RE: God, Energy and Matter
September 2, 2019 at 9:24 am
(This post was last modified: September 2, 2019 at 9:27 am by polymath257.)
(September 1, 2019 at 10:31 pm)Lek Wrote:(August 31, 2019 at 9:58 pm)polymath257 Wrote: But again, you are looking for some transcendent meaning. So here's a question: why is being a creation of some deity meaningful to you? Why is that deity having a plan for you meaningful to you? Why are those things that convey a sense of personal worth to you?
These things are meaningful to me because we as humans always have a purpose for the things we do. We don't just do things "because". We don't "just go" to work every day. We go because we need to make money to survive and acquire things and so on. Everything I do has a purpose. The idea of a purposeless universe doesn't jibe with my mentality. Everything I perceive on this earth has a purpose. In the same way, I look for the purpose of the existence of the universe.
As far as God having a plan for me, I just think his plan for me is to return to him. It's important to me because my ultimate desire is to reunite with the one from whom I originated,.
Once again, you are limited to this one, very small planet and trying to generalize to the whole universe. You proceed with purpose in your actions because *you* have chosen what you want to do. The vast majority of even the Earth isn't 'purposeful'. And once you get off of this little ball, the universe as a whole shows nothing even remotely like a purpose.
Once again, when the Earth was considered to be the center of the universe and the universe itself was seen to be less than, say, a couple of billion miles across, it made some sense to think of ourselves as important in the grand scheme of things.
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But the real world isn't like that. If we made a scale model of the universe where the distance from the sun to the earth is an inch, the earth itself would be invisible. The solar system would be about three yards across. And the nearest star other than the sun would be over 4 miles away. Our galaxy would be around 100,000 miles across (on this scale, mind you). And there are hundreds of billions of galaxies that we know about.
Thinking that humans are special in any way is worse that a single ant in some ant colony in the Amazon thinking it is important to how the Earth functions.
Laughable
