What's it like to be?

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shadyreapers_ dijo:
What about you? What do you think it's like to be?
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Weird question because thinking necessitates being. If I weren't being right now, not only would there not be "I", there would not be any thinking either.
I think because I choose to think, and I have that choice because I am alive and it is in my nature to be able to make these choices (keyword: volition).
 
Life is that which resists decay into equilibrium, ergo to live is to resist decay into equilibrium. The elements you comprise are organized in a particular formation against the law of entropy, and you must continually exert effort just to keep yourself composed. Some people conceptualize that expenditure of effort as "suffering", but I think it's more accurately described as "struggling". You suffer in life, but you also suffer in death. You can suffer doing nothing, but you cannot live doing nothing. Suffering is passive, it's a thing that happens to you. To remain alive is not defined by suffering, it's defined by struggling. You don't struggle in death, death only comes when you stop struggling. To be is to struggle. If you're not struggling, you're dead, physically or spiritually.
 
dick brain dijo:
Life is that which resists decay into equilibrium, ergo to live is to resist decay into equilibrium. The elements you comprise are organized in a particular formation against the law of entropy, and you must continually exert effort just to keep yourself composed. Some people conceptualize that expenditure of effort as "suffering", but I think it's more accurately described as "struggling". You suffer in life, but you also suffer in death. You can suffer doing nothing, but you cannot live doing nothing. Suffering is passive, it's a thing that happens to you. To remain alive is not defined by suffering, it's defined by struggling. You don't struggle in death, death only comes when you stop struggling. To be is to struggle. If you're not struggling, you're dead, physically or spiritually.
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To not suffer would be what you'd call nirvana , the extinction, soulless, blown out
 
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