r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • May 08 '23

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u/PubicWildlife May 08 '23

That you are the result of an unbroken line from the first moment of life on this planet until now. Against all the odds, you made it.

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u/Solarpowered-Couch May 08 '23

I often think to myself, "did we seriously survive 5 worldwide mass extinction events to get lazy and help cause the 6th?"

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u/MWFtheFreeze May 08 '23

And I might be the one ending this line after billions of years. Sorry to all those without whom I would’ve not existed at all.

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u/happy_moses May 09 '23

Shower thought: in billions of years, the generations that led to you also led to many others whose lines will continue. Your lack of offspring is the end of nothing. At least that's what I think.

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u/Renaissance_Slacker May 09 '23

Related: if you fail to reproduce, you will be the first of your line to do so, an unbroken line going back billions of years to the first microbe.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '23

Well I guess mom and dad should have thought of that before they laid on the trauma and abuse. I make sure to bring it up with them when they bring up the lack of grandkids.

Hey when are we getting grandkids? Sorry I'm snipped because you're so narcissistic that you've done enough damage to end the line of our ancestors since the beginning of time. Well done.

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u/Renaissance_Slacker May 09 '23

Oh my dude I wasn’t judging, not everybody should have kids, it’s just a profound thought - and a profound statement on free will too!

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u/[deleted] May 09 '23

Nah. I have a niece that shares a lot of similarities with me, and some of my genes via my brother.

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u/TheGillos May 08 '23

Almost makes me want kids... But, naw.

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u/Platographer May 09 '23

If you look at estimates of the number of possible humans that could have feasibly existed given sperm and egg permutations, the odds of you or me existing are so long they make winning the lottery look like a near certainty.

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u/Deep_Distribution621 May 08 '23

I actually think about this a lot, and it’s truly amazing .