In a universe without God or immortality, how is mankind ultimately different from a swarm of mosquitoes or a?

Question

a barnyard of pigs?

Answer 1

I am reminded of something a friend told me. When we see a beautiful thing, we are experiencing our own inherent beauty. What we see in the world, its significance, is something which we bring to it.

I know a woman who feels she has no creditable talent. She sees her own lack of crafting skills as reflecting this deficit, and discounts her perceiving eyes. She finds beauty in little things which slide by the most of us, the beauty in people that most ignore. She gives this gift freely to all around her, shares her beauty, this seeing of beauty.

There is no immortality and there is no God. We are left to find our way through a life that could be nothing more than a pig’s sty. It is people like this lady that act as a beacon to guide us. Without the love and beauty that shines from them, we would be lost.

Answer 2

There are more levels of no difference than there are levels of difference. Individuals may qualify the small numbers of differences as qualitatively more important, a completely subjective decision.

One presumption you are making is that somehow my life would be different, that my decisions would change if I knew one way or the other. Without a doubt, they would not. I exist, I take actions. I connect with other individuals. I feel emotions. I don't need God or immortality to do any of those things.

I would still want to live even if I determined that I wasn't important, because I ultimately am important to myself.

Answer 3

The either-or condition is of the MIND realm, not of God. God is an Absolute, and of a vibrational Reality well beyond the reaches of duality, which is of the MIND.

The nature of an entity depends upon the number of elements active within that entity. In a mosquito there are two elements active. In a plant,, there is but one element active. In a horse there are four, and ONLY in Man are all five elements active.

The elements are: Earth; Water; Fire; Air; Ether. Only in Man are all five active. The element of "Ether" gives Man conscience and discretion. Only Man therefore is fully accountable for his actions as far as his Karmic obligation is concerned.

As far as immorality goes, each is "free" to engage in immorality or not, and for so doing, one creates negative Karma that will, at some point, come back to bite one. But simply receiving the negative reaction in some future life is not the end of ones "lessons". At the end of ones present life one will go before a "judge" and one will spend some time in a "corrective environment" following ones evaluation of ones past life.

Peace

Answer 4

Humans are mainly different because we possess an advanced brain through evolution. The fact that we don't use them is another question altogether. Incidentally, the universe continues to expand without God or immortality. Trust me on this.

Answer 5

Mankind isn't finally diverse from a swarm of mosquitos. "My instinct tells me that, as a guy, i'm specific and Immortality is inbuilt in my soul" Your instinct and mine disagree. Mine is that as quickly as I die, i'm long gone, and not in any respect the likes of me would be seen lower back in this universe or the different.

Answer 6

We ARE a barnyard of pigs.

I'm reminded of George Orwell's novel, "Animal Farm," and the chant of the sheep, "four legs good, two legs baaaad."

Answer 7

Without God or immortality there will be no existence so this question looks hypothetical.

Answer 8

Most of us, have the ability to understand ToM (theory of mind) and this means that we can predict logically the next step based on information we have learned about our surroundings and people and past events.

Answer 9

Human beings are no more important than any other lifeform. I wouldn't, however, say there is no absolute God quite yet.

Answer 10

Your right, we would be nothing, even pigs have a purpose in life.