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the reason for everything
- Thread starter stef 730
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Why must there be a reason? Apart from basic physical properties of nature? That need for a reason is just an emotional crutch for people who lack some form of human connection in their lives. And no, I don't count gathering with thirty other people and singing as inherently being a form of human connection; people in such a situation may still not feel connected with the others. Or at least they may only feel the comforting sense of fitting in, which is also an emotional crutch. I think one can most fully feel their place in the universe (such a place I think can only be defined by their own thoughts, not by society or other peoples' opinions) from within, not by measuring their social activities. Searching for a reason, feeling good about singing with a bunch of other people (Yes, I have a rather cynical view of organised religions), whatever it is, it's all just external stuff. If there really IS a reason for it all, then I think that reason is probably different for each person, as it should be.
By the way, I'm not sure it is reasonable to say there is a limit to what science can reveal, or do for us. Science is the act of humans trying to learn, to understand the universe. Why would that have a limit? Our understanding of the universe improves every day.
By the way, I'm not sure it is reasonable to say there is a limit to what science can reveal, or do for us. Science is the act of humans trying to learn, to understand the universe. Why would that have a limit? Our understanding of the universe improves every day.
Perhaps we will never no more than what is posible in our state of existence.
Death will come to us all and we shall see if something is after, if not we simply do not exist anymore. You won't have to worry about anything anymore so i feel this is not something to cause to much distress.
We may just be the extention of life on earth, a small piece of what has grown, we may be the first chance for life to get of earth and spread out to other planets, life....trying to survive, earth cannot support life forever.
You, me, we are all just units to a greater whole. Life tests its boundaries, the best options survive, and evolution happens.
I personally support evolution, the theory, we obviously cannot have concrete facts about everything. So you have to conclude some things from your own observations.
Life is a giant living unit, earth in itself is somewhat of a lifeform.
Each unit in a species arrives with strengths and weaknesses, the slight edge in a whole group will nudge out the slight weaknesses, and over time it evolves.
Look at people, we have different races, evolving to our specific regions, white people, out of the sun for a large amount of time being int eh north, less skin color, black people, evolved to need color, you can see these changes happening.
Proven designs, the cockroach, still here over great amounts of time.
Everything in a constant state of change. We are just a small drop in the bucket, enjoy it well it lasts!
Death will come to us all and we shall see if something is after, if not we simply do not exist anymore. You won't have to worry about anything anymore so i feel this is not something to cause to much distress.
We may just be the extention of life on earth, a small piece of what has grown, we may be the first chance for life to get of earth and spread out to other planets, life....trying to survive, earth cannot support life forever.
You, me, we are all just units to a greater whole. Life tests its boundaries, the best options survive, and evolution happens.
I personally support evolution, the theory, we obviously cannot have concrete facts about everything. So you have to conclude some things from your own observations.
Life is a giant living unit, earth in itself is somewhat of a lifeform.
Each unit in a species arrives with strengths and weaknesses, the slight edge in a whole group will nudge out the slight weaknesses, and over time it evolves.
Look at people, we have different races, evolving to our specific regions, white people, out of the sun for a large amount of time being int eh north, less skin color, black people, evolved to need color, you can see these changes happening.
Proven designs, the cockroach, still here over great amounts of time.
Everything in a constant state of change. We are just a small drop in the bucket, enjoy it well it lasts!
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"Where did everything come from?"
I believe it was the philosopher Haempel that argued that this question is in principle unanswerable. Given any possible entity X that could provide an answer to the question, it would just reraise the question: where did X come from?
So, at the basis of this all there simply is something, term it matter, that can not be understood in any more primitive terms, which is not based on anything else, and which is uncreatable and indestructable.
(don't intermix the stuff called matter here with the physical term matter, because physical matter is not all there is, and physical matter is not indestructable nor uncreatable).
I believe it was the philosopher Haempel that argued that this question is in principle unanswerable. Given any possible entity X that could provide an answer to the question, it would just reraise the question: where did X come from?
So, at the basis of this all there simply is something, term it matter, that can not be understood in any more primitive terms, which is not based on anything else, and which is uncreatable and indestructable.
(don't intermix the stuff called matter here with the physical term matter, because physical matter is not all there is, and physical matter is not indestructable nor uncreatable).
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Another alternative: Perhaps there is no reason for the existence of everything. Maybe everything just kinda happened unplanned.
yeah like that wasnt a lazy attempt at explaining the universe.
"yeah guys forget your theory and philosophical ponderings, the universe just kinda happened this one time"
peace.