deep thinking about our existance

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." -- Einstein

My exact thoughts about a creator and our ridiculous "reasonable" discussions about it.

This^^^^
"Someone" and "no one" anthropomorphize the question, but this is human-centric. The source of creation is not human or a divine spirit with human attributes. It just "is" and we scientists love picking at the scabs to see if we can learn about the birth.

I wonder if any other life forms in the universe are asking the same?

There might even be other life forms on Earth asking the same question.

Elephants have been observed mourning their dead and even holding 'wakes'. The distance between recognizing the transition from life to death and asking yourself what lies beyond/before is small.

Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) buried their dead, and there's some evidence that this was done ritually/with symbolism, e.g. burial with flowers.

Homo heidelbergensis, which is though to be the common ancestor of us and neanderthals, possibly practiced some form of ritual disposal of their dead, although archaeological evidence is limited.

Granted they're still humans, but it shows that this kind of consciousness evolved a lot earlier than most people think. And even chimpanzee mothers grieve for dead infants and sometimes they sit in a kind of vigil like away beside the dead infant before finally leaving it. There are videos of this on you tube.

eta: animal lovers, if you do watch those videos on you tube, have a box of tissues handy....

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." -- Einstein

My exact thoughts about a creator and our ridiculous "reasonable" discussions about it.

something something "optical delusion" of separateness...our religion must evolve to include compassion for all beings
sorry, Albert, for badly misquoting (no open search at work)

I like to believe that we're all someone's Sims game.

Metaphysical arguments are designed merely to exercise the mind. For every metaphysical statement that can be made to support the existence of a higher power charged with creation, an equally convincing quasi-metaphysical statement can be made to refute it. In the end, both positions must acknowledge that the foundation of the argument is unknowable. We could discuss the transcental ideality of space and time a la Kant; we could discuss the rejection of metaphysics by atheists (while simultaneously asking "if there is no metaphysical, what is the mind, or more accurately, what is a thought?") or we could confuse ourselves while trying to decipher Wittgenstein.

In the end, the only true answer is "I don't know."

Marry me?

I'm a big fan of randomness of the universe, and even the state of the universe before the big bang. Seen lots of documentaries on it, though I'm not a physicist or scientist of any kind.

I do like statistics, and think that an astronomically large number of improbable events happened in exactly the right order to bring me here today. Chances of it happening make winning the lottery seem easy. But when you look at the vastness of the universe, statistically speaking, something similar probably has happened on many many other planets.

So I think that the laws of physics and matter and chemistry guided everything we know of to come into existence. Not on purpose. It just happened. And while I'm here, I'm gonna enjoy it.

In my opinion with what we know of how life starts it's almost impossible to believe that something didn't create us.

I like to believe that we're all someone's Sims game.

Yeah I'm in for this

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