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RE: Sort of a complicated question, I'll try to ask. How was I born me and not another?
October 13, 2016 at 3:35 pm
You -do- know how you got here. I hope. If you don't, maybe ask your parents about the birds and the bees?
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RE: Sort of a complicated question, I'll try to ask. How was I born me and not another?
October 13, 2016 at 3:35 pm
Quote:I'm basically asking this question because existing is intolerable for me sometimes.
What.
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RE: Sort of a complicated question, I'll try to ask. How was I born me and not another?
October 13, 2016 at 3:36 pm
It appears to be an issue of hoping for a different answer because the accurate answer doesn't make him feel better.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: Sort of a complicated question, I'll try to ask. How was I born me and not another?
October 13, 2016 at 3:37 pm
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(October 13, 2016 at 3:35 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Quote:I'm basically asking this question because existing is intolerable for me sometimes.
What. Well, I assume that's why I asked the question. I think that's how I've generally been feeling today. I don't actually think that's why I asked the question though. Because I've actually been concerned about this question for much longer than just today. I just wanted to give you a reason for why I asked the question, and I guess my reason was sort of nonsense.
(October 13, 2016 at 3:36 pm)Rhythm Wrote: It appears to be an issue of hoping for a different answer because the accurate answer doesn't make him feel better. It's just not a good answer. You're telling me I was born from my parents. That's not interesting, nor does it give me an answer to my question.
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RE: Sort of a complicated question, I'll try to ask. How was I born me and not another?
October 13, 2016 at 3:40 pm
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I think you'll find that the universe isn't under any compulsion to interest you. I've been answering the questions -you ask- accurately since the start of the thread. There's no sense in blaming others for your own inability to communicate whatever it is you want to know, assuming you haven't already....which..frankly, I think you have... and just aren't satisfied. Maybe, though, the thing thats gnawing away at you, underneath all this, would be more intersting?
"Why do I suffer?"
-because you can.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: Sort of a complicated question, I'll try to ask. How was I born me and not another?
October 13, 2016 at 3:45 pm
(October 13, 2016 at 3:40 pm)Rhythm Wrote: I think you'll find that the universe isn't under any compulsion to interest you. I've been answering the questions -you ask- accurately since the start of the thread. The answers just aren't satisfying. Listen, I understand that you have good intentions here. It's just that I wasn't concerned about whether or not I came from my parents, I was concerned about what my journey leading up to here consisted of. Was I destined to be born, or am I just a random chance amalgamation of DNA sequences, or maybe a human being is something as random as the weather on the day their parents had sex. What I am concerned with is not whether or not I came from my parents, my concern is whether or not the was a small probability of me being born or not. Because from what I can see, a lot of people are never born, and they probably never had the opportunity to ever be born. They just never existed in the first place. They're someone who could have been, but because of a shift in random occurrences, they basically remained unborn, they never even had a chance to be born and then die. They were always dead. I was just wondering, why was I born and not just remain dead?
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RE: Sort of a complicated question, I'll try to ask. How was I born me and not another?
October 13, 2016 at 3:54 pm
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(October 13, 2016 at 3:45 pm)EruptedCarcassBloat Wrote: Listen, I understand that you have good intentions here. It's just that I wasn't concerned about whether or not I came from my parents, I was concerned about what my journey leading up to here consisted of. That's when your journey began. There was no you before that moment.
Quote:Was I destined to be born, or am I just a random chance amalgamation of DNA sequences, or maybe a human being is something as random as the weather on the day their parents had sex. What I am concerned with is not whether or not I came from my parents, my concern is whether or not the was a small probability of me being born or not. Because from what I can see, a lot of people are never born, and they probably never had the opportunity to ever be born. They just never existed in the first place
b-mine
The bolded bit makes every bit before it about non people people and how many there were incoherent.
Quote:They're someone who could have been, but because of a shift in random occurrences, they basically remained unborn, they never even had a chance to be born and then die. They were always dead.
-more incoherence...you don't know how many people who never were could have been, and those who were never alive cannot be dead.
Quote:I was just wondering, why was I born and not just remain dead?
Might have had something to do with your parents bumping uglies, and then your mother carrying you to term, huh? You have never -been- dead to remain dead in the first place, as I keep telling you.
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RE: Sort of a complicated question, I'll try to ask. How was I born me and not another?
October 13, 2016 at 3:57 pm
bumping uglies?
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RE: Sort of a complicated question, I'll try to ask. How was I born me and not another?
October 13, 2016 at 3:57 pm
I would like to make a note on statistics here. The chances of something that already happened is 100%. That's just how statistics works. I don't like to get into philosophical debates though. Have fun.
I don't believe you. Get over it.
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RE: Sort of a complicated question, I'll try to ask. How was I born me and not another?
October 13, 2016 at 4:21 pm
(October 13, 2016 at 3:57 pm)Jesster Wrote: I would like to make a note on statistics here. The chances of something that already happened is 100%. That's just how statistics works. I don't like to get into philosophical debates though. Have fun. What about chance?
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