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    6 days ago

    Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination.

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        Yes, and it is such a good book series

        “And so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that no accomplishment has substance nearly as great as the road used to achieve it. We are not creatures of destinations. It is the journey that shapes us. Our callused feet, our backs strong from carrying the weight of our travels, our eyes open with the fresh delight of experiences lived.”

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    I love the optimism, but some people are literally born just to die. Remember we’re the lucky ones that get to grow and learn and love and live, and enjoy what you have while you can.

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    But it is the fact that it will end that gives our life meaning. If we didn’t know that it’ll end our lives would just be an endless loop where because it all happens nothing will matter. As Todd May says “One has a place in the cosmic process of which one’s own existence is a fleeting moment, but a moment nonetheless”

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    No.
    We are born due to inevitable combination of events in infinite pseudo-randomness*. We are simply chaos processing energy to spread it out until there is no energy potential left.

    *If the entire universe/multiverse (if it has an effect on our universe) could be accurately simulated, it would become predictable. Basically “fate”, except there is no purpose.

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      AFAIK Quantic indeterminacy means quantum randomness is real randomness (see Bell’s theorem).

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        “Does it matter I was trying to be nice…” Yes.

        The endless march of causality would and will be there with or without out your act, and the energy equilibrium doesn’t care because it can’t, but you can.

        The march of all electrons to their lowest energy orbitals isn’t your dance, and you merely pretend at comprehension of time scales not meant for you.

        Choose to ameliorate your own suffering, because it matters just as little to the Universe. Take your own medicine and take it without the comforting hypocrisy.