Zen Pencils by Gavin Aung Than for September 26, 2022
September 19, 2022
October 03, 2022
Transcript:
We are going to die. And that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of the Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats. Scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness....That are here. -Richard Dawkins
Yakety Sax over 1 year ago
“The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.”
“Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.”
Richard Dawkins
FreyjaRN Premium Member over 1 year ago
I don’t fear death. I just hope dying is swift and painless.
Vet Premium Member over 1 year ago
At 70 I noticed I am closer to death than my birth. I keep going because it’s what I want to do. I have seen death at close range, seen and held others as they died. I was many times the last person they saw or talked to. I am still riding the earth as it orbits the sun. Death will come…..and I will go…..but not today….so far.
PoodleGroomer over 1 year ago
Some will achieve great things. Others will become gym coaches and political consultants.
bxclent Premium Member over 1 year ago
then there are those who have been born but should have been
LAFITZGERALD over 1 year ago
Bingo – just like my parents who are currently deceased, and I really do miss them as much as my beloved relatives in the family!!
rick.schindler Premium Member over 1 year ago
OK, I got teary. I admit it.
Havel over 1 year ago
Mathematically none of us should exist… yet here we are (I’m pretty sure).