Quote:An abstraction from some astronomical hypothetical isn't actually immediate to your life.
Nope..present life is no abstraction. It is the realist and most immediate experience we have, phenomenally accessible to us under all circumstances. That we are each here despite the most minute odds is a concrete fact of experience to be freely pondered again and again without your priggish moralistic disaproval.
Yet you still can't name a single thing in your immediate life. Just more abstractions about life in general.
Dial 988.
(Jan 24, 2026 04:35 AM)Syne Wrote: [ -> ]Yet you still can't name a single thing in your immediate life. Just more abstractions about life in general.
Dial 988.
Why do I need to name any "thing" in my life? It's about being happy I won the cosmic lottery and got born at all. I could be a bum living under a bridge and still be happy I'm here. Why is this so hard for you to grasp?
If that's all you have to appreciate, I can see why you cling to it so much.
(Jan 24, 2026 07:37 PM)Syne Wrote: [ -> ]If that's all you have to appreciate, I can see why you cling to it so much.
I appreciate the fact of being alive as well as all the things in my life. Why wouldn't I? Or are you just desperate to find something to insult me about?
What things in your life? Why is it so hard to mention a few? I even gave you a few.
You'll notice how I've never even implied your strawman that you somehow shouldn't appreciate simply being alive. But I would hope you have more concrete reasons than abstract hypotheticals.
I could probably name countless things, activities, people, etc. that have and do make me feel like I lead a charmed existence.
So much so that I wouldn't even think of life itself being anything but a given.
I have no inclination to go into any details of my life knowing how you'll only twist that into an excuse to insult me. Everything has been explained.
So just pizza and diet Coke. Got it.
Magical Realist, I'm not sure that one can apply "luck" to the state of being alive compared to not alive. Being alive is condition for the notion of luck/unluck to be meaningful, I would argue, and if you are "lucky" to be alive it is therefore the case that those not alive are "unlucky". And this is not a meaningful notion.
However, what I take from your posts on this is that you find joy in simply being alive. You appreciate it. I don't think that is derived from luck, but simply a joy of the phenomenon of experience, at any level. good for you. We are here, and if that alone makes you happy then that's great.
As for Astonishing Science Facts:
There are almost 10x more trees on earth than stars in our galaxy. (c.3 trillion trees).
A single bee would take over 10 lifetimes to make a single teaspoon of honey.
Some genes have been given odd names: e.g. Sonic Hedgehog, Pikachurin, and Cheap Date. There are undoubtedly others that are decidedly unscientific sounding, but these are the 3 that stuck with me.
Yeah, well I'm just going to keep on feeling incredibly lucky for being born at all as everyone should. Tks for the advice anyway.