At 31, I have just weeks to live. Here's what I want to pass on

Post by jcims » Mon, Sep 07, 2020, 6:57 PM UTC

Diesel555 wrote: post #228

jcims wrote: post #212

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My girls were raised Christian and I and my wife practiced and professed that faith our entire relationship. I haven't given up on the faith but I am so profoundly disappointed in the modern church that I need to go back to the root of it all and see how much it still resonates.

It sounds like you are disappointed in what people who are in the modern church, publicly speaking that you have access to, are saying. There will obviously be an availability bias on how we each perceive the "modern church". If you don't believe in what the Bible says, then disregard everything below. Try reading the Bible. As a whole. And if you have, do it again. Don't let individual versus taken out of context in…

Post by chunky1994 » Mon, Sep 07, 2020, 7:04 PM UTC

jcims wrote: post #149

My wife passed this year from cancer. Looking back we had no idea how close we were to the end, and in the last few weeks her beautiful mind was influenced by the disease. I’m sure someone on HN is going through this at least adjacently and my recommendation is to not wait to the end to have important conversations. For those that aren’t going through this now, maybe for a little while live life like you are...it mig…

Post by combatentropy » Mon, Sep 07, 2020, 7:13 PM UTC

jcims wrote: post #212

slivanes wrote: post #173

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Christian faith would have you believe it is God's will that you perish at His time of choosing. He also loves you.

My girls were raised Christian and I and my wife practiced and professed that faith our entire relationship. I haven't given up on the faith but I am so profoundly disappointed in the modern church that I need to go back to the root of it all and see how much it still resonates.

Post by sombremesa » Mon, Sep 07, 2020, 7:23 PM UTC

THE_PUN_STOPS wrote: post #130

sombremesa wrote: post #119

I'd like someone to explain to me why this is on the front page of HN. Personally, I didn't find any remarkable insight in the article and the author seems like quite an average person with average advice. My best guess is that people have upvoted this out of sympathy for a dying man, or perhaps they want to make space for discussing premature death. Which for me begs the question, exactly what is HN all about?

The ‘hacker’ ethos commonly involves sacrifice. In a zero sum life, striving to change the world, or achieve financial independence, or to learn new skills and abilities often means deferring relationships and emotions in favor of ‘work’, in the broadest definition of that word. I think a lot of people here have an anxiety about the regrets they may have if their life were to suddenly become very finite. The article…

Post by biolurker1 » Mon, Sep 07, 2020, 7:47 PM UTC

fipar wrote: post #214

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That's precisely why strict logic is required. You are putting more restrains into a very simple condition. Dead or infinitely small non zero chance of not dead. As said previously, anything else is noise

Respectfully, I disagree. I think the condition may be simple if looked at it from, say, a programming logic point of view. But given the costs involved, I think the other constraints are not noise: they're the signal needed to make the right decision. Specifically, since you brought this up in the context of someone who will die of cancer, the tradeoff calculation must take into account that even if cryonics work (w…