(May 9, 2014 at 8:22 pm)Ryantology (╯°◊°)╯︵ ══╬ Wrote:Sorry but we wont live to see that, sending humanity to the stars right now would be like sending a 4 year old to walmart alone.(May 9, 2014 at 11:57 am)ChadWooters Wrote: I get it. You think Christianity isn't the answer. Then step up and answer the questions about your beliefs?
1) What is your highest hope?
To see the human race grow up and leave our adolescence behind, which is to say: to grab the stars instead of merely reach for them. To see the value of a human life not be measured by what kind of labor you are willing to sell, or how much money you have, or whether you worship the regionally-acceptable sky daddy, but by the compassion and care you show for your fellow man. To see an end to religion and money and scarcity.
2) Do you live your life as if determinism was true?
I live my life as if it doesn't matter, because it doesn't. Either I actually have the ability to subtly alter the progression of events, or I don't, but my ability to trace events backwards (and to use that model as a predictive tool) is so limited that apparently random events are, in a practical sense, actually random for me.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
