Leaving aside that life is some kind of joke produced by Lords of Cosmic jest to entertain God, or the creation of the devil and that nothingness is better - should we be trying to form sensible purpose not based on prayer wheels etc. Never seen a sensible answer Simon.
On 11 Sep, 23:12, Simon Ewins <[email protected]> wrote: > "So what" is the best reply I could possibly think of. > > So, indeed, what? > > Ta, much. > > 2009/9/11 archytas <[email protected]>: > > > > > > > More or less SJ - but so what? I mean this respectfully, in the sense > > that so what from here seems to be to be what we are short of. > > > On 11 Sep, 22:13, sjewins <[email protected]> wrote: > >> There are an amazing series of flaws that constitute the universe, > >> from its appalling celestial waste to its meagre and slipshod powers > >> of sustaining life. The uselessness of satellites, their sole function > >> being to whirl incessantly around their parent bodies in aimless > >> revolutions, does not speak of intelligent design. Neither does the > >> incalculable stellar wastage caused by undirected forces -- damaged > >> moons, smashed planets, burst stars due to overly-rapid rotation -- > >> point to the possibility that there is a "Celestial Engineer" in > >> charge. > > >> Earth's cosmic clock is ticking as our sun radiates away its energy > >> into desert space (thereby losing its weight also), squandering > >> 360,000 million tons of energy every day of which only 160 tons reach > >> our planet, or less than one two-thousand-millionth part of the total > >> radiation. The energy not wasted is greatly misdirected, with not > >> enough to sustain life in our polar regions, and too much in the > >> burning deserts of Mongolia and Africa. As the sun loses its weight at > >> the rate of 4 million tons a second, so it correspondingly loses its > >> gravitational hold on the earth. Slowly but steadily, our planet is > >> drifting away from the sun and there is no escaping the inevitability > >> of earth's destiny -- to become just another of the billions of > >> lifeless globes carrying nothing but the frozen remains of what were > >> once living beings. > > >> But oh how beautiful the universe is! Hubble's photographs show > >> incredible random abstract beauty. In a universe that contains so much > >> that is the same as that from which we arose it is absurd to think > >> that we are alone. I think the universe is teeming with life. > >> Intelligent like us, less so, and moreso. There are civilizations that > >> have been around for 100 times as long as we and have undoubtedly > >> discovered the secrets that we dream of. Have grown away from the > >> monsters in childhood closets that are the gods. There are also surely > >> those younger than us who are still inventing their gods to explain > >> what they experience around them. > > >> We have one thing in common. We are all stardust. From stars we came > >> and to stars we will return. Our molecules drifting towards and beyond > >> this beautiful universe that we call home. Stare at the stars and see > >> your past and your future. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
