Share your worldview?

[Whateverist]

Wow. Thanks for the replies. 

The reason I didn't initially open it up to a group discussion is that the assignment is to interview one person. But I'd certainly like to get other thoughts if you'd like to share.  If so, below are the starting questions I was going to ask - on 4 general topics. If not, just ignore them...

Origin
How do you think we got here - how did humans originate?
Where did the universe/world come from? Big Bang, God, other?

Meaning
What do you think the purpose of life is?
Does human life have meaning? If so, what gives that meaning?
Are humans more significant than other creatures? Are we special? Why?

Morality
Why do we have moral ethics? Why do some things ‘seem’ bad (like murder)
Do good and bad exist? How do you determine what is good or bad?
Are good and evil subjective or universal/absolute?
If you don't believe in sin, do you ever feel guilty?

Destiny
What happens to us after death?
Is there a heaven / hell? 
If so, how do you get there? Is there anything specific you have to do?

If you're young and uncomfortable so far from the familiar, I'll understand.  Otherwise I hope you'll weigh in with your own thoughts if any of these responses inspire you.

Origins:

I know humans are classified as apes and some would say are best thought of as a third chimp species along with Pan trogodytes and Pan paniscus.  But we have our very own scientific classification, Homo and who am I to argue?  Before that we were definitely still mammals, but life is always evolving.  Go back far enough and presumably we come to an inorganic/organic transformation.  Some think something greater must have caused that to happen but here atheists are pretty much in agreement that there was no creator.  While no one has yet duplicated that transformation in the laboratory, we pretty much all assume it happened naturally without any tinkering by a mega-being.  But exactly how remains a mystery so far.  (I can live with mysteries .. and do.)

The known universe is thought to have come from one singularity.  Like some but not all others here my hunch is energy/matter/space/time has always existed in some form.  But it is currently unknowable whether there is anything beyond that one singularity or not.  For some questions you just have to accept not having access to the answers and this is definitely one of those - at least so far.


Meaning:

This is too complex to do justice to in this format.  Just know that what people call meaning is enjoyed by people of your faith and people of other faiths as well as by people like me who reject the supernatural.  


Morality:

The subject bores me.  In my eccentric opinion it is a subject for child rearing and human development.  At some point it isn't really useful to dwell on it as adults.  Feel free to join the legions (including the majority of atheists) who disagree with me on that point.  

Just to be clear, I'm not saying it ever becomes unimportant.  But at some point we become as expert as we need to be.  There is no need (and likely no way) to create a moral decision tree in advance to handle all of life's decisions.  Besides, simple rule following is not the fullest expression of moral development.  Far from it.


Destiny:

My thinking about destiny is likewise eccentric but this time I come down closer to you faithful.  To be fair, I'm probably not thinking about that word the same way most xtians and atheists do because I don't think there is anything inevitable about ones destiny.  But I don't think all pathways are equal for me.  Rather, I think there are optimal choices for each one of us which we have to discover.  We don't arbitrarily decide them or, if we do, we're doing it badly.  

But of course I don't believe there is anything whatsoever which is 'supernatural' .. so no heaven, hell, judgement or afterlife.  Life is where it's at, right here and right now.  This is what counts.  If you're going to live a good life you do it in the light of what it actually is, not as a byproduct of a fantasy.  And you only get this one shot at it so make it count.