Enlightened rants...

[WinterHold]

Cats are natural hunters; that's why they are curious. They are derived by interest (like hunger or finding hiding spots), but my question still remains: what drives humans on the other hand, to explore the heavens? what do we have there to care about?

We, too, are natural hunters... and we see birds hunting... and we want to be there with them.

I would say that if you throw a human in the jungle; barehanded, he'll get eaten in no time. But physical features do raise the odds of us being natural hunters, so as topping the food chain. But we can also be vegetarian; or like some modern humans: afraid from blood. You won't find a tiger for example that has a blood phobia.

I think you'll find that not many people yearn to be in the void of space.
We just find beauty in the shapes, the colors... they appear with patterns that seem non-threatening to us, hence our wish to know more, to find out what those things are... like the cat, we investigate.

What about the sun? It is known to burn humans since the dawn of time -it was even used as a method of torture in ancient Arabia-; still people were so fascinated by it to the degree of worshiping it in some cases.

But I never heard about "lava worship". Even though it's shiny and hot too. And falls from mountains. Which is a high place.
But the sun was "Apollo" to the Greeks.

Long ago, man looked up. And saw the sun, the moon and the stars.
All these spin around our heads... some stars seem to be fixed on the black background..... others wander around in strange patterns, the wandering stars, or, in Greek, planētes asteres. Hence we had our planets.

All these twirled around the heads of those people of old. Twirled periodically... like the seasons... like the moon... why such periodicity?

I wouldn't say "the periodicity", but I'll defiantly say the conclusion that the stars is the God they always hear about (since they move around; move=alive), and from that point, polytheism became a standard in all heathen religions. Since many stars exist; then God is not one; he's many. I do believe and think that some religious people wanted to see God.

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Cats are natural hunters; that's why they are curious. They are derived by interest (like hunger or finding hiding spots), but my question still remains: what drives humans on the other hand, to explore the heavens? what do we have there to care about?

If you choose the attractiveness and beauty of the scene; it asks: why is it so attractive; then?
If you choose evolution, then why did humans didn't grow the same feeling to other scenes? especially these days when we discovered the devastating hostility it has for human visitors.

All of nature is not bound to our laws and doesn't move relative to us.



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Elaborate? It will still end up with "Allah did it."

An space doesn't move periodically, it moves constantly. Relativity of space/time is a point of view thing sure, but everything is constantly moving. 

And for the billionth time, and not just to Muslims, but also to Christians and Jews and Buddhists and Hindus. There is not one religion, that when it cant get away with simply quoting their holy words, they try to debunk science. Then when they cant flat out debunk science, they try to claim science matches their club.

God and Allah are the same thing exactly; it's just the word being different in English and Arabic; I'm sure you want to punch me in the face now for saying that

I'm finding more similarities between the disgusting actions of many religious people, which lead to the production of so many different religions, when the belief in a God is the key that should glue us around. Surrendering to that one God is where everybody who believes should gather. Science never said that the universe has no maker. Instead, "many scientists" are not yet sure.