• Oka@sopuli.xyz
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    3 months ago

    Do I get a vision of my entire life, or do I just have to choose on a whim?

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        3 months ago

        Do I have knowledge of when I will be born? And am I aware of the high and lows of the era?

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            3 months ago

            Then my answer is No.

            Humans have not yet reached a point in the entire history where they are deemed worthy of being part of.

            If there is a point in the future where there is acceptance of all, fairness for all, and peace among all, then I would say yes.

            That version of human will have the ultimate freedom.

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    3 months ago

    Warning: ITT, lots of nonresponse bias.

    Life dissatisfaction guides people to type no;
    neutrally satisfied folks will skip;
    the relatively contented might type a “yes” or be offline.
    With today’s historical context, there’s a bit of a skew, especially for those hanging out online o( ; ´ ﹏ `;)o

    As for me, I’m excepted. I have decent dissatisfaction rather often, but arrogantly – I’d be born a million times, every time (unless you ask me at a bad moment).

    Even at my worst, why do I not roll over and die? “I want to see how my story ends.”

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      3 months ago

      No is not such a pleasant decision in this question, in order to answer this way you need to really feel and witness really bad things. Therefore, a large number of such answers says something…

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    Absolutely.

    A. Even with how shit the world is there’s enough good that exists for it to be worth it.

    B. If I didn’t exist, I would never have a chance to help improve the world in my small way.

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      Same view but I also have had it pretty good. Great family and support, passed that on to my kids, and I’ve had a lot of support with great teachers through my years so now I pass that on to those less fortunate and it just does it for me. It’s a great feeling helping others.

      Here’s your Christmas advice kids: care about other people, nothing else will actually fulfill you.

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    Just like how we don’t know what it would feel like to be dead, and we dread dying, I suppose choosing to be born would feel like death of that self that is given this choice, so I guess the question can be rephrased as “if you could die in this moment, would you choose that?”

    I guess not.

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    3 months ago

    Yes. If I’m actually some kind of cosmic being that can choose to be born yes, I am taking that pill. I’m taking all the experience pills.

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    3 months ago

    Yes! I’d rather there be something than nothing. It’s a wonder that anything exists at all

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    3 months ago

    I reckon so, yeah. Better than nothing, right? Been plenty of good with the bad. That’s about all a disembodied energy form could really hope for, after all.

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      Not existing is neither bad nor good, existence is the experience of both good and bad things. Don’t only focus on the bad ones.