Environment & Energy
In reply to the discussion: Are you a Doomer™? [View all]RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)And what it looks like is that on the current trend mankind as we know it is doomed. If that makes one a doomer, so be it.
As we sit and contemplate the doom we must also contemplate that life is everlasting. It's easier to do if you can grok the idea that there is no such thing as time.
I think it was you, GG, who Op'ed that we are 14 billion years old? That our bodies are made up of atoms that are 14 billion years old. That is as good a truth as any to help realize that time as we know it, tic-toc, is nothing.
Whatever we are now is not what we were. And in due process will not be what we are now, but we will still be. We-have-been. We-will-be. But not what we are now.
Jump to religion: Religios is the ancient Greek word for source of man.
We seek our source. Only a fool does not. And knowing that we once were not what we are now, and we won't be what we are now but will still be, makes one wonder: what is IT that drew together these atoms into this shape at this time? What force, what source is it that assembled this 'structure"?