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"brainiac" <bung@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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I was wondering if the objective thinkers here could answer this in a
totally 'emotionless' objective way [without bias whatsoever]. Is
life
a
good thing?



My bum is sore.


What have you been up to, then?

"brainiac" <bung@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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I was wondering if the objective thinkers here could answer this in a
totally 'emotionless' objective way [without bias whatsoever]. Is life
a
good thing?



My bum is sore.


What have you been up to, then?

Dare wrote:

This may be kind of off topic, but I was wondering...
Do we own our life?
Guess it sounds odd, but the question came up in
the context of suicide...
Do I have the right to take my life....kill it....
when I did not create it myself?

I drink two espressos a day, that keeps the gloom away,
that and a little help from my friends, and a curiosity
about the show called "everything".

As far as "owning" oneself. I doubt it, too objective.
Objectifying oneself does not work, could lead to suicide,
and that is an epitome of not working. The situation is too
entertaining to self depart IMO.
--

"Dare" <clydadare@hotmail.com> wrote in message

This may be kind of off topic, but I was wondering...
Do we own our life?

Or is this body I am in just a clone that happened to emulate
a possible process, out of many possible processes, that is
identical to "I experience what it feels like?"

If this state of affairs called me body is just a clone that
discovered a possible network of processes identified
with me being, can the clone say it is his?

I was wondering if the objective thinkers here could answer this in a
totally 'emotionless' objective way [without bias whatsoever]. Is life a
good thing?

"Frederick" <mmcneill@fuzzysys.com> wrote in message
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Dare wrote:

This may be kind of off topic, but I was wondering...
Do we own our life?
Guess it sounds odd, but the question came up in
the context of suicide...
Do I have the right to take my life....kill it....
when I did not create it myself?

I drink two espressos a day, that keeps the gloom away,
that and a little help from my friends, and a curiosity
about the show called "everything".

As far as "owning" oneself. I doubt it, too objective.
Objectifying oneself does not work, could lead to suicide,
and that is an epitome of not working. The situation is too
entertaining to self depart IMO.
--

Yes, it is quite a show at times.
And sometimes what happens next really is
a surprise...maybe even for the better!
Friends can make all the difference....
and coffee, glorious coffee...
Guess "good" depends on the chemicals in your body
at the time....or the feel-qualia produced by them...
Somewhere I read "chemistry is life, the rest is just details"
Maybe good is a (dependent) variable in the equation of life.

Thanks for your friendly(from my perspective) response..
I'll try to avoid decaffeinated gloom episodes.
Dare
-------------------------------

It's kind of interesting that current research into DNA and the mapping of
the human genome had lead to attempts to patent specific genes and DNA

I was wondering if the objective thinkers here could answer this in a
totally 'emotionless' objective way [without bias whatsoever]. Is life a
good thing?

I was wondering if the objective thinkers here could answer this in a
totally 'emotionless' objective way [without bias whatsoever]. Is life a
good thing?

"brainiac" <bung@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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I was wondering if the objective thinkers here could answer this in a
totally 'emotionless' objective way [without bias whatsoever]. Is life
a
good thing?

Life's been good to me so far.

I was wondering if the objective thinkers here could answer this in a
totally 'emotionless' objective way [without bias whatsoever]. Is life a
good thing?

"brainiac" <bung@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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I was wondering if the objective thinkers here could answer this in a
totally 'emotionless' objective way [without bias whatsoever]. Is life
a
good thing?


This may be kind of off topic, but I was wondering...
Do we own our life?

Guess it sounds odd, but the question came up in
the context of suicide...
Do I have the right to take my life....kill it....
when I did not create it myself?
Do I only have the right to "use it" ...
or have I 'paid' for my life by living it and
therefore own it...as well as the right to end it....

Guess my acquaintances are rather dark..
If life is not good...or neutral...
then what?
(that question has sort of a double or triple meaning)

Thanks,
Dare

I was wondering if the objective thinkers here could answer this in a
totally 'emotionless' objective way [without bias whatsoever]. Is life a
good thing?

I was wondering if the objective thinkers here could answer this in a
totally 'emotionless' objective way [without bias whatsoever]. Is life a
good thing?

Life is based on genetic replication.

Genetic replication that trends against entropic forces leads to a
more ordered universe.

An ordered system has a higher value than a disordered system.

Good implies a higher value than not-so-good.

Therefore life is good.

"Russ Rose" <russrose@hotmail.com> wrote in message

Life is based on genetic replication.

Genetic replication that trends against entropic forces leads to a
more ordered universe.

An ordered system has a higher value than a disordered system.

For whom?