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Most threads de-evolve into something other than there original intent.
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I know. I was trying to prevent that here!
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I was pointing out the Rationalist point of view ultimately arrives at the dead end of what happens after one's death.
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It's not a dead end. "Nothing happens" is clearly what could happen. You die. The end. Just like a bug. I know that bothers people, but so what?
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Science for all of it's mastery of classical physics, for it's conquering of Nature, for it's advancements, well ultimately my friend, it leads to nothing.
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It never claimed to lead anywhere. Which is fine by me.
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Why pursue knowledge, why seek to understand if there is no real purpose to it all?
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That IS the purpose.
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Eventually our civilizations will turn to dust, our World will be swallowed up by gamma rays emitted by a dying Sun. All life on this orbiting rock will cease to exist.
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Pretty much.
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Ultimately humanity may have to resign itself to the fact that eventually our "footprint" in the Universe will be lost.
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Whether humanity resigns itself to that fact or not, it's still the case. Accept it, don't accept it. Either way it's going to happen.
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They don't call it Faith for nothing.
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I take no issue with faith. I only question it when it's spun as fact instead of what it is.