Why cant i stop thinking?

Question

im insanely curious about whats beyond this form, beyond human limits, beyond greed, beyond jealousy and hate and corruption. I want to see it i want to skip this life. i keep thinkin about suicide and im only 15 and i have a whole "life" ahead of me.... why cant i turn off my brain?

Answer 1

You must first fully experience this life, there is no skipping ahead in terms of gaining understanding of the truth.  Your brain & mind is your primary tool, use it well.

Answer 2

uove said it ..a life ahead of u.

can u :

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

Answer 3

You sound very compassionate and intelligent.

Perhaps you are the next Confucious/Budha?

The Golden child the world has been so long since their death been waiting for,.

Man kind needs more people like you, especially in America where we are trying to over come such impossible hate.

Answer 4

Have you ever thought that maybe YOU are here to figure these things out?... Asking questions like that to me means that you are probably not any of those things. You sound like a seeker, someone who wants a better life detached from all the things you speak of. Dont you see that you would be doing the world a serious injustiuce by taking your life. The world needs more people like you. And that is what I gathered by reading just a few sentences. I think you would be doing yourself a serious injustice if you could turn off your brain. My suggestions is to read, read, read and than read some more. You will find the answers you are looking for, just search for the goodness in your life you will find it. Rememeber... You may just be the answer your are looking for.

Answer 5

Once your mind is expanded by a new thought, it can never return to its previous dimensions.  So instead of trying to forget what you know or what you think, try to add to it.  Try to see that the purpose of life is the small things that make people happy everyday.  

If you can put yourself in someone else's shoes when they are laughing or having a good time then maybe you can start to realize that what happens in the end (death) can not be helped or changed so you have to focus on the everyday pleasures.

Answer 6

Hi,

    Read this carefully, being curious about something unknown is good, but please ask yourself why you wish to know what is beyond this life?

I am not judging you but from your answer it looks like you are not happy with the way your life is going, and wish to end it so that you may find peace in the after life.

My friend, life never remains constant, its not always miserable, and you have only mentioned the bad things in life, look around, there is a lot of goodness as well, lot of beauty, love, warmth & kindness.

Even you can agree thats true!

So before you decide to end your life, just give it another chance and see what you can make of it, ask yourself what can you do to make your life better, do those things, see the changes for yourself.

Life is what you want it to be my friend, just like when you wear dark eye-glasses everything appears dark and when you wear rosy colored ones everything appears rosy, life is your perception.

If you improve the condition of your life you will feel the world is beautiful.

There is a great line from a Bob Marley song:

"If you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth!"

Answer 7

hmmm i say suicide is a bit drastic.

i say go to a physic, get a tarot reading they seriously take your thoughts out of your mind and tell you what to do about it and how to go about it.

plus its a whole new discovery which will lead you into reading books about life and what is beyond humans. It's like a new door opening for you.

i can give you 2 reasons why suicide wouldn'tnt help, 1: in an emotional sense, of coursese the people who love you wouldn'tnt want to lose you. and 2: a logical sense, just because some 'elementals' or a 'life form' may exist beyond human limitdoesn'tnt mean in would be in an afterlife.

  

Answer 8

I used to think like that too, but the problem is... what if there is nothing beyond this life? If that is true then you waste the only chance you have to explore you mind and see what its limits are. So I explored that option a little bit.

Good, Evil, and the After-Life

Before deciding what to do with my life I first had to determine the length of my existence and any possible repercussions of the decisions I make. Basically what I have done here is applied a logic tree to the possibility of life after death, heaven, h**l, etc…

It breaks down like this:

Option 1: If there is not life after death, then it really doesn’t make much difference what I do, what I decide, who I help, or who I hurt.

Option 2: If there is life after death, then perhaps there is some kind of judgment on whether I was a good or bad person. There may be a punishment and reward system (heaven/h**l).

Option 2a: If there is a judgment system then nobody knows what the criteria of good and bad is, and it is really up to me to decide what I think would get me a favorable review.

Option 2b: If there is not a judgment system then it really doesn’t make much difference if the things I do are helpful or hurtful because I will not be judged.

So after carefully looking at the possible outcomes it would stand to reason that Option 2a is the only scenario in which I should be concerned. If there is not a judgment system then no harm done. If there is a judgment system I would rather be on the good end.

So if I dig deeper into this possible situation this is where things start to get really confusing. If you take a look at 5 different religions you will get 5 different answers for what is right and wrong, good and bad, heaven and h**l material. Everyone can’t be right and nobody who is alive actually knows the answer. Since I am the one who would be judged, I think it stands to reason that I should be the one who decides what is right or wrong for my own future. It basically comes down to, if I am happy with the choices I make and live with no regret then I would expect a favorable result.

Getting the Stamp of Approval

If I have to determine what is right and wrong I have to have a basis for making those decisions. I could take the easy road out and just adopt some external value system like the 10 commandments, or just say whatever the government determines is legal is good.  Unfortunately taking the easy road out is not really an option if my existence in eternity depends on it. I think given the stakes it is best if I take the time to reason it out myself and determine what I believe to be important.

So if I put myself in the shoes of an almighty omnipotent being and took a look at my life to determine if I was good enough for eternal happiness what kind of criteria would I use to make that decision?

Tough question.

I think the first step in getting to an answer would be to rule out all those things that would not be important or practical.

Things that are not important to God

My plan here is to start crossing things off the list until all I’m left with are the things that might be important. The end result should be a pretty good guide for my set of values.

• Money

• Popularity

• Social status

• Education

• Material possessions

• Job title

• Physical appearance

That knocks off quite a bit of stuff that people spend a lot of time on. What it leaves me with is intangible things, which make a lot of sense given that you can’t really take any of these things with you.  Taking that to the next logical level we could further the list and say that God probably does not really care about too much of anything that we as human beings put value and time on.

The average human being lives to be about 75 years old. If you apply the workout concept to life the first 16 years or so would just be warming up and becoming a functional adult and the last 5-10 are kind of like a cool down getting ready for the big day. So basically we all have about 50 years +/- to show what we are made of.

So if God is just looking at our prime time activities and doesn’t care about all the things that people spend majority of their time on, what criteria would he use to make a decision?

With all the big ones crossed off I think the list would look something like this.

• Amount of positive difference made in the world

• Number of people whose lives were enriched by knowing you

• Your intentions when making decisions (selfish or holistic)

• Amount of spiritual growth (knowing yourself)

• How much you enjoyed the time you had

• How much you took advantage of opportunities presented to you

What if you mess it up?

Looking over the things that I think God would use for judgment I’m forced to ask the question of “what if I s***w it up?”. If you get one life and don’t measure up to the standard are you going to spend the rest of eternity suffering for your mistakes? I sure hope not! Perhaps this is where reincarnati

Answer 9

Yo whatever you do DONT KILL YOURSELF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ok and i guess you should see a therapist or something if its getting to out of hand. and i guess study alot about this.