There, that got your attention.
It is often said, as an argument against the existence of any cosmic importance for mankind, that we are no more than a handful of microbes living in a tiny habitable region of a huge ball of rock we call Earth, in a vast solar system orbiting a Sun many times larger than the earth, just one of 100 billion such stars in a galaxy that is just one of 100 billion galaxies in an observable universe estimated to be somewhere between 100-150 billion light years in diameter.
Tiny pinpoints of matter in a vast gulf of empty space. How could we be of any signifigance in the cosmic scheme of things? Or so the oft-quoted argument goes.
But this way of measuring our signifigance is based on the idea that size is important, rather than, say, complexity.
Why should we consider ourselves cosmically insignifigant simply because we are small compared with the scale of the universe?
2006-09-29 10:22:59 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
We shouldn't. I believe that we should forget about how big the universe is and live our lives by what happens here, on earth. What we really need to think about is why each and every one of us is here and how we can all make a difference and make each other happy.
2006-09-29 10:27:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, the microscope bacteria that reside on the surface of your turds is insignificant to you, is it not? But it is a complex being, part of the overall recycling project that is life.
So, perhaps the problem is that we THINK we are more significant than we really are....
2006-09-29 17:28:48 · answer #2 · answered by YDoncha_Blowme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The earth is small, but not insignicant.
So we don't control the galaxy, no big deal.
2006-09-29 22:45:32 · answer #3 · answered by lilith 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are important to the microbes because we are there food.
2006-09-29 17:35:07 · answer #4 · answered by mr bump 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
all things play a major role in life!
2006-09-29 17:25:28 · answer #5 · answered by hop along casidy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apologies for SOME of the answers here -- But not all !
2006-09-29 17:30:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it looks like were in a b and q bucket of shite. it can end just as fast as it started .some one.
2006-09-29 17:34:38 · answer #7 · answered by clare p 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
U R in denial. Size matters!! Big time!
2006-09-29 17:26:29 · answer #8 · answered by messymessina 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
YES
no matter what we might say at times,
yes
2006-09-29 17:25:08 · answer #9 · answered by mannit m 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Boring.........zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
2006-09-29 17:32:33 · answer #10 · answered by mistickle17 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋