Hoppy Easter

[Aeolwind]

As an aside, here is an interesting article. Theologian or not, this is wicked dope.

http://www.time.com/time/specials/pa...910139,00.html

I remember reading the Time article in reference here. I think overall, I just can't put my faith in the fact that us being here is one astronomically oddity that is in essence a cosmic joke. To strike a correlation; most folks look for adversity. They strive on it as they feel overcoming it gives them a sense of purpose. If all of that is for naught, then why do we live and die?

[Ektar]

Originally Posted by Aeolwind [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

To strike a correlation; most folks look for adversity. They strive on it as they feel overcoming it gives them a sense of purpose. If all of that is for naught, then why do we live and die?

Gonna go out front and say it, I didn't read the article. I'm not a big reader. I'm currently in an eq withdrawal phase and perhaps will get to it later.

However my thought on this line~ Religion is a big part of rationalizing the universe in that it gives people a sense of purpose. If people realized life is meaningless they wouldn't do shit. Think about being terminal and dying in a month. Then add on top there is no god or afterlife. Only thing ya got left is "leaving your mark on the world." And lemme take that away from ya real fast - you no longer exist so who gives a fuck. You have no consciousness; no being. What's the difference if your name is in a textbook, or your children are happy.. or whatev. You don't exiiiiist.

Why do we live? Meh, just kinda happened.. proteins combined or some crap? Evolution is just some passive thing that occurred because every being along the line rationalized his existence to have purpose. Perhaps it's even a PART of evolution - just like he with black fur survived for whatever reason, he with the natural tendency to rationalize his existence survived because he cared more.
So I mean, that's why we live... we live because of the uncountable mutations that occurred along the line to bring us to how we are now. Why do we die? Well, because we expire aaand whatever else science came up with. No one's adapted to death yet!

But I mean, the bottom line being we're not even a blip on the scheme of the universe. Consciousness happened to spark and evolve to what it is today.. but it could have just not and whatthefuckever.