Look again at the picture. There we are, the tiny dot, all humble and that..but what’s going on in the rest of the picture? Bloody nothing. Millions and millions of miles of space for rent. Nothing to see here, under development, not happening. We are the main event. We’re bloody massive.

Let’s take the extreme Christian view of things for a minute here. I’m not encouraging one view or another here, I’m just asking for a momentary suspension/continuation of disbelief/belief (delete as appropriate). As the story goes, God made the world in a few days about 5000 years ago. Good effort, love what he’s done with the place. He has subsequently had about 5000 years (give or take a few miracles and appearing in foodstuffs) just to sit back and do as he pleases. And he’s done absolutely nothing with anything else in this picture. We must be an unbelievable, monumentally stupendous achievement for a supreme being to say, “yep, my work here is done, no point putting up anything else, I’m not going to top that”.

This picture just shows me how significant we are in the universe. After all, if that tiny dot on the picture wasn’t there, there’d be no-one around to appreciate the rest of it.

??? Is that a statement for or against pot smoking? And what pray tell does it have to do with the price of tea in China?

From Andrew Wolf:

“I would rather face a cold reality than delude myself with comforting fantasies” Quoted astropin

“Comforting Fantisies huh vs. Cold reality, neither is true, reality is neither cold nor comforting, it is challenging. when posed the question how can I keep food cold, or how can I heat my home, or even heat food, or any plight of mankind, was the answer a fantasy that was never to be met? No the human strugle overcame it, and it was people gettin together in a positive manner that overcame the problem.”

Are you being obtuse? The point of my statement is that “fantasy” AKA “religion” is never the answer; It’s a delusion that leads to conflict and suffering…..it solves nothing…….yet people find their fantasies to be very comforting (It gives them a possible “out” for death). Reality is “cold” in the sense that their is no “out” for death. I freely admit and face my mortality along with everything else good & bad that reality has to show me.

We, our lives and actions, are such an infinitesimal part of the universe that it really doesn’t matter what we do. So what if we kill each other, burn down the rainforests, turn our planet into a greenhouse that will never again support life? Viewed on such a scale, it’s meaningless.

..”What is the purpose of human existence in the context of the Cosmos?
Vignesh”.

Simple;

1. To survive.

2. To have lunch.

Thats it.

No biggie, guys.

“I would rather face a cold reality than delude myself with comforting fantasies” Quoted astropin

Comforting Fantisies huh vs. Cold reality, neither is true, reality is neither cold nor comforting, it is challenging. when posed the question how can I keep food cold, or how can I heat my home, or even heat food, or any plight of mankind, was the answer a fantasy that was never to be met? No the human strugle overcame it, and it was people gettin together in a positive manner that overcame the problem.

Weither or not there is some huge signifigance, and power that eludes us is not my problem, I am more worried about my fellow man, the ailments that plague them, and the dictators that hurt them. Live, grow strong, and pass it on.