Why is it that many people feel that human beings need some central place in the function of the universe? Does this not strike them as hubris? Is it really so hard to swallow the fact that we are an insignificant ape on some blue back water planet out in the middle of nowhere in the universe?
2007-05-15 09:47:34 · 16 answers · asked by Squishy Mckay 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Somewhere along the way, these people were brainwashed into believing that there must be more. They think that they must have 'meaning.' They were taught to think that 'serving god' is a good 'meaning' for their life. It doesn't occur to them that if their god did exist, then it really doesn't need them to worship it, it could make a billion of them any time it felt like it, and program them any way it wanted to.
2007-05-15 09:54:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't mind being insignificant in the whole scheme of things. We are all just here for a minuscule fraction of time.
I know others that feel the human race is so incredibly special, but they are all rapped up in there own self importance. Get a grip!
2007-05-15 09:54:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
heavily, as a Buddhist and a Vedantist i'm super with it, and that i frequently like the atheists i understand greater useful than the theists--in spite of the undeniable fact that I do have very a brilliant number of sympathy for the gods, and goddesses, of Olympus. i think of i've got basically ever met one bona fide worshipper of Apollo, and that i loved him very plenty. And in deadly earnest, i've got faith, while not having any right evidence of it, that faith (believing in god/s) is a organic function of the human recommendations that has something to do with a similar spontaneous mutation that gave us speech, language and reason some thirty-5 thousand years in the past. a minimum of that is glaring that language and faith seem at with regard to a similar time in human evolution. humorous, it merely happened to me that, with all this musing aloud, i've got not stated that i'm an atheist too--evidence that we atheists are what the Italians call a "herd of cats."
2016-11-23 15:16:31 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I completely agree with you, but some people are just to proud to accept their overall insignificance, and inevitable mortality.
However, a drop in the ocean of the world, a waterfall to those who know you. Or something to that effect.
2007-05-15 09:51:44 · answer #4 · answered by Ginger Ninja 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a central part of a human in the middle of a YA avatar.
2007-05-15 09:52:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
People need a reason to live. Curiosity is an essential to the advancement of society. Perhaps it is an inborn mechanism designed to assist us in the survival of the fittest.
2007-05-15 09:56:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Certain people always think that they are the center of the universe. It's an ego thing.
2007-05-15 12:18:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Right on
We're spinning on a rock in the middle of nowhere - that's all
2007-05-15 10:00:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simple answer, Yes, for most people it is hard to accept. The real problem is saying, if you can, that "I am completely in charge of my life." Not many can.
2007-05-15 09:52:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is hard to swallow. As a creation of God I cannot so easily discount the value of the human soul.
~Neeva
2007-05-15 09:51:17 · answer #10 · answered by Neeva C 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋