(March 6, 2015 at 11:50 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: People can say 'well it matters to the families' but we as a species will only be here for a blink of an eye. Whatever meaning someone imposes on their life is pretty much a delusion that they are using to keep themselves from being a nihilist.
If nothing matters, you wouldn't be trying determine if nothing matters.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
