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Originally Posted by kn
I just finished watching season one of Cosmos and was blown away. I don't have the words to describe how my mind is racing as a result.
One thing that continues to trouble me...
We exist by random chance, an accident. A single human life is a fraction of a millisecond on cosmological scale. The universe is oblivious to our existence making humans insignificant by any standard.
Doesn't this necessarily lead to nihilism? I've been down this road before when I first started university some many years ago and found it terribly depressing. We can delude ourselves into thinking there is a purpose or meaning to anything but is there really, knowing what we know about the universe? We can focus on family and children or pursue our passions, but in the end, so what? The only way to remain sane, I think, is to not ponder these types of issues.
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As an athiest I never bought the "nihilism" movement, just because humans have evolved with big brains shouldn't excuse us from the real meaning of our existance which is to survive and multiply but since we do have evolved brain power we may as well add some fun stuff to our short lifes in this universe.
And not to make you feel any smaller but
the history of modern human life is a fraction of a millisecond on cosmological scale.