Re: Very Very Satisfied
You did attempt to find out? And you confirm there is none on this subject.....
I am not going to spoon-feed you with a copy of the report, and in any event, I don't think you are not really interested in the subject. Nonetheless, I felt I owe readers what I have said and to support what I have said, I am reproducing an excerpt of a study done by seven medical professionals and they all carried credential like M.D. or PhD. They are real scientists...unlike what we see here in this forum. Their findings were published in the Amercian Journal of Psycharists. The following are excerpts of their findings....please don't bad-mouth them. They have no religious affiliations. They are secular doctors and this paper was published with no connection whatsoever with any religious organization.
RESULTS:
Religiously unaffiliated subjects had significantly more lifetime suicide attempts and more first-degree relatives who committed suicide than subjects who endorsed a religious affiliation. Unaffiliated subjects were younger, less often married, less often had children, and had less contact with family members. Furthermore, subjects with no religious affiliation perceived fewer reasons for living, particularly fewer moral objections to suicide. In terms of clinical characteristics, religiously unaffiliated subjects had more lifetime impulsivity, aggression, and past substance use disorder. No differences in the level of subjective and objective depression, hopelessness, or stressful life events were found.
CONCLUSIONS:
Religious affiliation is associated with less suicidal behavior in depressed inpatients. After other factors were controlled, it was found that greater moral objections to suicide and lower aggression level in religiously affiliated subjects may function as protective factors against suicide attempts. Further study about the influence of religious affiliation on aggressive behavior and how moral objections can reduce the probability of acting on suicidal thoughts may offer new therapeutic strategies in suicide prevention.
Note from Psalm23:
It is interesting to note of what the results shown. People who have no religion seem to have lost the meaning of living. They are living in the state of hopelessness and despair. This is what happens when people keep thinking that they are mere descendants of apes, chimpanzees, monkeys whatever. But if you sincerely believe that we are created in God's image with an absolute and sure hope of eternal life free from all our worldly strives, no matter how difficult our situation, you see have great meaning in your existence.
Living a life that matter is a choice. Prayerfully, the following poem (sorry, composer unknown to me) and the word of God could really give you some real courage to take on our walk on earth.
quote your source, where you get this statistic from. which group did it, sample size, target, and culture, and its standard deviation.
i went and check i cannot find a single peered review paper on this. few talk cock website did mention this without any sources on where this statistic is from (in another word making it up from thin air).
Dear Scientist (????) Rojak,
SOURCE!? Is you want to play statistic one ar, come loh, show me i go analysis the result. i dun mind spend 1 hr study the methodology of the paper
You did attempt to find out? And you confirm there is none on this subject.....
I am not going to spoon-feed you with a copy of the report, and in any event, I don't think you are not really interested in the subject. Nonetheless, I felt I owe readers what I have said and to support what I have said, I am reproducing an excerpt of a study done by seven medical professionals and they all carried credential like M.D. or PhD. They are real scientists...unlike what we see here in this forum. Their findings were published in the Amercian Journal of Psycharists. The following are excerpts of their findings....please don't bad-mouth them. They have no religious affiliations. They are secular doctors and this paper was published with no connection whatsoever with any religious organization.
RESULTS:
Religiously unaffiliated subjects had significantly more lifetime suicide attempts and more first-degree relatives who committed suicide than subjects who endorsed a religious affiliation. Unaffiliated subjects were younger, less often married, less often had children, and had less contact with family members. Furthermore, subjects with no religious affiliation perceived fewer reasons for living, particularly fewer moral objections to suicide. In terms of clinical characteristics, religiously unaffiliated subjects had more lifetime impulsivity, aggression, and past substance use disorder. No differences in the level of subjective and objective depression, hopelessness, or stressful life events were found.
CONCLUSIONS:
Religious affiliation is associated with less suicidal behavior in depressed inpatients. After other factors were controlled, it was found that greater moral objections to suicide and lower aggression level in religiously affiliated subjects may function as protective factors against suicide attempts. Further study about the influence of religious affiliation on aggressive behavior and how moral objections can reduce the probability of acting on suicidal thoughts may offer new therapeutic strategies in suicide prevention.
Note from Psalm23:
It is interesting to note of what the results shown. People who have no religion seem to have lost the meaning of living. They are living in the state of hopelessness and despair. This is what happens when people keep thinking that they are mere descendants of apes, chimpanzees, monkeys whatever. But if you sincerely believe that we are created in God's image with an absolute and sure hope of eternal life free from all our worldly strives, no matter how difficult our situation, you see have great meaning in your existence.
Living a life that matter is a choice. Prayerfully, the following poem (sorry, composer unknown to me) and the word of God could really give you some real courage to take on our walk on earth.
What Will Matter
Ready or not, some day it will come to an end.
There will be no more sunrises, no minutes, hours or days.
All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else.
Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance.
It will not matter what you owned or what you owed.
Your grudges, resentments, frustrations and jealousies will finally disappear.
So too, your hopes, ambitions, plans and to-do lists will expire.
The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away.
It won't matter where you came from, or what side of the tracks you lived on, at the end.
It won't matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant.
Even your gender or skin colour will be irrelevant.
So what will matter? How will the value of your days be measured?
What will matter is not what you bought, but what you built.
Not what you got, but what you gave.
What will matter is not your success, but your significance.
What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.
What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage or sacrifice that enriched, empowered or encouraged others to emulate your example.
What will matter is not your competence, but your character.
What will matter is not how many people you knew, but how many will feel a lasting loss when you're gone.
What will matter is not your memories, but the memories that lived in those who loved you.
What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by whom, and for what.
Living a life that matters doesn't happen by accident.
It's not a matter of circumstance, but of choice.
Choose to live a life that matters.
Ready or not, some day it will come to an end.
There will be no more sunrises, no minutes, hours or days.
All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else.
Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance.
It will not matter what you owned or what you owed.
Your grudges, resentments, frustrations and jealousies will finally disappear.
So too, your hopes, ambitions, plans and to-do lists will expire.
The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away.
It won't matter where you came from, or what side of the tracks you lived on, at the end.
It won't matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant.
Even your gender or skin colour will be irrelevant.
So what will matter? How will the value of your days be measured?
What will matter is not what you bought, but what you built.
Not what you got, but what you gave.
What will matter is not your success, but your significance.
What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.
What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage or sacrifice that enriched, empowered or encouraged others to emulate your example.
What will matter is not your competence, but your character.
What will matter is not how many people you knew, but how many will feel a lasting loss when you're gone.
What will matter is not your memories, but the memories that lived in those who loved you.
What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by whom, and for what.
Living a life that matters doesn't happen by accident.
It's not a matter of circumstance, but of choice.
Choose to live a life that matters.
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