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Originally posted by Halx
I look at all the animals, insects, plants and fungi all around me and I realize how silly the thought of a higher being is. These are mindless organisms performing their tasks to ensure ONE THING.. the survival of their species. They don't have religion. They don't show faith to anything. All they live for is the continuation of their kind.
And here we are... claiming that humility is a virtue while we also believe we are any different than these species. We have heaven to look for because we live our lives for God, but everything else around us pays it no attention.. they continue to be animals and plants.
Faith, for all of it's demands of purity, is full of contradiction.
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Whether or not there really is anything more, the bottom line is that no one really knows. I don't think that it will make a difference in the end. If we die and that's it, well, that's it. The luxury we have as humans is the ability to think about it. If I were a gazelle in the plains of Africa, I wouldn't be thinking about the possiblity of a greater being. I'd be watching out for lions and trying to eat enough grass to last me another day.
I don't believe in one thing but I do hope for more. If I am wrong and there is a God, it will not matter if I believed or not. It did not change my existence. Just like the animals. They don't have to believe in order to exist. Just like us. We have the ability to think or not to think. It's just a choice we make. In the end, we will just have to face what really is whether it is something or nothing.