@Arjuna,
Arjuna wrote:
A Lyn Fei wrote:
The fact that I exist. I get to experience living. I think therefore I experience. Because this is all that I believe, I also get to decide what is important in my life and what is not. All of these thoughts bring meaning to my life. How about yours?
A friend of mine says we're all lottery winners. If you look at all the ways things could have gone... it appears that the odds were against my existence. But here I am!
Sometimes I feel like I wander around in my psyche like it's a landscape. I pick up on themes. Will and Love are obvious themes.
Not everybody would get what you mean when you say Life is its own point. I think we're on the same page. Would we also agree that when we say Life, we mean everything? Trying to find something outside of everything to anchor meaning to a strange thing. I think we all do it, though. I think it's part of the way our minds work. Part of the story is the meaning of the word: meaningless.
I saw a comedian once make a joke about being the sperm in the lead struggling to the be one that wins the prize. Only to discover that he had been born into a white trash family in a trailer park destined with a life that will go absolutely no where. What kind of prize is that? It's a miracle!
I hesitate and cringe any time I hear someone trying to use the lottery as an analogy to the rarity of existence and that since existence is so unlikely that it must have been done by some kind of intelligence. The whole analogy is so mistaken and poorly thought out that I can't believe anyone actually buys it at a legitimate argument.
The universe is incredibly old. Life did not spring up instantly after the universe came about. At least not from what kind of evidence we have it does not seem so immediate. Not only that but it still took billions of years before intelligent life came about, that is if you can consider humans intelligent. I am still debating weather or not we are actually intelligent. But that is a different topic all together. So if the point was to have humans come about why take so long before humans were the result? The one thing the universe has an abundance of, is time and you can pretty much write time out of the equation then. So if any one ever uses the lottery analogy the best refutation of it is to say, well how much time do you need to play to win? Think about it.
If the odds were 1 in a billion chance of winning the lottery and you played the same sequence of numbers every time you played, and you only bought one ticket each time the drawing happened. How long do you think it would take before you won? If you can cross time off the equation, then does it matter how long it will take? No. Eventually you will win and that is a guarantee. It's only a matter of time.
Same with existence, it's only a matter of time.
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