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Originally Posted by Zee
True, but people are optimistic creatures and we like to think that by virtue of our sentient ability to be top of the food chain, that marks us out for greater things. It's only natural. It's comforting when a loved one has died and it's something to cling onto when your own life is coming to an end because on some level, most people are afraid of dying because then they'll miss out on life...
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It's not really optimism that drives this emotion, it's fear, as your last few words prove.
Life doesn't owe us anything, and a twist of evolution doesn't mark us out as special in my view. We evolved a set of skills due to the environment we were living in and nature took care of the rest. It's an insurmountably nonsensical leap from that to theories (I use that word extremely lightly) of floating consciousness and the divine communicating with the most ignorant.
If a belief in god/reincarnation gets people through their days, then knock themselves out. Just don't make scientific claims about it.
26-07-2013, 09:24 AM
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