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Would you want to know if you only had a month to live?


Yes, I want to know

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How is possibly extinguishing all life , not irrational?! Please correct me but even I realize that a fraction of a second after the big bang ...there was no life ..I think as I read the paper.

"The Large Hadron Collider as it is called; will start up it's massive particle accelerator on September 10Th. .....They are looking for a sub atomic component the Higgs Boson known as "the God particle" that will fill in the last missing piece of the so-called Standard Model of particle physics.....!!"

When a quick question to the paper is made , as to "why is there no mention of types of risks?' ;

"...risk is unpredictable..blah blah.....click"

Trying to have a lucid response reminds me of,Ken Magid's 1989 book, "High Risk: Children Without A Conscience" Which has many twists but also talks about, If we get enough of the right kind of love, we feel that others are generally good, that they can be trusted, that they're like ourselves. If we don't get enough of the right kind of love, life feels cold to us, it feels unsafe and insecure, others cannot be trusted.

Rage, begins to build in my mind.Yeah thanks I think . The general public will not be aware of the level of risk, the night before they may tuck their children to bed for the last time...I slowly hang up the phone.

Perhaps its a self-deluded vestige of an earlier time in my life when I was young and naive and optimistic and less cynical -- but I don't believe that anyone deliberately chooses to impede another innocent person, or would not harm another person if he fully considered all the consequences of his actions. It's a blatant violation of "common" rationality....or is it?

We learn to hide our emotions at such a young age. Yet, when we express them too strongly, we also run the risk of going a bit berserk and losing control. Its a fine line we walk but people should know what risk they face as a group/nation/race

My own irrational behavior -- none of which, fortunately, has been criminal --I think , i hope... I can see why I behaved as I did, why I would override every other rational consideration for ...that time. If we took my own eccentricities and amplified them a little, as they would have been had my upbringing been influenced a little more one way or another than it was, I could see how some of that behavior could become..., ahem.. criminal. I learned this the hard way. It wouldn't necessarily have been bad parents -- but just the decisions I might have made under certain stressful situations.

Some may say all of our behavior is ultimately reactive -- I guess I'm calming down... either on a pure hardware scale, like getting physically hurt, or on a software scale, reacting to a self-created psychological environment that's just as cause / effect driven as the purely physical.

That simple call ....

It's all perception, NOT BLAME-no right/wrong. There's always just enough truth underlying any conclusion to justify them in some way. That's the thing about the brain -- something doesn't have to be True to become advantageous to your own survival. Atheism - a non prophet organization. It only has to be True Enough. The brain operates not on what's True, but rather on what works

Not being aware of the risk is deterministic as it is in the purely physical domain -- but the domain in which the determinism occurs is a psychological domain, a domain of virtual or personally manufactured realities.Challenge 'us' to accept reality! There's still cause / effect going on, but there is now a whole range of imaginary causes and imaginary effects, in addition to "real" causes and effects, that produce a huge number of possible behaviors.Could this dream called life end for all , not just a few?Challenge 'us' to know the truth of our fragility...at least out of respect.

Well, if we are more civilized than our predecessors (that's probably reasonably debatable in either direction), then hope that our offspring will be more civilized than we are.... Overall, we certainly hope that our collective knowledge is growing in scope and depth, .... that one day will coalesce into an effective wisdom and may result in a more enlightened society. Whether that's actually true.... is something we have to wait to find out. Make the most of everyday! May I suggest ,making a wish in the evening of Sept.9Th..?

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