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A thing about life

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?

-Richard Dawkins
User41 · 36-40, M Best Comment
My little ritual was to go into the mountains before each deployment and settle into the idea that I might not be coming back home

But I did 🤷🏻‍♂️

An now you unlucky bastards have to deal with me an all my best answers
@User41 nice to see you again! :)
User41 · 36-40, M
Lol

Thanks and hi again @mindstruggle

Mordi · 31-35, M
But that assumes living is better than an unknown state of being (not being born) that can't be comprehended. 🤷‍♂️
Yes, @Mordi
Mordi · 31-35, M
So it has no value. 🤔 I could just as easily say, the people that weren't born are the lucky ones because not being born is actually a better state of being. 🤷‍♂️
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