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The paradox Anonymous 26/07/04(Sat)06:16 No. 17352
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Imagine an infinite corridor of doors. Exactly one of them leads to a bad world; every other door leads to a good one. You open the doors one by one, and every world you find is good. You keep searching for the bad world, but every door reveals only another good one.

So where is the door to the bad world?


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Anonymous 26/07/04(Sat)09:23 No. 17353

The mathematical probability of you finding a single door out of a finite amount of doors is 1 out of however many doors.

If there's a million doors, it's 1/1,000,000

That's infinitely better odds than finding one door in an infinte amount of doors, because it's almost a certainty that you will never find the bad door, since you can search for an infinite amount of time.

One out of infinite is simplified to "almost zero", as in there is an almost 0% chance you will find it.


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Anonymous 26/07/04(Sat)10:48 No. 17354

What if you think about it philosophically instead of mathematically?


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Anonymous 26/07/04(Sat)11:19 No. 17355

>>17354
There's a few ways to think about it then.

Personally, I like this one: Humans will ruin a perfectly good utopia over anxiety about one bad door.

Another is for all intents and purposes, the bad door doesn't exist, and your reality should be defined by what you experience, not the worst possible outcome. An unfound evil has no bearing on your infinite life, and searching for such evil would be an incredibly stupid waste of time. Searching for it is like voluntarily becoming Sisyphus.

The bad door is in your head. It's a ghost of evolution, the paranoia of humanity and the lack of contentment due to the possibility of a bad outcome that isn't even close to inevitable.


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Anonymous 26/07/04(Sat)12:17 No. 17356

Based on your interpretation, what would you do if you were the one opening those doors? Would you stop searching?


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Anonymous 26/07/05(Sun)01:19 No. 17360

>>17355
What’s even more fucked up is that humans often rationalize the bad as “necessary for personal growth”. More often than not, bad things often make people lose their resolve.


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Anonymous 26/07/05(Sun)01:20 No. 17361

>>17355
This unfortunately the way that humans do childrearing.


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Anonymous 26/07/05(Sun)14:59 No. 17362

>>17356
I would stop actively searching for it and choose contentment.

Contentment is the key to a happy life, no matter the situation.
It's why frameworks like Christianity place such a massive emphasis on contentment, for example.
Having faith that a higher power is on your side helps you frame suffering not as meaningless, but as a temporary trial preceding a reward.
That kind of faith is the ultimate shield against slipping into nihilism, the dread that everything is for nothing and that the termination of consciousness is all we have to look forward to.

For contentment, you have two choices really:

Stop: What I would personally choose. Find total peace in the good worlds you've already found, and let go of the need to seek out threats.

Continue, but without fear: Accept that even if you do eventually stumble upon the bad door, you are an immortal being.
Whatever it throws at you, you can handle it.

If you have that second mindset, you might even look forward to the relief of putting the bad door behind you.
You can view it like a tedious battle you know you're going to win, but just want to get over with so you can move on.

But above all else, always look for contentment.


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Anonymous 26/07/05(Sun)15:05 No. 17363

>>17360
>>17361
"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" is such a stupid idea, because real trauma usually just leaves people exhausted and broken.
This is why in >>17362 I said I would choose to stop and find contentment in the doors I've already opened.


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Anonymous 26/07/06(Mon)05:58 No. 17366

>>17363
People like to glorify suffering as a way to cope with never having any prospects or fucking it up big-time


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Anonymous 26/07/06(Mon)23:04 No. 17367

>>17366
Nigga, if you didn't glorify suffering, you wouldn't be here, trust me.


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Anonymous 26/07/07(Tue)06:40 No. 17368

>>17367
I beg to differ.
Glorifying suffering is mainly a way for people to cope with not being special, or rather that they cannot handle the realization that being human means that they’re still subject to the laws of nature and that all their hopes and dreams are not entirely within their control.



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