Ok to all you who responded, thank you.
I think for myself and a lot of you as well, we tend to get lost in the why, and forget about the now. I find myself thinking too much about the things that have no answers, and too little on the tangent, personal things that i might be able to grasp, and maybe change to my benefit. But that's part of behing human right, to dream the things unthinkable. I guess sometimes it just gets out of perspective.
I didn't mean to get too much into religion here. I mean, when you look into the past, it was used as an answer to most of our questions (ie a god of thunder, a god of the rain), as I'm sure most of you know. However, as we got smarter, we realized the natural causes of these phenomenon, so the use of gods subsided, and was replaced by scientific fact. However there is still a question or two that we cannot answer, ie, why we are here and what happens when we die, hence our need of god and the answers that it brings.
I think the idea of god is not a bad thing...it does serve some purpose. It gives peole meaning and hope. However, i think there is a fundamental flaw that has contributed to a large part of the distruction of the earth, that being the world view that god created us under his image, and everything else is there for our taking. We are above everything else, and if god created nature, then we can do whatever we want to it. I think it's kind of a shame too, cause there was another world view at the time (the natives) that believed the world was a web, interconnected, and that everything you do has a consequence. Think of how the world would be now if that was the dominant underlying thinking of us. Alas, the greedier side wins <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">
however, to the poster that gave all the scientific information about other dimensions, and us being insignificant. I posted this before, but i don't think it got that much attention. As i said earlier, i don't have much belief in a human god, but i do think there is something going on that was can't understand, and i believe this through science. Let me explain.
When they were experimenting on quantum computing, they realized that the world was one big mind, in a sense. Quantum computing deals with the positions of the the electrons, and where they will be at any given time. We have been able to harness that power, and create mini computers out of manipulating the spin of electrons represent the ones or zeros. However, we aren't actually creating anything new, we are just tapping into the computing power that is already there in the universe. So what is the universe computing, you might ask? it's computing where the electrons are gonna be at any specific time to make this reality. So what i get from this is that the universe is calculating thise reality out of many different possibilities...and out of all these calculations, it calculates life...and sentient life at that...that's able to ponder it's own existence...and even come to understand the mechanisms that go on to create this universe! Chance? Think about it.
I kinda got off topic here, but i mainly wanted to start this thread to ask why we feel so pressured into succeeding, being something, and an individual out of 6 billion people when you think that none of it really matters. I think the important thing is to just take a breath, feel the sun on your face and just enjoy life. More and more i think there is beauty in simplicity, in a growing world of complexity.
ok...too much hahha
Kiel