What are your thoughts on this quote?

[CityBoyGoneCountry]

"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds, it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at that inevitable return to our prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred."

~ Richard Dawkins

CityBoyGoneCountry Reviewed by CityBoyGoneCountry on 08-23-2007. What are your thoughts on this quote? "We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the Rating: 5

[ghosty]

i'll respond with another quote...

"there are more of us alive, then have ever lived or have ever died, this was always coming we just didnt read the warning signs" - Building Better Bombs,"Deathships"

[Professor Dan K.]

damn i never really thought about being born as a lottery like that.. but it totally is if you think about it. thats pretty crazy to think about

[pixel]

ive thought about this. the greatest leader the world could ever see may be mopping the floors of your local grocery store and we will never ever know it

[MadSativa]

yeah like the movie the postman that guy was all "I command the army of the new earth, do you know what I did bakc when their was government........I sold copy machines" He was a lunatic dough...I think real leaders can only comeout when needed other wise they must always leave and stay hidden because they are consantly are bieng ridiculed and tested for the wrong things.

[couch-potato]

Yay biology! I'm the #1 sperm! I'm the winner!