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Xnijmai
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I don't really believe that theory that says that most of the advances that we as a species were blessed with was only done with the help of some extraterrestrial help. While I may as clueless as the majority of the people walking around the earth at this moment about the reason why or how we became the dominant creatures on this planet, I would like to think that all of that was accomplished by own merit. We were lucky enough to be able to thrive in a time where the threat of dinosaurs and other large, terrifying monsters were gone, and through a long period of learning and adapting, we slowly grew stronger, smarter, and wiser, again, due to the help of some of the luckiest timing in the history of this planet. Our species as we knew it was forged from chaos, unbelievable odds, and random chance, and it's just utterly amazing that we got to where we are now. I think it cheapens all the amazing things we have done as living beings to say that some other species just gave us everything we know. We are just the craziest things to ever exist and we should give credit to ourselves when it is due, because, at the end of the day, think of how utterly awe inspiring it is that we can do what we do. Saying that Aliens did it all is just really lame and kind of a cop out.
Can you recover from a crisis of faith and think you can continue living up the ideals of your faith, even though you know that object of worship is not real? Reworded in another way... Say that you were religious person, devoted to your calling and faithful to the bone. One day, through some experience, you find that the odds of your religion being true was pretty much non existent. Does it shatter everything that makes you you if you find that there is no Omniscient figure guiding you through your life? Does it make the things that made you what is considered by majority of people in the world as good person pointless? Does this break who you are at your core knowing that what you believe could quite possibly utterly and completely wrong? What would you do if you experience such a thing and how would you think you would carry on your life afterwards?
Can you recover from a crisis of faith and think you can continue living up the ideals of your faith, even though you know that object of worship is not real? Reworded in another way... Say that you were religious person, devoted to your calling and faithful to the bone. One day, through some experience, you find that the odds of your religion being true was pretty much non existent. Does it shatter everything that makes you you if you find that there is no Omniscient figure guiding you through your life? Does it make the things that made you what is considered by majority of people in the world as good person pointless? Does this break who you are at your core knowing that what you believe could quite possibly utterly and completely wrong? What would you do if you experience such a thing and how would you think you would carry on your life afterwards?