With Thanksgiving approaching, it seems like a good time for me to give some thanks...
To all previous me's: Thanks for acting in a way that increased the quality of life for subsequent me's such as the current one, and for not doing anything irreversibly destructive to (y)ourselves.
To all my hundreds of millions (or possibly billions) of my direct ancestors: Thanks for meeting your mate and performing the necessary act (and for the countless decisions and actions you each made that led up to those acts). I'm sure that some of you later regretted your couplings, but I wouldn't be here today without every one of them.
And most importantly, to whatever entity, process or circumstance caused our universe to exist and to be so well-suited to the rise of conscious life: I cannot possibly thank you enough, but on this site and in the way I live my life I will try.
To all previous me's: Thanks for acting in a way that increased the quality of life for subsequent me's such as the current one, and for not doing anything irreversibly destructive to (y)ourselves.
To all my hundreds of millions (or possibly billions) of my direct ancestors: Thanks for meeting your mate and performing the necessary act (and for the countless decisions and actions you each made that led up to those acts). I'm sure that some of you later regretted your couplings, but I wouldn't be here today without every one of them.
And most importantly, to whatever entity, process or circumstance caused our universe to exist and to be so well-suited to the rise of conscious life: I cannot possibly thank you enough, but on this site and in the way I live my life I will try.
posted by howtolive.org at
12:17 PM
3 Comments:
And I'd like to thank the Creator, whatever it be, for creating a universe so well-suited to the rise of murder, malaria, and miscarriages. The millions born to hopeless suffering cannot possibly thank you enough.
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Chris, at 1:58 PM
Well, I choose to be grateful today and look for the good in the Universe. It is a magical place, this world, and what we can achieve in it, but how we experience it is all a matter of personal perception. We always have choices.
I am grateful to be alive and have good health, and to have love as a powerful force in my life now (and hopefully for much more time to come). I am grateful for a never-ending supply of books and having the eyesight and mind with which to enjoy them. I am grateful for this Universe in which we exist and the forces which I know are there even though I cannot see them and the fact we always have choices. And, lastly, I am grateful for technology, the abundance of coffee and the little things in life -- those people that surprise us, those moments of synchronicity that catch us off guard and keep us smiling. Thanks, Universe, for all of that.
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Happily Coupled, at 3:48 PM
Thanks to both of you for your comments. Although my attitude is closer to happily coupled's than chris's, I do understand chris's viewpoint. At least on our planet, there has been enormous suffering. Murder, malaria, and miscarriages, of course, but far more... indeed, the idea that an intelligent creator would choose to utilize evolution via natural selection (where one life is turned into one meal billions or trillions of times a day) is difficult for me to accept. Having said that, I do see hope for a reduction or even (in the far future) elimination of suffering, and I think humanity is taking (admittedly very slow) steps in that direction.
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howtolive.org, at 5:52 PM
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