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12706966 No.12706966 [Reply] [Original]

How do we know that existence is preferrable to non-existence?

>> No.12706971

>>12706966
you can't experience non-existence

>> No.12706987

Do you prefer your situation now to what it was before you were born?

>> No.12707023

>>12706987
>non-existence
>12+ billion years of being fully content

>existence
>28 years and already suicidal

>> No.12707026

>>12706971
You didn't answer his question.

>> No.12707036

>>12707026
Do you answer rhetorical questions?

>> No.12707045

>>12707023
>rational arguments

>> No.12707054

>>12707036
You're still not answering his question.

>> No.12707167

>>12706966
why don't you go and not exist for a while then come back and tell us all about it

>> No.12707169

>>12707023
You can't be content if you don't exist. There are no positives or negatives to non-existence, it's just nothing

>> No.12707206

>>12707169
>tfw I could have potentially not existed for eons between now and my memory of what I think was five seconds ago and I would never know

>> No.12707243

>>12706966
existence is an axiom, therefore it is preferable apriori. The fact that you can ask this question under the domain of existence is testament to this fact.

>> No.12707251

>>12707243
>be born in prison
>whole life spent in prison
>"Do you guys think life outside the prison might be better? Just wondering."
>"What are you, retarded? Prison is an axiom!"

>> No.12707256

>>12707206
>tfw you could potentially not exist right now but you're too much of a bitch to pull the biological plug and would rather indulge in material pleasures via anime and video games thus perpetuating your existential preconceptions

>> No.12707258

>>12707251
>hurrrr life is a prison!
brainlet analogy

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>>12707251

>> No.12707294

>>12706966
Non existence is better can confirm
hurry up and ban me from this place fuck

>> No.12707319

>>12707036
I don't know, do you?

>> No.12707381

>>12707251
Shit analogy, there is nothing outside of existence. Existence just is and non-existence is not

>> No.12707398

>>12707023
>non-existence
>being

>> No.12707412

>>12706966
we don't

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12708357

>>12706966
The I posits itself

>> No.12708360
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>>12707398
Being and nonbeing are the same

>> No.12708368

>>12708360
is this rly Nietzche? looking like a femboy twink?

>> No.12708371

>>12706966
i think that there would be no difference.
even in non-existence there will be a none that exists, something that holds the pressure against existence. in this other the same is hold and just as life. strives for death, death will strive for life. I think Socrates would say the same.

Which side you hold, or want to think you are holding is all the
same

>> No.12708377

>>12706966
Have you stopped beating your wife?

>> No.12708456

>>12707054
If we can’t experience non-existence, then how can anybody know whether it is preferable?

>> No.12708475
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12708475

It's not. Non-existence is the "higher" of the two and necessarily contains existence within itself as one of its manifold possibilities.

>> No.12708551

>>12706966
It must be, otherwise the story of humanity is a tragedy. The only explanation for willingly participating in a journey that terminates in annihilation is that we see ourself as the protagonists of some sort of comedy.

>> No.12708656

By existence you mean Dasein?

>> No.12709190

>>12706966
By experiencing both