bigspizz;1260332; said:
The headache is called fear...
For me anyways. The feeling of helplessness. If you guys look up "the accretion theory" (quick read) You will understand what I mean when I say, we are not in control. Our planet has an expiration date, beyond our control, and like you said our "instincts" can sense this. Arow, you are speaking my language!!!!
The way I see it is, does it really matter? Is it even relevant? It is so far into the future that our current methods of using our perceptions to draw some of these conclusions is kind of irrelevant. Kind of like a baby who hasnt been born yet,, who at the same time is thinking about what life has to offer. Or what life has to offer---after death. Really no physical meaning to all that. We're trying to predict what happens in the almost infinite future(for our purposes anyway we can consider it infinite), but that realm is so much more different than the realm that we live in that sometimes I wonder if it makes sense to go through all those complicated reasoning anyway.. Kind of like the saying if you pay peanuts you get monkeys.. well, if we used irrelevant logic then we get irrelevant results.. The dinosaurs could have never predicted global warming for example, so who are we to try to predict the fate of the universe? I am not an atheist by the way, and sometimes I feel that people sometimes can feel too absolute in their way of thinking.
Interesting quote BTW Straight from Wikipedia btw:
" Paul Erdos said
God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers. [Referring to Albert Einstein's famous belief that "God does not play dice with the universe."]
In a 1975 lecture, Don Zagier commented
There are two facts about the distribution of prime numbers of which I hope to convince you so overwhelmingly that they will be permanently engraved in your hearts. The first is that, despite their simple definition and role as the building blocks of the natural numbers, the prime numbers grow like weeds among the natural numbers, seeming to obey no other law than that of chance, and nobody can predict where the next one will sprout. The second fact is even more astonishing, for it states just the opposite: that the prime numbers exhibit stunning regularity, that there are laws governing their behavior, and that they obey these laws with almost military precision." "
The way I see it is, the only really Truth in this world is when that truth has contradictions.. You know those contradictory quotes we hear everyday, things such as If you want to be successful, "Act always as if the future of the Universe depended on what you did ,while laughing at yourself for thinking whatever you do makes any difference". The more contradictions it has, the truer a statement or experience in life is, dont you think? Like how to treat women. You have to treat them nice if you want them to like you, but you must also not be too nice and be an ******* if you want some respect. You follow either one too much and ignore the other, youre just asking for trouble in life. Work too hard--you get burned out and your life fazes out like a match. Get too lazy--you end up a loser in life and waste away.
BTW I dont have any thing related to a liberal arts background and I have never read a philosophy book, but thinking about these things dont need any education in it, just good old common sense. If you cant explain something in an easy to understand way, you dont understand something at all.
Anyway, this is just what I belive. The majority of religions out there are based on nothing other than beliefs. Some people's entire lives revolve around religions that are completely factless. No one has ever seen God, yet so many people believe in Him with absolutely zero evidence. Also, I have noticed that most people in this thread are thinking small. Like bacteria. I think we need to think bigger. I think that humans think too highly of themselves. We have a hard time believing that there could be something bigger and smarter than ourselves. I think that we would have a hard time thinking that we are a small part of something much larger and more important than everything we know. I also believe that what we know about space is so insignificant, it would be impossible to scientifically determine what is actually out there.
