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Life keeps getting better |
We started off with a tiny universe that was all energy and over time matter evolved. At first it was just hydrogen and helium. Gravity pulled the natter together the stars formed. Heavier elements were created and then through supernovas the universe made the elements we are made out of. We are the stardust that Carl Sagan spoke of.
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We have evolved the ability
to turn men into women.
(Jenna Talackova)
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The Earth formed some 4.5 billion years ago and then life formed and evolved. Life was tough back then even for microbes but life persisted and eventually here we are. Although some people complain, life is better now than it ever was. In just the last 50 years we now have the Internet where any person can share any idea about anything with the rest of the people on the planet at almost no cost. This Church of Reality is an example of that. What a wondrous time to be alive.
200 years ago people only lived half as long as we do now. Although our biology hasn't changed humans can now fly. We have traveled to the moon. We have sent probes out into interstellar space. We can talk to and see anyone in the world as if they are sitting right in front of us. We can cut the heart out of one person and put it in another. With computer chips we can make rocks think. We have launched telescopes into space that allow us to see back almost to the beginning of time. And this all is just the beginning.
Although many look at the future with trepidation, I think that we should look at the future as opportunity. What an incredible place this universe is. The more we learn about reality the more interesting it becomes. Just a few thousand years ago the world was flat and there was the Earth and the sky above. Then we figured we were on a sphere, that the Sun was a start and we were orbiting it. That we were part of a solar system. Then we discovered we were part of a galaxy, and that there are some trillion other galaxies out there.
There is no limit to what we might learn, what we might evolve into, the knowledge yet to be discovered. All we have to do is stay in the game to experience the wonders of tomorrow.
We now know that our universe had a beginning, and we have an idea what happened and how it evolved into us. And we are now wondering what else might is out there to be discovered. Is our universe the sum total of reality? Or are we but one universe among an infinite number of other universes in some multiverse? And is there something beyond that?
All of this knowledge is out there waiting to be discovered. We are reality discovering itself. We are like a baby that has jst found its toes. What an amazing place this is. The more we know the more interesting it gets. With what we learned in the last 100 years, what will it be like 100 years from now? What will it be like 1000 years from now, or a billion years from now? We are just scratching the surface. So much to understand. So much to explore.
But in order to do that we have to continue to survive and to thrive. We need to keep growing the Tree of Knowledge. We need to continue to exist. In order to do that we have to live in Right Relationship with Reality. We have to understand our purpose in the universe and try to figure out what the universe wants to become through us.
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Why should Humanity Exist? 