Dont u think nothingness is better than the pain and suffering that we have to go through on a daily basis?
2007-11-05 20:22:56 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I do not think that being an accident is neccessarily less than miraculous.
Your existance here depended on one particular sperm meeting one paricular egg. A different sperm or different egg would have produced a different person. The average human ejaculation contains over one hundred million sperm: so already the chance of your existance is over one hundred million to one.
Multiply that by the odds of fertilisation having occurred at all, and of you having survived pregnancy (around 2/3 of all pregnancies terminate within the first trimester). Then multiply that by the odds of your parents having chosen to have sex that night. Multiply that by the odds of them having met each other and fallen in love. Multiply that by the odds of *them* having been successfully conceived and brought to term (the same odds as for you).
Take this back only a few generations, and the odds of *you* having existed are so amazingly unlikely that your existance at all is a genuine (non-religious) miracle.
You don't need to be religious to see that each of our lives can easily be seen as a miracle. Why waste that?
2007-11-06 00:23:29 · answer #1 · answered by gribbling 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It does not follow that being an accident engenders a death wish. Someday I will think that nothingness is better, but I don't yet, because even with all the pain and suffering I have moments of happiness and creativity. I really hate admitting that; it sounds so nauseating and trite.
But you may believe me when I say that when the day arrives when the pain and suffering is not outweighed by the happiness and creativity I will choose nothingness.
2007-11-06 04:29:14 · answer #2 · answered by LodiTX 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Firstly.... because something comes about randomly does not necessarily mean it is undesirable and to be eliminated. In some cases it might be assumed so, but likewise the concept of fortune applies to that which comes about randomly (accidentally) and is in fact desirable.
As it stands.... life is neither. Life is simply happenstance, neither inherantly positive nor negative.
Secondly.... Nothingness is supreme... but it comes to everyone invariably given time. Why bother rushing it? Pain and suffering are ultimately irrelevant, and it is certainly more interesting to experience them now while the oppurtunity is there than to simply skip over them because some primitive aspect of your biology doesn't want them. Your biology expends itself futiley trying to avoid the unavoidable....
My recommendation is to dive headfirst into pain and suffering to get as much of it as you can before you eventually snuff it and cease to be.
2007-11-06 06:31:15 · answer #3 · answered by Lucid Interrogator 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your first premise does not support your second premise.
Being an "accident" has nothing to do with your pain and suffering. I do not feel "pain and suffering" as a matter of metaphysics--why do you? If I, and millions of others, do not feel it, why do you?
To reverse your question, wouldn't it be better to discover why you feel it, why others don't, and how they think differently from you so you, also, do not feel pain and suffering?
2007-11-06 07:20:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe that we are just an accident. I believe we are created by someone powerful than us. I believe each one of us has a purpose.
Pain and suffering are just spices to add flavor in our lives. Pain and suffering make us strong and make us appreciate the real beauty of life.
2007-11-06 04:40:51 · answer #5 · answered by Soop3rNLuVkJB 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We are only 'accidents' according to people who aren't paying enough attention to their sex lives. Truth is.. if you were the fastest swimming sperm out of thousands...your intent was to be born. Born to walk a preplanned path of events set up to evolve you in very specific ways...so follow 'your intent' to live...
and tell everybody 'else' to butt out!
2007-11-06 06:08:46 · answer #6 · answered by kunfused 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We are not accidents...........Something is always better than nothing...........Why not try to overcome the challenge of problems that beset you and try to make a positive future for yourself and stop dwelling on the negative.
2007-11-06 04:32:22 · answer #7 · answered by westville sal 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
chill dude, that's against the law
a great person once told me that it takes more courage to live than to kill ourselves.
That's good enough for me. =)
2007-11-06 04:38:07 · answer #8 · answered by a0shark 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Maybe my 25 yr old son who killed himself can tell you when you meet him. Let me know ok? He didn't leave a note so we are all left wondering...........
2007-11-06 04:46:03 · answer #9 · answered by WitchDust 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Do you want to go first ?
2007-11-06 05:32:15 · answer #10 · answered by ROBERT P 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋