mutated life.

The reason we still live today ice the saviour never existed on earth in origin machine destruction.

Ice is melting. Surely you can think for yourself?
 

Suave

Simulated character
Humans medical biological human self present science was always correct.

About human healing.

Machine science was applied for and only about machine conditions was occult science. Who try to.persuade humans we are part bio mechanical just because men designed built used controlled the machine by human thinking.

The machines of the past destroyed all life on earth....Satanism.
Modern day heard old man's machines science studied re theoried repracticed mutated life.

The reason we still live today ice the saviour never existed on earth in origin machine destruction.

Ice is melting. Surely you can think for yourself?

I respectfully disagree with the notion of science trying to destroy life. I consider science as the pursuit and gain of knowledge. The application of scientific discoveries have led to inventions and technologies more often than not improving the quality of human life as well as increasing human life expectancy.
 

Aupmanyav

Be your own guru
True, we should be thankful to chance. Sorry to hear about David. I have never seen praying to be of any help. Did it help during the Covid days? It is a placebo pill.
 

Alienistic

Anti-conformity
It doesn’t make sense for me to be grateful or thankful for food, health, safety, etc. when many others (not to their errors) do not have the same.
 

Spiderman

Veteran Member
A friend of mine had pulled a badly injured person out of a burning car. Most everybody considered my friend to be a hero for saving somebody's life. However, the burn victim survivor was not grateful my friend saved his life. He would have rather died than live with burn scars over half his body and facial deformities. So honestly, I'm not so sure this suicidal burn victim would rather still be alive with his scars and deformities or if he would rather be in a better place.
OH Im not saying it's good he survived the attempt or that he prefers surviving.

I am not grateful I survived my jump off a building. I'm saying that the guy has it really bad and I asked for prayers for him.

I also used that as an example that others have it worse.
 

Spiderman

Veteran Member
This kind of thing makes me feel like my problems are being minimalized by saying oh others have it worse be grateful. Yeah sure I can say oh at least I have 2 hands. But I have a lot of issues. Me saying oh just be grateful is not going to cure me of mental illness. Sure it's great to be grateful but many say this same kind of stuff to tell me oh my problems arent that bad. Get over it. Just be grateful. That's not what you are trying to convey but that's what it reminds me of.
Telling people this kind of thing reminds me of all the times I ignored my problems cuz they weren't all that bad I should just be grateful folks have it worse. Doing so just made my own problems worse.

Im trying to be grateful and be diligent with what I have.

My first hospitalization for being suicidal was age ten. I'm also physically disabled from my last suicide attempt.

I'm just trying to remind myself to be grateful for what I have. I also have gifts others wish they had and I should be diligent using them for good rather than bad.

That was the purpose of the OP and what I was trying to say.

I fell from a high enough distance, I could have easily been paralyzed for the rest of my life. So I should be grateful I can walk. Right?
 

VoidCat

Pronouns: he/him/they/them
Im trying to be grateful and be diligent with what I have.

My first hospitalization for being suicidal was age ten. I'm also physically disabled from my last suicide attempt.

I'm just trying to remind myself to be grateful for what I have. I also have gifts others wish they had and I should be diligent using them for good rather than bad.

That was the purpose of the OP and what I was trying to say.

I fell from a high enough distance, I could have easily been paralyzed for the rest of my life. So I should be grateful I can walk. Right?
Yes being grateful is a good thing. Like I said I knew that's not what you intended its just that's what it reminded me of.
 
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