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I would think yes. Existence has nothing to do with our reason. We are truly microscopic. Life exists because life exists. That is all the reason there is.

You can see why mankind invented religion can't you?
 
I most certainly do. However, I do believe that religion, in its initial concept was not the destructive commodity it is today. It was a way for humans to make sense of what they could not understand. Sadly though, it has been hijacked and preverted by the wickedness of those in power.

Totally agree. As you say, all too easy to be used by humans for other dangerous purposes. And we are, after all very tribalistic.
But I wonder if there will ever be a time when science can provide answers for everything we do not currently understand too well. But there's one big question it never will, that's for sure - what happens when you die.
 
And, let's face it, it's somewhat girly. :rolleyes:


I am not afraid of death. I don't relish the pain and agony that often accompany it, but I am not so terrified as to go looking for philosopher's stones, elixirs, or undead patrons to avoid it, either.
 
I don't understand why we were granted the consciousness to be aware of our own mortality. Even non-sapient species fear it. The one thing that is inevitable.

You don't know when though. Imagine if you did. What effect would it have on your life and how you lived it?

This thread is turning dark now.
 
Went to the beach with nephew and niece last week. Nephew (7) flying kite, niece (4) fascinated and jealous. So she does the only reasonable thing. She finds a 1FT square hunk of broken up asphalt, (somehow) manhandles it over next to her brother.....and stands on top of it, arms raised above her head, reaching for the kite. Still not tall enough, but more determined than ever, she started looking around for something else to add to the pile. True story, more delightful than any words I could find would convey.:D


Better?
 
Thus that which is the most awful of evils, death, is nothing to us, since when we exist there is no death, and when there is death we do not exist.’ Epicurus

I do not fear death, however, how I am going to go is cause for dismay.
 
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