How is life?

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Which is better?

It is better to live than never to have been born.
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It would have been better never to have been born than to live.
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I don't know.
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How is life?

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How do you rate life now that you are here?
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Those are the only 3 choices?
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Speakin' only for myself: I like livin'. I'm glad and grateful to be alive. That vote above for It is better to live than never to have been born., that's mine.
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Silenus wrote:Oh, miserable ephemeral race, children of chance and suffering, why do you compel me to say to you what would be most beneficial for you not to hear? What is best of all is utterly unreachable: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second best for you is – to die soon.
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Pistolero wrote: Mon Apr 14, 2025 10:15 pm
Silenus wrote:Oh, miserable ephemeral race, children of chance and suffering, why do you compel me to say to you what would be most beneficial for you not to hear? What is best of all is utterly unreachable: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second best for you is – to die soon.
Can't say I agree with Silenus.
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Me neither...but he's a Satyr. They are weird.
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Pistolero wrote: Mon Apr 14, 2025 10:30 pm Me neither...but he's a Satyr. They are weird.
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Had we never been born, we would not have to experience suffering, shame, nor face inevitable death. But I'm the one who chose, "I don't know" (if that makes the "think positive" people happier).
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Gary Childress wrote: Tue Apr 15, 2025 12:05 am
Who are these think positive folks you speak of?
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That is not even a complete sentence, not for formal grammar.

Better, what is the relative difference which defines better and worse. Those terms are relative, not absolute.

Damn.

Is this bar stool philosophy?
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Phil8659 wrote: Tue Apr 15, 2025 1:44 am That is not even a complete sentence, not for formal grammar.

Better, what is the relative difference which defines better and worse. Those terms are relative, not absolute.

Damn.

Is this bar stool philosophy?
With your big fat arse with a large anal hole you'd probably slide all the way to the floor on that bar stool. :P
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Life is a wonderful, glorious gift, and we should all make the most of it.
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Making the observation that life entails some bad (along with some good) is accurate, yet incomplete. Since both "good" and "bad" are relative terms, one cannot experience only good, because if one did, that would be "average" by definition, thus not good at all.
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