What do you think the chance is of being born human?
535266
The Buddha gave this image - imagine a vast ocean (representing the lower rebirths) and a yoke floating upon it, tossed about by the waves. There is a blind turtle (representing ignorant beings) who lives at the bottom. The chances of the turtle slipping its neck through the yoke are extremely small - similarly the chances of obtaining a human rebirth. \n\nAlso, when you think about the number of sentient beings... e.g just thinking about all the animals - including microscopic ones, there are so many of them compared to so few humans, if there are as many animals as the stars at night then there are as many humans as stars in the daytime. In this way we can see how difficult it is to obtain a human life...\n\nOf course, now that we have this precious human life then the best way to ensure human rebirth next time is to practice virtue, etc... \n\nHope that helps
1136910
I like being me, I have no other frame of reference to think about being any other race than I am.\n\nI was born a cat, and I will live as a cat until the day I die.\n\nAnd I will be happy that the creator of all things on earth made me who I am.\n\nBeing born as a butterfly may have been nice, but they don't get to do all the fun things I can do as a cat.\n\nJust be happy that you are who the creator made you to be, and develop yourself to be the best person you can be every day, and you won't have to wish or wonder how life is like being someone different.
916031
Humanity will be lucky if they get a viable breeding population established off planet to ensure Human survival in the face of natural or man-made disaster here on Earth. You probably haven't got a chance to even colonize your Moon or Mars.  Over the centuries, your planet was a curious place to visit once or twice and was not considered very interesting . Sure, your wars showed us how undeveloped you are as a species.  Your infantile,(in cosmic terms) dependence on god concepts does not bode well for you and neither does your penchant to breed beyond your planet's ability to sustain you. We are now showing an interest in you because it is not often that we get to observe a species commit suicide. You are so close to maturing as a sentient species and it will be a shame to see you kill yourselves. There are just not enough of you becoming rational enough to force the issue. You let the least among you determine your fate, so be it.
54984
Self-awareness, consciousness, emotion can arguably be found in animals, and yet clearly, they are not human. So humanity is not as easily defined as the presence of a given set of traits.\nPersonally, I like the dictionary definition. A member of the species of Homo Sapiens. Going by that, unless your robot is activated via incubation by a human female for 9 months and expelled violently into the world soon thereafter, I won't be calling it human anytime soon.
81064
No. We don't even have that information for the human species as whole, much less for any individual.\n\nIf you have a few thousand dollars to spend you could get your genome sequenced completely. That stil wouldn't tell you what traits you have and wouldn't even tell you very much about what genes you have. But thatis the absolute best you can hope for.
1067039
nice philosophical question - the answer is the same as: \nwhich came first:  human being OR spermatozoide??\n\nso it's all a question of talking for hours like policians and never answering the real problematic!
962969
Homo Sapiens Sapiens (although the "sapiens" of many humans are sometimes questionable.)
1008179
every person that is conceived is born for a reason, even if its one small thing, we all do something to make the world a better place, or atleast i hope everyone else tries to :l
199588
Some people have these spontaniously.  If your not one of those lucky people you can practice certian visualization techniques that can increase the likelyhood of your having one or more.  Those of you who think these are not real will never experience them because your close minded to the posibilities of the human potential and have likely accepted life the way it has been fed to you over the course of your life.  We are so much more than we appear.  I for one cannot accept the idea that we are created in our gods image and can do no more than physicaly manipulate our environment.  there must be more to us and enough people over the course of recorded time have shown certain abilities be it psychic , seemingly super human strength under situations of great durress, remote viewing that is real enough that our government funded its use for years under the "stargate" program.  All of these things point to the latent human abilities.  Good luck to you.  You can do whatever you think you can...and the opposite of that statement is true also
568048
Human are born because of studidity, live with stupidity, and die in studity. \nHUMAN ARE STUPID. End of story.
166354
God created the first human beings. everybody else is a product of procreation.
540323
Demographers have come up with estimates ranging between 69 billion and 110 billion humans. This gives us a spread of 41 billion, a pretty formidable margin of error. \n\nA complication, among scientists at least, is that we do not know precisely when our primate ancestors became human. Many researchers have arbitrarily settled on one million years ago, even though our own subset of the genus Homo, H. sapiens sapiens, did not emerge until around 40,000 years ago.\n\nIf the paleolithic crowd (1 million years to 25,000 years ago) strikes you as too crude for admission to the communion of saints, subtract 36 billion or so from the figures above.
576896
I don't think we'll get a second chance.  I'm not sure there's anything in the bible to support that.\n\nAnd yes, no one knows.  What about people in comas?  What about when they come out of them?  What about miscarriages, do they have souls?  What about children born without a nervous system (i.e. no brains)?  What about when twins are conceived and one child end up growing into the other(called fetus in fetu, kind of gross, actually)?  The bond between the soul and body is one of the most ellusive, yet real aspects to humanity that we will never be able to answer.  Being a medical student I'm going to have a lot of thinking to do on that question in a few years.
301898
I believe certain people and events are written in the stars the day we are conceived. I believe in soul mates and life purpose. I believe I was put on this earth to help people be healthier. That is a deal I made before I was born. I think that we have total control over what happens in between. God would be bored silly if he/she knew everything that was going to happen all the time. Think how much fun we are to watch from the outside. :)
225669
When thereis a mutation in the body cell. I COULD be past on. it's not a 100% chance. but it's possible. \ncan you give me the 10 points since i'm the only one who answered it .
533001
I WAS BORN. EVEN WITH WHAT I'VE LIVED WITH AND THROUGH, I'M STILL ALIVE. I STILL HAVE A CHANCE TO FIGURE THIS LIFE OUT AND MY PLACE IN IT.....PEACE AND LOVE TO ALL....I THINK I'LL GO HUG A TREE NOW...HAHA
1131869
In reality, the probability of being born a mutant is extremely slim. The chances of those mutants having powers are even lower. Therefore, I seriously doubt they do exist.