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Old Sep 4th, 2003, 03:10 PM        Depression versus perserverance
I'm reading The City of God Against the Pagans and have been quite surprised by a passage on the splendors of existence. Augustine (my patron saint) here says that human nature is to prefer an eternity of unhappiness to non-existence. He also proposes that nobody can be so miserable that death would seem desirable. We know that this isn't true because depression causes thousands of suicides every year.

Is it most likely that Augustine, one of the most intelligent persons in history, was so wrong simply because society had not yet developed to the point of harbouring such strong depression back around the time of the fall of the Roman Empire? Obviously chemical imbalances still existed back then, but perhaps people expended too much effort in the struggle to survive to contemplate giving up.

"Everyone prefers to be unhappy and sane rather than joyful and mad."

I really don't know about that one.
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