Are We Lucky?

Lots of folks are lucky and don't realize it I expect

I’m lucky.

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The product of blind chance? Are we engineered? A little of both?

Not chance. Intelligent design. Not by god, but by our forefathers. They were smart enough to see what worked in the world and design a future where we had more of that.

I was born to live in this time and this country.

That is extremely lucky.

• I live in more luxury than royalty had 150 years ago.
• I can sit in a chair in the sky and move at 600 mph.
• I can buy produce from sources worldwide.
• I can touch something on the wall and change my lighting or the temperature in my home.

• I am immune to typhus, smallpox, and a host of other diseases that killed millions.
• I can listen to a symphony at any whim.
• I have in my hand a device where I can read more than was contained a few decades ago in all the libraries in the world, some of it actually true.

If that’s not lucky IDK what is.

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So nothing supernatural exists?

We are therefore the product of chemistry, energy and cobbled together to function on this planet?

God made the world. But most of the world saw the consequences of certain behavior, and chose to do the opposite where good things DON'T happen.

So we are lucky that our fathers were smart.

Why lucky? Lucky from your human pov. There are infinite more ways we could have turned out and evolved. Life is short and brutal and full of suffering. When it isn't you feel lucky? Perspective too narrow. There's no lucky or unlucky, you just are. You have technology? How do you know you wouldn't be happier without. Look how removed from nature we are.

It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.

Created in the image of Perfection, what we did with it is our responsibility.

Can you know that there is a creator? Who? What reproducible tests can you run? Things are complicated, and that's your proof of creation? There's no way to know. Likely ever. But you need to for some reason. Why? Who cares?

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The product of blind chance? Are we engineered? A little of both?

It is funny you should post this. I had this very thought myself earlier today.

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What if the creator creates and waltzes on?

Maybe that already happened in our case. Maybe the creator was one of the earlier inhabitants of Earth. Maybe they were much more advanced. Maybe they created us with gene splicing as a hobby project. Maybe we and our planet Earth are nothing more than someone elses advanced Chia pet project?

Jebus made all of us with his magic. He has a lot of magic.

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I was born to live in this time and this country.

That is extremely lucky.

• I live in more luxury than royalty had 150 years ago.
• I can sit in a chair in the sky and move at 600 mph.
• I can buy produce from sources worldwide.
• I can touch something on the wall and change my lighting or the temperature in my home.

• I am immune to typhus, smallpox, and a host of other diseases that killed millions.
• I can listen to a symphony at any whim.
• I have in my hand a device where I can read more than was contained a few decades ago in all the libraries in the world, some of it actually true.

If that’s not lucky IDK what is.

I can talk shit, well type shit on the Internet, from the comfort of Casa Del Slam, with a bowl of cornchips and shit. It's a hell of an end-state for evolution woo woo.