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This is why I just can't believe we're only here by chance
Posted on 10/27/14 at 9:52 pm
Posted on 10/27/14 at 9:52 pm
There comes a point when you can't wrap your mind around something. For some people it doesn't takes much, like me.
This is what I can't wrap my mind around.
*10 thousand years ago.
*If we give a modest 25 years per generation that would be 400 generations ago.
*If 10 thousand years ago your Great (x 400) Grandfather or grandmother didn't feel like boning that night, you don't exist.
* If he jerked off earlier that day, you don't exist.
* if he died of a cold the winter before or got sick of your great (x 400) grandmothers damn mouth three weeks before sexy time was to happen, you don't exist.
Here's the deal, I'm no genius and the math gets shakey that far out and astronomical, but just going back 15 generations gives you 16,384 sets of grandparents. Just 15 generations.
One single thing different the night any of those 16,384 couples conceived your next in line, you don't make it here. One ovulation period change. One anything.
That's too many variables for me to believe we aren't here on purpose.
That's just a measly 15 generations. What about going back 500,000+ years?
This is what I can't wrap my mind around.
*10 thousand years ago.
*If we give a modest 25 years per generation that would be 400 generations ago.
*If 10 thousand years ago your Great (x 400) Grandfather or grandmother didn't feel like boning that night, you don't exist.
* If he jerked off earlier that day, you don't exist.
* if he died of a cold the winter before or got sick of your great (x 400) grandmothers damn mouth three weeks before sexy time was to happen, you don't exist.
Here's the deal, I'm no genius and the math gets shakey that far out and astronomical, but just going back 15 generations gives you 16,384 sets of grandparents. Just 15 generations.
One single thing different the night any of those 16,384 couples conceived your next in line, you don't make it here. One ovulation period change. One anything.
That's too many variables for me to believe we aren't here on purpose.
That's just a measly 15 generations. What about going back 500,000+ years?
This post was edited on 10/27/14 at 10:08 pm
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Posted on 10/27/14 at 9:55 pm to Stacked
You look at it that way, I look at it as the cold harsh reality of nature.
Posted on 10/27/14 at 9:59 pm to CNB
My mind just isn't able to comprehend me ending up on the favorable end of those odds.
Posted on 10/27/14 at 10:01 pm to Stacked
Nothing spiritual has yet to show itself in my life. I've looked for it since I was a child.
Ghosts, higher powers, spirits.. fricking Santa Claus.
I become more and more comfortable with the idea that we are one and done beings on this Earth. I plan to make it count.
Ghosts, higher powers, spirits.. fricking Santa Claus.
I become more and more comfortable with the idea that we are one and done beings on this Earth. I plan to make it count.
Posted on 10/27/14 at 10:04 pm to Stacked
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One single thing different the night any of those 16,384 couples conceived your next in line, you don't make it here. One thing ovulation period change. One anything.
And someone else is. Not really hard to wrap your head around. No more magical than a piece of fruit, or a head of cattle.
Posted on 10/27/14 at 10:04 pm to Cmlsu5618
I'm not even talking spiritual. I just can't get past the numbers and unlikelihood of any of us being here right now.
Posted on 10/27/14 at 10:05 pm to Stacked
Cool post, Stacked.
Posted on 10/27/14 at 10:11 pm to Stacked
So predestination?
I don't see the strong logic then. I look at it like evolution.. people want to (even today) try and refute evolution asking; how can we be such a complex, perfect creature without divine intervention?
Well I say if we didn't have our systems as complex as they are then we wouldn't be living, and if your 100x great Gpa didn't bang your 100x great Gma out then you might not have been here. Random sequences brah..
I don't see the strong logic then. I look at it like evolution.. people want to (even today) try and refute evolution asking; how can we be such a complex, perfect creature without divine intervention?
Well I say if we didn't have our systems as complex as they are then we wouldn't be living, and if your 100x great Gpa didn't bang your 100x great Gma out then you might not have been here. Random sequences brah..
This post was edited on 10/27/14 at 10:11 pm
Posted on 10/27/14 at 10:11 pm to Stacked
Everybody frickin
Posted on 10/27/14 at 10:13 pm to Slippery Slope
Insightful philosophy Slope.
Posted on 10/27/14 at 10:14 pm to Stacked
Pro-choicers gonna frick things up for the generations to come now.
Posted on 10/27/14 at 10:18 pm to Cmlsu5618
If there's one thing I know about history it's that people like fricking each other.
Posted on 10/27/14 at 10:21 pm to Stacked
You laid out a wonderful example of how you came to be by chance and that makes you doubt that you came to be by chance? 
Posted on 10/27/14 at 10:22 pm to Cmlsu5618
For the record,
400 generations ago we had 2.58224987808691E+120 grandparents.
That's in exponential form, meaning move the decimal 120 places to the right.
Now obviously there wasn't that many people on earth at that time so it's not that easy to explain. But that doesn't change that there are a vast and endless, billions among billions of variables that make the chance of us managing to be born incalculable.
400 generations ago we had 2.58224987808691E+120 grandparents.
That's in exponential form, meaning move the decimal 120 places to the right.
Now obviously there wasn't that many people on earth at that time so it's not that easy to explain. But that doesn't change that there are a vast and endless, billions among billions of variables that make the chance of us managing to be born incalculable.
Posted on 10/27/14 at 10:26 pm to Kentucker
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You laid out a wonderful example of how you came to be by chance and that makes you doubt that you came to be by chance?
That's correct, the more unlikely something becomes the more unlikely I view it to be chance.
If I hit a jackpot on a slot machine in Vegas 100 times in a row I would start to believe something was up. I couldn't comprehend that happening naturally so I would assume someone had control of the situation.
Posted on 10/27/14 at 10:26 pm to Stacked
I'm not sure why your adding up all the grandparents and once then saying that there weren't that many people in the world at one time.
You only have two sets of grandparents at one time. That giant number is useless.
You only have two sets of grandparents at one time. That giant number is useless.
Posted on 10/27/14 at 10:28 pm to Stacked
Not really. All it means is that our ancestors were a bunch of cousin frickers.
That's why I believe Alabama held the birth and expansion of the human race.
That's why I believe Alabama held the birth and expansion of the human race.
Posted on 10/27/14 at 10:28 pm to Stacked
When I turn 70, imma start smokin weed again. And then frick yer gramma. 
Posted on 10/27/14 at 10:28 pm to Stacked
The odds of you being born are 100%.
This thread is stupid.
This thread is stupid.
Posted on 10/27/14 at 10:28 pm to Slippery Slope
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I'm not sure why your adding up all the grandparents and once then saying that there weren't that many people in the world at one time.
You only have two sets of grandparents at one time. That giant number is useless.
How many sets of great grandparents do you have, slope?
This post was edited on 10/27/14 at 10:29 pm
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