RE: Why is life programmed to survive?
August 29, 2016 at 10:54 am
(This post was last modified: August 29, 2016 at 10:58 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 29, 2016 at 2:04 am)Macoleco Wrote: I would like to know why he thinks this way, and why those words are euphisms.They're euphimisms for the same reason that anything is a euphism. Substitute terms for something that is otherwise difficult or harsh- for any number of reasons. We'd rather say "designed to survive or programmed to survive" than meticulously explain what we're referring to.
As a point of fact, we aren't designed at all. We're simply whats left...currently...and we too will soon be dead. Some design.
Similarly, if we're programmed at all it's obviously not in the strictest sense of that word nor is the notion of being programmed -to survive- accurate in any sense. We're "programmed" to avoid being chewed on, we're "programmed" to avoid the pain of starvation. We survive incidentally, sometimes, and temporarily. Some program.
You simply have survived, thusfar....you simply haven't done anything that would get you killed...yet. You won't survive...nor will any of this life you see. You will die, as will all of this life you see....armed with that realization you'd have to either propose that we suddenly stop being designed and programmed to survive, or question the validity of the statements which formed the question. The euphisms we choose to describe this in our wonderings describe us, as intentional agents with a penchant for anthropomorphism...but they don't describe the subject of our wonderings.
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