Is wanting to exist irrational?

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Is our desire to continue existing just our survival instincts messing with us?

Our instincts combine to form survival.

Okay, what if a person was born by some accident of nature without a survival instinct but was otherwise normal. Would they see life or death as the preferable state?

One with a lack of the survival instinct, would not have preferences.

the death instinct is the urgency to remove pain and danger.

the life instinct is the acceptance of non existence.

i know it sounds counter intuitive, but it is the case (i believe).

we all have things that prevent us from being where we truly want to be.
they are obstacles that we wish to be gone.

the experience of life is the experience of being removed from the reality of our perfect expectation (which would be the sensation of discontent, no matter how beautiful).
life always contains things that must be done in order to get ourselves to where we want to be.

death is where nothing must be done at all.

the death instinct is an instinct that forces us to eat when we are hungry, and fight when
we are threatened.

death is the nullification of desire.
the way to nullify desires is to satisfy them.

when we are feeling a strong force of desire, we attempt to perform actions which satisfy and kill those desires.

to kill a desire that arises out of your life's need s is to commit a kind of suicide when you obliterate your desire by slaking it.

there is no desire after death.
after death, all desires are gone.


so to try to kill desires by satisfying their requirements is a death instinct.

you are only alive when you want something you do not have.

when you have all there is to have that you ever wanted , then you go to eternal sleep.


i am really sorry i decided to post. if you do not like what i said, then forget it.
no drama.
i said what i think with my damaged brain and it may go under or over your minds.

probably it will not go through your minds

Witnessed

survival instinct is not something that just is it has grown to be since everything that wanted to die died out.

blast!! ! i just changed the word "to" to "the" and because you posted your interlude, it is written that i edited my post which detracts from its spontenaiety. anyway i witness with interest the sands of this beach of words that roll over my words and bury them automatically and inevitably.

do not whisper your thoughts during a hurricane i guess.