RE: Why your exsistence is more worthless than you previousy thought it was.
February 5, 2014 at 3:30 pm
I figure that my life and accomplishments will be worthless to me the moment I die. Until then they have meaning to me and I will try to enjoy my life and bring some joy to the lives of others, even though those will also cease to mean anything to me when I die.
Yeah, some time in the far future our Sun will explode and swallow up the Earth. By the time that happens humanity will probably have been extinct for a very long time. All of this will take place long before the whole universe spits out its last iota of energy and goes dark forever and ever. Or maybe not. Either way, I won't be around to experience it. So I guess my existence and my actions will cease to have any meaning and have been utterly futile. But until then, there are cheeseburgers to eat, video games to play, and porn sites to whack off to.
Yeah, some time in the far future our Sun will explode and swallow up the Earth. By the time that happens humanity will probably have been extinct for a very long time. All of this will take place long before the whole universe spits out its last iota of energy and goes dark forever and ever. Or maybe not. Either way, I won't be around to experience it. So I guess my existence and my actions will cease to have any meaning and have been utterly futile. But until then, there are cheeseburgers to eat, video games to play, and porn sites to whack off to.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
