RE: Why Do You or Did You Believe?
June 28, 2014 at 10:36 pm
(This post was last modified: June 28, 2014 at 10:41 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 28, 2014 at 10:06 pm)professor Wrote: Jenny, and Rythm, - the official line is evolution/ no reason behind life.Meh, I suppose I've never been short of those overpowering reasons for one, if we're confining ourselves to the thought experiment. I've been divorced (/w kid), cheated, lied to, shot at (and returned fire). Sick....so sick, really painfully malingeringly sick- but it's never seemed to me as though the bad outweighed the good.
Without an overpowering reason to continue in life when the pleasure/ good does not come even close to the unpleasant/bad experiences, why would one go on?
I am a very practical guy, when you stand back and look at life objectively and dispassionately, leaving here looks quite reasonable.
After all- all of us do leave one day don't we?
It is just a matter of timing
I'm a very practical guy too, and I suppose I just don't see anything reasonable at all about planning a premature exit, precisely -because- we all leave one day anyway. Hell, at the very least it's a choice I can't "unmake" - and I avoid those, as a rule.
:edit - all of this is assuming some pretty flimsy stuff though, with regards to whether or not one needs any reason at all, let alone an overpowering one - to do anything. Living is something that you can't simply reason yourself into or out of in any case. I doubt that infants or animals have "overpowering reasons" - it's all handled a bit more simply, eh?
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