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Ask HN: How do you justify your existence?

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Re: Ask HN: How do you justify your existence?

#61

I'm gonna repurpose this ... "They can see no reasons 'cause there are no reasons What reasons do you need? Oh oh oh whoa whoa" Boomtown Rats

And today’s Sunday! A day we can all like.

(Would it have been better if OP posted tomorrow? Since we’re asking philosophical Qs.)

Re: Ask HN: How do you justify your existence?

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13.8 Billion years ago, the universe was created in a magical moment that we have yet to understand. 370,000 years after that, it cooled down enough to finally let protons bind to electrons, and the first atoms formed (99% hydrogen, 1% helium). 100M years after that, much of that hydrogen gas collapsed into stars, which underwent nuclear fusion to produce helium, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and other heavier elements u…

After all those billion years you beat me to posting this by a couple of hours.

I am redundant; failed sperm.

Re: Ask HN: How do you justify your existence?

#64
Although I agree with all the anti-foundationalists here (i.e. “badges? we don’t need no stinking badges!”) I must say that in my heart, I like to feel that I am a good person. To accomplish that, I find people I can help and I try to help them.

I want to feel that I am a good citizen. I want to be respected by people whom I respect.

Re: Ask HN: How do you justify your existence?

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post #39

Well, being part of a universal whole, I can only judge the whole, which clearly ought to exist (not a nihilist).

Could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

Re: Ask HN: How do you justify your existence?

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post #30

13.8 Billion years ago, the universe was created in a magical moment that we have yet to understand. 370,000 years after that, it cooled down enough to finally let protons bind to electrons, and the first atoms formed (99% hydrogen, 1% helium). 100M years after that, much of that hydrogen gas collapsed into stars, which underwent nuclear fusion to produce helium, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and other heavier elements u…

In order to justify my existence, I need to first create the universe :).
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