The Odds Of You Being Alive

[@TrueMeaning]

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[@GoFast865]

Such an important video. Just being here is such a gift.

[@Prometheushighaf]

Thsts why they call it the present

[@YurFavDva]

@@Prometheushighafwow

[@paulsowards8345]

We are not the body, nor the mind. We are pure awareness observing the human experience.

[@Molden95]

If you want to go further, we are not even awareness, we simply aren’t. If you want to go all around, we are the whole world. There’s nothing to win here. You can now awaken and BE LIFE.

[@jamesmelbourne2752]

Spiritual Beings having a human experience😊❤

[@friendlymurtad]

we are the universe waking up

[@HassanAhmed-rf9xr]

@@Molden95 wdym by we aren't awareness? Isn't awareness being able to feel and perceive things and knowing those things exist in the presence. Basically consciousness. So how are not or in ur words 'we simply aren't'. I can guess the 'we are the whole world' because collective conscious maybe? Or maybe just life in general.

[@HassanAhmed-rf9xr]

@@Revelaciones33 are you saying for all those sperms there was only 1 consciousness available for them?

[@joey1962]

Amazing video. Very well put together!

[@IntrinsicRoots]

Very well done. This is an excellent video to bring people back to center and appreciate every little thing in this life we live. Life is filled with many small moments, and very few monumental moments in the grand scheme of things. If you learn to appreciate and find happiness in those little moments, you’ll be in a constant state of peace. Be thankful you live the life you live. It could be much worse.

[@3ndt1m3s]

This was a much needed reminder. Thank you very much. You are a scholar and a gentleman!

[@ruinsane100]

The same can be said for every member of the animal kingdom, plant kingdom and fungal kingdom who exist alongside us on this blue rock hurtling through space. Think about that the next time you are about to squash a spider who, out of the unknown number of spiders in your vicinity, just happened to find their way into your house.

[@nicks.12]

Heres some questions to ponder. Is the universe infinite? If so then If its possible to beat these odds once then why not again? Why is it that life is limited to only one time only? Where is it in our understanding of reality that any of us as an individual cannot possibly exist again? Despite the impossible odds, here we all are, so it is possible to exist. So why only once?

[@tg-zo7gk]

I have pondered exactly that and whether it would be 'me' or a clone .

[@teequegaming6447]

Even a even a full clone won't live as you, just live it's own life as a very close representative of your body, he/she will have a super accurate DNA, but will not necessarily pursue the same dreams, lives are lives, they change in an instant.

[@Montu96]

@nicks.12 If the Universe had a beginning, how can it be infinite. How can something infinite in size come from a point smaller than an atom.

[@parz1v3l]

I didn’t enter this lottery willingly

[@DeadSetOnDestruction]

Thank your parents

[@mut8inG]

Wake up, creator, you. peace+&-💥🎶🌸

[@uguroz3745]

​@@DeadSetOnDestructionexactly why should i thank them instead of curse them? I didnt want this wicked sick weak life. They just forced me May their sick life get better but guess what they just created suffer in the infinite cycle of pain.

[@kingofkings56067]

Well you dont have to be here....​@uguroz3745

[@whoandwut]

@@uguroz3745 wtf are you saying bro, shit man if its that bad i'm glad I aint you lmao

[@brianpeterson9290]

I get it, but it all seems kinda silly to me. If I don’t exist, I don’t know or care what the odds were. If I do, by definition I “won.” The odds against it happening are pointless.

[@HassanAhmed-rf9xr]

Yes but it still matters. Does a baby who died prematurely understand that he 'lost'? That a suicidal person also understand that they 'won'. We can use mental gymnastics but it's simpler if we just go with either lost or won. The odds aren't for the losers mate, it's for us the winners. The dead, the non existent and those that are inbetween are all for us to compare our odds of existance. It's really for us to compare. The same way it's silly to think that a non existant person would get triggered by this video, in my eyes it's silly for you to even consider those that don't exist because well like you said they don't care. If I don't have the concept of lottery, just being a simple grasshopper should I mention how they don't 'count'. Or how some humans can't find simple clean water, would they count in the lottery odds? Still we know the probability of winning the lottery is low. I for as a muslim wouldn't even consider going to the lottery and many others like me wouldn't. That takes out a small chunk of the human population already. See things just get complicated if you complicate things. But really we're lucky in of itself that we have the mental capacity to compare ourselves to animals with lower mental faculties.

[@gcarv77]

Pretty obvious to me that something greater than ourselves set everything in motion.

[@trailsandbeers]

maybe it was you but you can't remember... 🤔

[@Videofilealways]

Absolutely

[@iemjay]

Unless it’s all a simulation.

[@youknowthis9746]

Even more if it actually is a simulation.

[@markjugson-vx9go]

@iemjay odds are this would actually make the chance of your own existence even lower.

[@martiallaw3575]

@@markjugson-vx9gohow

[@HelloTiggs1]

So many ancient traditions , and now science itself has proclaimed that Spacetime is an illusion- it is our way of trying to get a grip on eternity/ timelessness. If this is so maybe those calculations are not relevant?🤷‍♂️

[@Videofilealways]

Right

[@imagamer4240]

6:52 is one of the most awesome part of this video.

[@alttransport3445]

This is an awesome valuable video ,thanks !

[@logan7024]

Not gonna lie. This channel has really helped with my stress.

[@TrueMeaning]

Legend!

[@trailsandbeers]

I've been alive lots of times, not sure I will come back again; humans are pretty fcuked up now...

[@calvinchew7985]

Just like humans became conscious after birth the cosmos is similarly conscious and the space/time fabric is the nerves ...

[@mikenk2630]

I feel lucky today. I will buy a lottery ticket

[@manuelferreira4345]

Big bang says we already gone and looking back as we continued on

[@Judykag]

😮 completely shook

[@Ganja236]

on top of this vid there's even more factors that happened like the fact that you were either born male or female and that it had to happen in the way it did in every single case of a human life and that no extinction event happened recently and that the previous ones happened in the sequence that it did

[@thattombell]

Great video, well done 🙂

[@Steve197201]

When you say "You", who exactly are you referring to? "You", meaning the body? Or "You", meaning the consciousness behind it all? If "You" means consciousness, what exactly is consciousness, and where does it come from? The odds of us being born is all academic. The real questions should be, who are we really? What is our true nature? What is God, and where did God come from? And why is there something rather than nothing? You were either going to be born or you weren't. There are no odds involved. If God encompasses everything, that includes us. And since there is something rather than nothing, of course we exist. How could we not?

[@frontsidegrinder6858]

Self-realization

[@Montu96]

@Steve197201 God did not come from anywhere. To come from somewhere, means you did not not exist where you already are. If God came from somewhere, then what is that 'somewhere'. If God has to come from a different place, then he would not be God, that 'somewhere' would be God. The answer is, God was always here, and always will be here, he had no beginning, he has no end, he is before infinity, and after infinity, if you can comprehend God, if God has to come from 'somewhere', then that would not be God. The reason God is worthy of worshiping is because of this immense power that he manifests and holds. He is beyond our limited and finite Brain capacity.

[@anneb5603]

When you really contemplate everything it does make me believe in a higher power...

[@noveltycrusade]

A good point to remember ❤

[@laniakeas92]

If I hadn't been born I'd be someone else, it's that simple.

[@osku2290]

That would be ur sibling not u

[@IdowuIsaac-mh5xj]

If it isn’t YOU, then it can never be someone else… The odds of you also being another person is 1 in quadrillions…. You’re specifically you 🎉

[@stlfan1105]

What you meant to say was : 'If I hadn't been born simple, I'd be someone else'

[@laniakeas92]

@@stlfan1105 we all share same conciousness But different personality. So I'd be someone else

[@stlfan1105]

@@laniakeas92 I respectfully disagree.

[@VanityDreamz]

probability is just a measure to guess the outcome of a specific scenario, its not real. everything that has ever happened, couldve only happened the way it did happen. well, at least in this version of reality

[@Zenoandturtle]

Anthropic Principle, or Observation Selection Effect, proposed in 1957, by Robert Dicke renders any odds observed by the observer to singularity. Our world shows all signs of a video game within video game ad infinitum pixelated at Plank scale.

[@CompleteProducer84]

Want to hear something crazier? If the universe is infinite, the odds of each of us being alive (or born in the future) are 100%

[@kyriacostheofanous1445]

Infinite regress. Impossible.

[@HashebAnzar]

Have you ever contemplated the fundamental question of being and living? Have you ever asked yourself, "I am, but how am I responsible for my being? Where would I have gone to complain if I did not happen to be? Where are they who are not, going to-complain? If I am, I am; if I am not, I am not. It is okay as I am, but what would I do if I am not as I am?" - Osho

[@michelventura2507]

This is why I firmly believe we live an infinite number of times in an infinite universe, because I'm simply nowhere near that lucky.

[@Videofilealways]

Good guess with no facts to back it up

[@yt_hatescrime_data4301]

The odds of me being born is 1 : infinity

[@Montu96]

I don't mind existing, I just hate that Life is such an adverse journey, for all living beings on this Planet. We have disease, physical or mental disabilities, having to work mundane jobs to make a living, having to see deaths of loved ones, having to see children suffer, even animals suffer in the wild to a degree. Like, Life is definitely a mystery, even miraculous in itself, but i don't like the suffering part of Life. I just every living being already lived in a state of paradise, and never ever had to deal with any suffering.

[@jartho3996]

The odds of me existing are 1. Time and space was only ever going to allow it, since the start there were no possible alternatives

[@unidentified5390]

That’s an intriguing way to see it, but that’s also like me saying the chance of me going home and finding a million dollars are 1. I go home and nothing. Let’s say we run this in a simulation in a trillion of the same universes, eventually one you will find a million dollars in your bed in one simulation, and in that universe you say “The odds of me finding the million dollars on my bed was 1 as it’s on my bed as predicted” well in the life your in then, correct it was, but if you look at how many times you ran this hypothetical scenario it’s much lower. Same with life, you may think it was 1 because your existence but there was billions of chances you wouldn’t be

[@jartho3996]

@@unidentified5390 The thing is, if there is any universe in which you go home and don't find a million dollars on your bed, then if you run the simulation in a trillion of **the same** universes , you will never find the million dollars. you would have to change something about the universe for something different to happen. so chance is basically just how particles were arranged at the creation of the universe

[@mut8inG]

Monty Python has it right.🎶💥🌸

[@Zenoandturtle]

Eric Idle’s song in ‘The Meaning of Life.’

[@colindonington6568]

I thought this video was more about how wonderful it is to be a human being. Such a complicated body. So impossibly complex, those immune systems. Then there's the phenomenon of self awareness. Death is certainly something I should fear. And yet, even here there is wonder, stacked on wonder... Jesus says "Eye has not seen nor has ear heard what God has prepared for those that love him" Paul gives some explanation of how that next life comes about in Corinthians.

[@tg-zo7gk]

Thank you for putting it so well. If we take this further can we draw conclusions that it is not chance that 'you' or I are in existence at this particular time? In other words we are meant to be here ... for a purpose and shall be here again..and again as the universe us infinite yet the chances of being here are slightly less than infinite..

[@bloatedsodium7301]

So you’re telling me there’s a chance?

[@theenclave4981]

Dumb and Dumber reference 😂

[@paulbee2812]

And yet you still don't know the meaning of death, which will eventually give the meaning of life

[@nicholasrosa3827]

Or 100% if there are infinite realities/dimensions.

[@jeroen3657]

This is the correct answer or one could say it is irrelevant.

[@unraveledultimatefate]

and the odds of being gifted.

[@SWFL_Adventures]

Given enough chances I was bound to exist

[@tanveermajid6330]

Everything is a surprise but we make no sense!

[@nebyuabu9083]

I hate Depression. Let's fight it with words! Give it your uttermost bLow! 👎

[@Vlog4dogs]

Then multiply that by the amount of infinite planets and galaxies

[@logan7024]

Love how they add that .8 like we know exactly when life began. Better trying to cure a virus. Lol oh wait

[@AlpnzAMV]

12 is not a random guess thats why there is .8 at end.

[@ballajaja]

And what are the odds of me watching this video...

[@theplayersclub1126]

GOD!

[@Folkstone1957]

The odds for my being alive is %100. I’m here.

[@TBguitar]

You cannot base odds AFTER THE FACT, thats logically cheating.

[@Folkstone1957]

@@TBguitar There is no such thing as “logically cheating” & I didn’t “base odds” on anything. So perhaps you can clarify what you mean.

[@TBguitar]

@@Folkstone1957 you just said "odds for my being alive is %100 " so what are you basing the odds on?

[@Folkstone1957]

@@TBguitar I exist, do you not understand that ?

[@TBguitar]

@@Folkstone1957 don't chg the subject, re read what you said about 100%

[@saamiafarhat]

Allah says in the Qur'an, "Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation of the day and night there are signs for people of reason. ˹They are˺ those who remember Allah while standing, sitting, and lying on their sides, and reflect on the creation of the heavens and the earth ˹and pray˺, “Our Lord! You have not created ˹all of˺ this without purpose." -Surah Al-Imran (190-191)

[@contessaannavonfunk6166]

❤❤❤

[@TornadoOfSouls777]

Big Bang aka God

[@arigold3333]

Big Bang is BS

[@Videofilealways]

Right

[@gt-c-]

* * All this is "good to know"...BUT NOBODY CAN SAY WHAT WAS BEFORE THE SINGULARITY, BEFORE THE BIG-BANG...what was it? ...................And if God created the Universe...OK, but WHO CREATED GOD...??? ........................................... NOTHING CAN BE CREATED FROM NOTHING...!!! * *

[@Videofilealways]

Actually the belief in God says thatthere is a realm outside of what we can see , touch and measure - that is where God exists and where we have a chance of going if we seek Him

[@adamr8628]

The most important decision and the whole reason for existing is to either accept or reject Jesus. you can be forgiven and you can live forever in paradise, or you can reject Jesus and live in eternal suffering. if you reject Jesus without even thinking about it, you have made a seriously bad decision. it's worth it for everyone to investigate the truth of the bible and not be misled by people that are trying to take you down the wrong path. it's seriously worth considering and investigating for yourself

[@Richard-darixdax]

In the beginning God😊

[@bryantalexander2359]

From what I know, Islam, Christianity, and Judaism and are the only religions that posit that their God not only had power in the universe but universally created the entire thing. So what’s more reasonable: that all of this in the video happened by chance with 0 exceptions for failure in the early stages or that one of these 3 religions is true?

[@Montu96]

I am inevitable

[@Mustachioed_Mollusk]

You exist…What does that mean now that you know that to be true?

[@randomelvis3359]

1 in 400 trillion

[@presorts]

the odds of us existing are actually 100% because we do exist

[@TBguitar]

You cannot base odds AFTER THE FACT, thats logically cheating

[@jeffreycampbell-rl3gc]

That explains nothing

[@TBguitar]

@@jeffreycampbell-rl3gc It explains everything, you cant base chance after the event!

[@randylahey8153]

i wish i was never born

[@erikschiegg68]

Rather would grow iPhones on trees.

[@drock5404]

Do we really need to "know" how it all began?

[@pig0death]

Its not a globe

[@arigold3333]

Yup. Everyone should know that by now.

[@bartb1014]

The universe is not real bro

[@edups88]

It is real to everything which exists within it. Even if the universe itself is not real, or is simulated, it IS our reality.

[@souravnair5077]

😶😶‍🌫️😳

[@AlaaAchemaoui]

23:112-115: "He will ask ˹them˺, “How many years did you remain on earth?”" "They will reply, “We remained ˹only˺ a day or part of a day. But ask those who kept count.”" "He will say, “You only remained for a little while, if only you knew." "Did you then think that We had created you without purpose, and that you would never be returned to Us?”"

[@drock5404]

Kind of makes creationism more believable, in my opinion.

[@AusDenBergen]

Creationism is cartoonishly juvenile.

[@Deewood612]

@@AusDenBergen Good job. Instead of enlightening us on the impossibility of why we exist, you just criticize another’s thoughts. You are a net negative.

[@gcarv77]

Absolutely. For us to understand God is like an Ant understanding humans.

[@AusDenBergen]

@@Deewood612 that's because I'm not pretentious enough to pretend to know. And I will call bullshit when I see a used car salesman trying to sell a lemon. Keep someone from getting taken for a ride, net positive.

[@Deewood612]

@@AusDenBergen So virtuous. Thanks for being the hero no one wants.

[@doctorbryan954]

The Big Bang is as provable as the garden of eden.

[@ericneiman5556]

Ji8u788😅

[@atomatman3104]

NOTHING IS ALIVE

[@JH-th9th]

your rock called...it wants you to crawl back under it

[@Mustachioed_Mollusk]

Everything is alive to some extent (caps lock)

[@atomatman3104]

Wake the fuck up, sleep is death. Absolutely you better create another avatar or you won’t be.

[@atomatman3104]

Dead, dead and dead create your avatar now or you won’t exist

[@JH-th9th]

@@atomatman3104 someone is METHED up !!!