First, there are a couple of straw man arguments here. I never said that &quot;absolutely sure&quot; meant you are predicting the future. I also never said that it was equivalent to &quot;are you absolutely certain you will not under any circumstances kill yourself&quot;.<p>But besides that, you said that &quot;absolutely&quot; qualifies &quot;sure&quot;, which I agree with, and this seems to indicate that you have an idea of what a qualification is. It modifies, or limits something.<p>Now, let me repeat definition 1 of &quot;absolute&quot;:  &quot;not <i>qualified</i> or diminished in any way; total&quot;.<p>In your two interpretations:<p>* &quot;&#x27;absolutely sure&#x27; means you are totally 100% confident in your thinking, but this does not necessarily mean you are predicting the future&quot;, and<p>* &quot;she just asked if in her mind and from her perspective, she had the confidence of not killing herself (regardless of any unforeseen circumstances of say the apocalypse happening),&quot;<p>both contain qualifiers.<p>In the first case you substitute &quot;sure&quot; with &quot;confident in your thinking&quot;, but you still qualify it with &quot;but this does not necessarily mean you are predicting the future&quot;<p>In the second case, you substitute &quot;sure&quot; with just &quot;confident&quot;, and then qualify it twice:<p>* ...if in her mind and from her perspective...<p>* ...(regardless of any unforeseen circumstances of say the apocalypse happening)...<p>Finally, in your first post, you said &quot;[the therapist is] asking it within a certain context&quot;, which is also a qualification.<p>It seems to me that you are taking what the therapist said and interpreting in ways your brain can understand without paying precise attention to meaning, as indicated by your substitutions of the word &quot;sure&quot;, three separate interpretations (across both posts) and not describing <i>at all</i> how the meaning of the individual words relate to each other, despite your attempt to be &quot;pedantically logical&quot;.<p>Therefore, I think you are a normal person, and do not get where the author is coming from. In the future, I wouldn&#x27;t be so quick to tear down the ideas of perspectives you do not understand.