05-22-2011, 11:17 AM
I'd like to know why people seem bent on this fixation on world destruction involving the deaths of billions of people, including innocent children? Like it has to happen or it will happen because some one over 1,500 yrs wrote down some ancients scribblings with no evidence and no real idea about how the world really works. I boggles my mind that these ideas still grip peoples minds in the modern age and make people behave so foolishly and waste their lives on such drivel.
Here's my prediction for the future after this latest waste of time. 2012 will come and go. We will all still be here in 2013, the world will continue to orbit the sun, years will come and go. It will continue to orbit the sun for billions of years as it has done for the 4.5 billion years it has done already. The Earth will go on with or without us. And if we do suffer some form of extinction, the Universe won't miss us either. It will continue to expand and cool off.
We are not special, there is no god, or gods. We should enjoy what short time we have, devote our time trying to expand our knowledge and develop humanity to the apex of our abilities. This above anything else should be our ultimate goal.
I know I didn't make to too many friends here when I expressed this POV sometime ago. However I stand by the idea and opinion that I base my life based on experience, sound facts, testable ideas, knowledge and evidence. Without any of the above its all wishful and even sometimes, dangerous thinking.
But if people are going to express their beliefs about these things, then I in turn hold on to the right to express the knowledge and information I have collected regarding the reality of our existence.
Peace.
Here's my prediction for the future after this latest waste of time. 2012 will come and go. We will all still be here in 2013, the world will continue to orbit the sun, years will come and go. It will continue to orbit the sun for billions of years as it has done for the 4.5 billion years it has done already. The Earth will go on with or without us. And if we do suffer some form of extinction, the Universe won't miss us either. It will continue to expand and cool off.
We are not special, there is no god, or gods. We should enjoy what short time we have, devote our time trying to expand our knowledge and develop humanity to the apex of our abilities. This above anything else should be our ultimate goal.
I know I didn't make to too many friends here when I expressed this POV sometime ago. However I stand by the idea and opinion that I base my life based on experience, sound facts, testable ideas, knowledge and evidence. Without any of the above its all wishful and even sometimes, dangerous thinking.
But if people are going to express their beliefs about these things, then I in turn hold on to the right to express the knowledge and information I have collected regarding the reality of our existence.
Peace.