If all we are is chemical reactions, to what end do we proceed?
2006-08-27 20:02:45 · 16 answers · asked by BoredomStrikes 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
vampire, obviously you don't understandt he frog example... sigh....
If we are just chemical reactions, no real reason for us to exist really.
2006-08-27 20:14:39 · answer #1 · answered by WhiteHat 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
What happens if your house is burned down? Does it function as a house anymore? No!
What happens when your brain's cells become mush. Do you function anymore? No.
HERE IS MY PROOF!
Ingrediants:
Spoon.
Human.
Gourge the brain from a human with a spoon and see how well they function as an individual.. They will not. The brain is *required* to process information. With no brain there is no input, no reaction, no output.
So what end do we proceed. We no longer function. We no longer experience. That is it.
For some reason people believe they can exist with out a brain, which is partially true because evidently they are not using theirs.
2006-08-28 03:15:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Oh boy, why must you assume that there has to be a purpose?
Why can't you just accept life as it is?
You either live your life happily, or don't
It's your choice...
Anyway, the idiot's answer somewhere above mine, who said something about mulch, was just plain wrong...
He HAS, however, demonstrated a monstrous lack of understanding...
The world TODAY doesn't have the necessary global climate conditions...
When abiogenesis was occurring, the earth was SO much hotter, and SO much more chaotic, and all the pieces were in water, a good solvent.
2006-08-28 03:15:16 · answer #3 · answered by RED MIST! 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
We proceed from birth to death. Along the way, because we are creating order from systems that are seeking chaos, we take in food to provide energy to keep ordered. At some point, the entropic process wins out and we die. Entropy keeps going until we are scattered back into molecules and atoms.
Nothing more, nothing less.
2006-08-28 03:11:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm agnostic, not aetheist. We are supposedly here to purify. The body is chemical reaction and like everything organic, it will recylce. The soul, or spirit, the thinking, feeling part of you, the unseen, goes on, body after body, life after life until it becomes what it was in the beginning. Pure. It's really too much to answer in this time and place, but study "Kabbalah" and you'll soon find answers, without getting involved in religion. (Even tho it was entrusted to the Jews) Kabbalah says that humans are "pure light trapped in contaminated matter". Hope this helps a little, even if it IS just the tip of the iceberg.
2006-08-28 03:17:35 · answer #5 · answered by Justy 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
In the end you are asking the same question no one has yet answered. You are asking for the meaning of life. I do not know this answer. If I understand enough to learn a fraction of this truth I will have been successful. I devote myself to learning the truth. The truth is nobody knows.
Hails,
Silence
2006-08-28 03:24:44 · answer #6 · answered by Silent One 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We proceed in the direction that brings us the most happiness. That doesn't mean hedonism. It means in the context of human society, that which makes us happy. Most people, religious, athesitic or otherwise have a minimal understanding of what makes them happy. What really makes one happy is making a positive contribution. I think Jonas Salk died a happy man.
Atheists just don't need the whole heaven and hell, carrot/stick thing.
2006-08-28 03:14:41 · answer #7 · answered by JoeFunSmith 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
From a highly spiritual and fairly scientific non-Christian non-athiest...if you're going to go into chemical reactions, don't forget that energy never disappears, it only changes form.
2006-08-28 03:10:00 · answer #8 · answered by angk 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Silly carbon bag of mostly water, we proceed to learn. You can program water, check out the guy in Japan who did the experiments with photographing the water he subjected to different stimulus. (it has to be spring water to really be amazing.)
2006-08-28 03:09:53 · answer #9 · answered by Silvatungfox 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
dear captain, y not create ur own reason to exist?
All religions are old wives' fables, but an honest man has
nothing to fear, either in this world or the world to come.
Robert Burns, quoted by Robert Green Ingersoll in "Why I Am an Agnostic"
2006-08-28 03:25:13 · answer #10 · answered by meta-morph-in-oz 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
"to J.P using the theory of thermodynamics. Please explain the Big bang theory. Because the laws of thermodynamics and the Big Bang theory discredit eachother... Yet funnily thermodynamics hasn't ever been disproved (oh except for that big explosion 7 billion years ago)"
The laws that govern the universe don't apply before the existance of the universe.
2006-08-28 03:19:16 · answer #11 · answered by sandesmus 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋