Systematically dismantling religion

[Ksa]

However, do we have any other choice?

To not procreate?

It is only a matter of time before technological advancements give birth to immortal life forms, that can accumulate knowledge and skills forever and ever.

Technologically advanced civilizations don't last long because of Fermi paradox.

The fact that they don't come to us tells us nothing about their survival abilities. Your issue is that you give a human personality to what's out there. You make a Christopher Columbus out of an advanced alien. You don't know what's out there. One thing that I can guarantee you is that they don't have CNN/BBC news channels and they don't visit other planets like humans visit different countries for recreation, in order to create a big show on TV about their interaction with new life forms and brag about it for dopamine reward. The reward they get transcends the physical and a human mind can never grasp it. You can't even grasp what Heroin does...get serious.

The need that humans have to move their physical body from place to place for recreation is a result of a lack of understanding of their reward system. To be honest with you, even traveling to another country to visit sites and museums is highly dangerous. While you fly, your life hangs into a jack screw, into a hydraulic line that served 2,000+ flights...into a half broken fuel canister. If there are aliens out there, they would label these people as clinically insane.

It's always a matter of motivation. What do they get by traveling so far? Aliens are not insane like Christopher Columbus...they probably already have everything they need where they are. Think about it, our sun can provide energy for billions of years, there is no need to go elsewhere. You can just build around it.