Author Topic: What were the chances of you being born? Basically zero.  (Read 875 times)

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Re: What were the chances of you being born? Basically zero.
« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2014, 03:33:24 am »
and yet, here I is.

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Re: What were the chances of you being born? Basically zero.
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2014, 04:08:52 am »
and yet, here I is.

Quite incredible if you ask me.
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Re: What were the chances of you being born? Basically zero.
« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2014, 04:26:53 am »
Quite incredible if you ask me.


Not really.  Whomever "I" turned out to be would be "me," so the probability of "me" being born was 1.

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Re: What were the chances of you being born? Basically zero.
« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2014, 10:02:30 am »
No one really exists.

The you that was born is not the you now. All you share with that person is a few scratches in your brain - we call them memories. Everything else has changed and keeps changing constantly.
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