Zen Pencils by Gavin Aung Than for December 02, 2024
November 25, 2024
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Transcript:
We are going to die. And that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of the Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats. ZZ Scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness… …that are here. - Richard Dawkins
FreyjaRN Premium Member about 11 hours ago
We have to make room for those to come. Death is not necessarily the enemy. That much was clear when I worked as an RN.
I’m not seeking out death, but I won’t run from it. Being in pain nonstop for nearly 25 years, plus my health worsening has only made this more true.
Willywise52 Premium Member about 5 hours ago
Maybe true,but kinda sad…
Durak Premium Member about 1 hour ago
Every time I hear about people being deported from our nation for not having the proper documentation I think about the terrible loss we are suffering. The potential for greatness that all those people bring to our land, lost. Lost because of fear, ignorance and a misplaced conception of the law and right and wrong.
How do we resolve the issue? We make it easier for immigrants to get documentation in the first place. Increase the number of people processing requests.
People are the greatest natural resource in the world, and we squander it like fools.