I once heard a psychiatrist explain suicide as the ultimate act of self-preservation.
Counter-intuitive as that sounds, he went on to explain why.
When all you value in life is threatened you do whatever desperate act that will preserve that value.
A person who commits suicide stops the process that contains the threat by intervention.
Sort of like this: "You can't fire me--I quit!" This preserves one's dignity and autonomy in the face of an insuperable event.
In the book THE ENGLISH PATIENT the burned man takes all of his pain medication at once. It is an elective process that preserves his autonomy over suffering and slow death.
FAITH is a form of suicide.
Why?
You will yourself into destroying your only access to reality. You KILL your rational mind.
This leaves you with a superstitious mind. The superstitious mind grants you the ultimate (imagined) value: LIFE without death.
If you don't believe Faith is rational suicide just try having a rational conversation with a true believer!
They will twist and turn and tie logic in a knot wiggling away from facing any fact which destroys their fundamental delusion!
When the rational mind dies the self dies with it.
SUICIDE is killing your "self."
How do we know a person of FAITH and BELIEF has killed their "self"?
They will smile while telling you how they are worthless sinners and corrupt wretches from birth who are willing slaves to faith.
A SELF without value is no self at all.
Baptism is burial of the "old self". A ritual that celebrates the suicide of the self is further proof of the delusion.
Jehovah's Witnesses celebrate and rejoice in HAVING NO MIND OF THEIR OWN. They cannot think for themselves because it is an act of DISLOYALTY. To whom? The substitute "self", the Governing Body which is a parasite replacing their identity.
The COLLECTIVE "self" can only replace the actual self by suicide in embracing FAITH over rational access to reality.
