The laws of physics.
I may be atypical of atheists in that I'm not at all cool with the idea that I am nothing more than a piece of meat that came into this world in 1959 because my parents decided to fuck one night and am destined to be nothing more than worm food. I do not at all subscribe to the platitudes that the finite nature of our lives bestows special meaning there. Indeed, I view that as a very cruel aspect of reality. Being bestowed life and a desire to continue to live while the current situation makes that impossible is the ultimate cruelty.
Maybe I'm not really that rare and many of my fellow atheists share in that viewpoint but will not admit it. But I won't go there other than to raise the possibility.
I think most of my fellow atheists vastly underestimate how amazing this universe we live in really is. Its laws pf physics limit us but that still leaves us amazing possibilities.
The entire universe may be a simulation - someone's equivalent of a video game.
More advanced beings who were here long before us made it their mission to encode all life in digital form. We are preserved in that way.
I cannot say these things will comfort me much on my death bed as I understand they are just speculation but it is something.
We really do live in an amazing universe. I encourage people to not underestimate what intelligence is capable of.
I may be atypical of atheists in that I'm not at all cool with the idea that I am nothing more than a piece of meat that came into this world in 1959 because my parents decided to fuck one night and am destined to be nothing more than worm food. I do not at all subscribe to the platitudes that the finite nature of our lives bestows special meaning there. Indeed, I view that as a very cruel aspect of reality. Being bestowed life and a desire to continue to live while the current situation makes that impossible is the ultimate cruelty.
Maybe I'm not really that rare and many of my fellow atheists share in that viewpoint but will not admit it. But I won't go there other than to raise the possibility.
I think most of my fellow atheists vastly underestimate how amazing this universe we live in really is. Its laws pf physics limit us but that still leaves us amazing possibilities.
The entire universe may be a simulation - someone's equivalent of a video game.
More advanced beings who were here long before us made it their mission to encode all life in digital form. We are preserved in that way.
I cannot say these things will comfort me much on my death bed as I understand they are just speculation but it is something.
We really do live in an amazing universe. I encourage people to not underestimate what intelligence is capable of.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
