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Would you live your life all over again. The same way and without being aware of living it again???
I may do it. But only up until age 18 and thats it. After age 18 life got crappy and no I would not want to relive it again the same way.
If I could come back as me again with the chance to live my life differently, yes, I'd do that. There's a lot of mistakes I want to correct and wrong turns I want to make up for.
However, IF I knew what I know now it would be a different story. Being that the OP said that we wouldn't know then I would not.
Yep, what would be the point of that?
It is rather like the concept of reincarnation. Reincarnation suggests you return in a new body with no recollection of past experience which is a pointless setup. If I was reincarnated rather than born, yet have no recollection before my birth, then it is a distinction without a difference.
Similarly if I am "reincarnated" into the SAME body and experience with no recollection of the past then it's even more pointless. It's like rewinding a movie and playing it over but with no memory of having seen it before. Why would I care either way, given those parameters?
The most charitable understanding of the OP that I can have is that they were asking whether you would wish your life on yourself. My answer remains no. I hope it accrues some benefit to others and those who will come after me ... that is what gives it a point.
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I'm having a hard time understanding why someone wouldn't want to do it over again. There is about a 50% chance you could make different choices, even if it has been mapped out exactly the same. There is also about a 50% chance that different environmental factors will react differently to you.
I'm having a hard time understanding why someone would prefer to simply dissipate into nothingness, than to have another chance at any life again.
There are so many great things to simply living:
Feeling the warmth of the sun on your face. Seeing the dark turn to light around you as the sun rises.
The smell of fresh cut grass.
The refreshing quality of ice cold water on a hot summers day, or a good cup of coffee to chase away a chill.
The intimacy of a lover's embrace.
This list could go on and on...
Even if one experienced the most horror any life could offer, surely there must be something good about it, or why would any of us bother to continue living the life we have?
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Originally Posted by JerZ
Now. This doesn't mean what's happened to me constantly invades my life today. But it took me four decades to get to the "not constantly" phase. It will never go away completely. Do I enjoy the sun now? Sure. Would it be worth it to go through all that again, to feel the sun? --- no. Oblivion for me. I'm good with that.
Well, yes. But I'm not really judging anyone, just because I cant imagine not being willing to have another life. As I said, choices have a 50% chance of being different. Not your personal choice always, but maybe the person affecting you would swing the other way, or get run over by a train, and you would miss having to experience all that.
Sort of like my family - all it would take is 1 person accidentally or simply choosing to - act differently, or be struck by lightening, and childhood would have been a lot closer to something called normal.
All I'm doing is asking for reasons. I'm not demanding any, like, no one forced you to reply.
I'm glad you came through your ordeal. Thanks for sharing why you feel nothingness would be better than risking doing it again and hoping for someone to act differently.
I hope more people would share.
I remember a quote somewhere that said, "Even the God's envy a man's mortality." For me, it made life seem really special.
Would you live your life all over again. The same way and without being aware of living it again???
as a person who prides himself on being smart, there would be some changes i would make for sure.
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I'm good with that.
