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Good luck

Ken Edwards October 29, 2021 at 01:34 3075 views 17 comments
Good Luck

Here is what I think. I think that we human beings were not created all at once, all at one stroke. I think that we all evolved slowly over a period of 350 million years.
I believe that all humans are of the same age.
The very first living being with genes and reproductive facilities was born spontaneously in the ocean 350 million years ago and has never since died. It still lives. It has slowly evolved through millions of centuries into you and me and into all of the other millions of different forms of life on the planet earth and on the space station.
We are all, in a very real sense, 350 million years old.
But you, my friend, are the final you. And you soon will die.
Every human being has always existed in one of two different shapes. He has always lived in the shape of a SPERM CELL or the shape of an OVA CELL.
Except for this one brief moment, (today). We each exist today in the shape of the animal we see in a mirror.

In ALL of this 350 million years, only once have you and I ever seen the sun. Only once.
All humans alive today have basked in the light of the sun. All humans alive today will take that vision with them to the grave. And that cold, cold grave will be the first and only time they will ever have experienced the cold of death in al their long, long lives.

But maybe not the last!
There is still hope! Not for me, alas, but maybe for you!

Perhaps a single, tiny piece of you will travel down to your testicles and and will live there comfortably and will then be squirted into a living vagina.

And will live forever.

Good Luck, Ken Edwards

Comments (17)

theRiddler October 29, 2021 at 01:40 #613790
Shouldn't you be busy putting razor blades in candy?
apokrisis October 29, 2021 at 01:59 #613796
Quoting Ken Edwards
I think that we human beings were not created all at once, all at one stroke. I think that we all evolved slowly over a period of 350 million years.


If you are interested, this is why biologists distinguish between the mortal body and the immortal stem line. So it was a feature of sexual reproduction and basic to the needs of being able start building complex multicellular life about 2 billion years ago.

Nick Lane's The Vital Question covers this well.


praxis October 29, 2021 at 02:04 #613799
Quoting Ken Edwards
We are all, in a very real sense, 350 million years old. … Perhaps a single, tiny piece of you will travel down to your testicles and will live forever.


I’m no biologist but I don’t thing anything needs to travel down to my balls for them to be fertile other than blood and stuff. I’m blood? And if I’m just an infinitesimal fraction of 350 million years of evolution it hardly seems like anything to get excited about. “I” am all but nothing.
theRiddler October 29, 2021 at 02:09 #613800
Our God is an awesome God
We pray to our awesome God today
He's an awesome God and he
Is an awesome God to me
He's an awesome God we pray
To our awesome God today
He's a very awesome God
He's a very awesome God
Wheatley October 29, 2021 at 02:11 #613801
I have bad luck.
Shawn October 29, 2021 at 02:36 #613808
Antinatalists are screaming.
Shawn October 29, 2021 at 02:37 #613809
It's actually deafening.
James Riley October 29, 2021 at 02:48 #613816
Reply to Ken Edwards

Sounds reasonable. Reminds me of the Aspen Tree, writ large. But I actually think it's writ even larger than you suggest.
Ken Edwards October 29, 2021 at 14:51 #613959
You say: Shouldn't you be busy putting razor blades in candy?

Sorry I don't get it.
Ken Edwards October 29, 2021 at 14:56 #613960
"I’m no biologist but I don’t thing anything needs to travel down to my balls for them to be fertile"

You're right. Your balls manufacture future yous, ie Sperm.

But, alas, mine don't anymore.
Ken Edwards October 29, 2021 at 15:24 #613964
Re - Our God is an awesome God.

I assume you refer to the God Jehovah, who is 11 billion years old. Or perhaps to his son, the God Jesus Christ. Or, if you are a Catholic, to the Goddess Mary, wife of the God Jehovah. Or perhaps to Allah said by Moslems to be the same God as Jehovah but denied by Christions.

Do you include me, Ken Edwards, in the word - "Our"? If so you err.

Please explain.
Ken Edwards October 29, 2021 at 15:35 #613965
Shawn says : "Antinatalists are screaming."
Maybe I'm just dumb but I don't get it. I don't get the connection.

Please explain.
Ken Edwards October 29, 2021 at 15:38 #613968
Right on, apokrisis.
praxis October 29, 2021 at 15:44 #613971
Quoting Ken Edwards
Your balls manufacture future yous, ie Sperm.


I had noting to do with the 350 million years of evolution and genetic information carried in the family jewels. If I’m any part of that, it’s so negligible as to be nonexistent in any real way. Our feelings about family and offspring are part of the design to continue the design, nothing more.
Ken Edwards October 29, 2021 at 15:56 #613974
You, praxis, are right if you are referring only to the collection of brain cells that comprise the conscious "you". But if you include your history then you err.

Existence or non existence cannot be affected by negligibility.
praxis October 29, 2021 at 16:23 #613983
Quoting Ken Edwards
But if you include your history then you err.


What is a handful of years compared to 350 million? Practically nothing, but feels very important because that facilitates gene propagation.
Ken Edwards October 29, 2021 at 16:45 #613991
In my case, "a handful of years compared to 350 million" is whatever I think it is.