Director Roger Nygard traveled the world asking theologians, scientists, skeptics, and everyday people 85 tough questions to try to understand The Nature of Existence! Now that he’s asked the experts, it’s YOUR TURN! To offer your own insights on today’s question, “What is the best thing about existing?“, click the “Leave a Response” button below!
Experiencing life, people, places etc. Feeling the emotions of each moment. Knowing that each day you awaken leaves the opportunity for anything to happen.
Chocolate.
It certainly beats not existing.
Net gain.
If I had to choose just one thing, it’s music.
The freedom to choose what you wish to do in life. Even if you are held in the grasp of circumstances beyond your control, you can rely on the fact that your decisions and choices are your own to make.
For me it is all about thinking about stuff until it takes the shape of understanding.
My Family. My Dog. My Friends.
the ride.
Learning new things in a universe that always has something to teach us. Also, good food, good drink, good friends, good conversation, good neighbors & good books.
Enjoying life, experiencing new things, loving those around you, good food, and even better sex.
Being able to wake up every morning and ask, “Why do I exist.”… that and baseball.
Being able to wake up every morning and ask, “Why do I exist?”… that and baseball.
For me personally- My wife. Red wine. Coffee. Music. The exertion from running or cycling. The thrill of learning new ideas and concepts, finding new challenges.
For us as a species- The fact that we can ask such a question! We are, as far as we know, the only species that ponders these questions and wonders what it all means. We are the only one that says “hey, we exist!” My cat no doubt enjoys her existence immensely, but lacks the capacity to wonder and contemplate that existence. It’s nice to have evolved brains big enough to reach this level of complexity that we can have such self-aware, self-reflective thoughts.
The best thing about existing? Learning.
The best thing about existing is being able to choose.
The best thing about existing is experiencing pleasure.
gaining knowledge to reach your supreme aim.
The honour of experiencing the finite for ‘God’ – all that we experience is experienced by all within the ‘all’.
The surprises, the opportunities, the potential.
Love. And the fact that the everything came from zero!
This is a question I have never considered before. What is the best thing about waking up each morning and getting out of bed? I can see, I can hear, I can think, I can question, I can touch, I can smell, I can taste as fully as I choose, I can know!
Love. It is one historical constant that has been acknowledged since long before the creation of any deity, religious institution, or law. Though many religions and individuals have laid claim to ownership of the origins of this great human factor, love existed and will continue to exist independently of them, though none of them could find credence without love.
What is the best thing about existing? The best thing about existing is to change ourself to be a better person and a better soul.
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Music.
In the grander sense, existing is always preferable to not existing from one’s own personal perspective, though it is not necessarily better for others that we exist rather than not exist. Still, only a seriously defective mind in great need of treatment would prefer to cease existing entirely or to have never existed at all.
That said…my own subjective reason that I find the best about existing…learning. That, or women…either’s good.
Having the opportunity to learn something about how we got here.
To comprehend a deep sense of love, a connection with another human being, is the most important part of existing. Without love, I do not wish to exist.
Love.
I would say to experience beauty that is greater than you thought possible. To be overwhelmed by the magnifience of an experience.
Betterment. Bettering the condition of something, even if it’s your mind via whatever conditions you’re personally receptive to.
We realise what we would miss by not existing and by so doing we appreciate how fortunate we are – even if our existence is not that pleasant.
Enlightenment. Learning that my epidermis is not the boundary of my self, but instead that I am part of something greater. Connect with another person. Look at the stars and know that you are the universe’s way of knowing itself. Meditate and see that your thoughts are not the essence of the self. Become lost in an activity you enjoy.
A full belly and a dry safe place to sleep.
Living life with all its facets, pleasure as well sufferings.
We hardly have a choice
Experiencing love, in any form.
Put yourself in illution of thoughts which were created by the chemical reactions in brain and then feel that we achived something.
Seeing growth in the human spirit
That I exist well past the era of the 1970′s.
The ability to question, to explore the wonder that is existence.
To be aware of ourselves as soul, as love, as joy, as eternal beings of consciousness
to explore
its an endless game we can not loose
again to become ourself
Desire. Desire for knowledge is my latest favorite. I love to learn about science – especially cosmology (galaxies and stars). Another word for it is motivation. Anytime we are motivated, we are engaged, and usually rewarded. I think that’s why people say things like “chocolate”, or “sex”. If we always had whatever we wanted at the snap of a finger, life would be boring. To be engaged in something you enjoy is the best way to “be yourself.”
definitely women and understanding