Is life freaky or what

[Scott C.]

So regardless of your view of the origin of life, the purpose of life, an afterlife, god or no god...and I have views on these subjects...do you find life to be freaky? I mean think about it. I'm sitting here as an intelligence aware of my existence, looking outside of my body, aware of my surroundings. If I think about it too much and too deeply, I get totally freaked out about it. Why does something exist? Why not nothing? But something surely exists and I'm part of it. Freaky. Thoughts?

 

[outhouse]

Nope not freaky at all.

Its a gift not to ponder but enjoy while you can because life is short

 

[Scott C.]

I can't help but ponder it (which does not preclude enjoying it).

 

[Penumbra]

Yes, life is pretty freaky complex. There's so much going on even in a single cell.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

So regardless of your view of the origin of life, the purpose of life, an afterlife, god or no god...and I have views on these subjects...do you find life to be freaky? I mean think about it. I'm sitting here as an intelligence aware of my existence, looking outside of my body, aware of my surroundings. If I think about it too much and too deeply, I get totally freaked out about it. Why does something exist? Why not nothing? But something surely exists and I'm part of it. Freaky. Thoughts?

Yes, very freaky. We're amazingly special.

Reminds me of a quote from Douglas Adams:

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

 

[Awoon]

Life is boring, let's create some Gods and endless talk forums.

OH wait. The Gods already did.

 

[Skwim]

What Penumbra and 9-10ths Penguin said.

 

[CaptainXeroid]

If you want it to get even freakier, study astronomy. :angel2: When you realize the number of stars, just in our own Milky Way Galaxy, around 200 billion stars, and so far we know of ONE that has intelligent life. The Kepler mission is studying more than 145,000 of them trying to determine which of them may contain planets that might be capable of supporting life. So far, there are quite a few candidates.

OK....now click here for the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. Every dot, speck, and swirl in this picture is a galaxy containing thousands or millions, or even billions of more stars. Yet, we wound up on this pale blue dot posting on this forum.

Now that's freaky! :highfive:

 

[Me Myself]

life´s freaky.

We are freaky.

Ya earned yourself som fraky frubals

 

[Photonic]

What Penumbra and 9-10ths Penguin said.

What Douglas Adams said.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

That's the real, underlying, fundamental question: Why is there something instead of nothing? I tend to think there probably is no "why" in any way that humans could ever understand. Makes the freakiness a little more bearable when you realize and accept that humans know practically nothing. Life is really pretty simple. It's sad that so many people think this brief, basic existence is such a difficult struggle.

 

[outhouse]

Life is really pretty simple.

And there it is. Plain and simple. Dont overthink simplicity

 

[Twilight Hue]

Freaky. Frightening as well but at the same time a wonderful experience.

 

[Scott C.]

It makes you wonder if there ever was a time when there was "nothing". I assume not, since something cannot come from nothing. So why has there always been something rather than nothing? This question applies if you believe there has always been God (i.e., something) or if you believe there never was God. We are all still left with the mystery of existence.

 

[javajo]

I think Douglas Adams was on to something. Being on a gas filled planet circling a nuclear fireball in this great universe yet having everything balanced just so, so that we have exactly the right amount of heat, cold, gravity, water, oxygen and other gases, and all the other complexities that if one little thing was a tiny bit off, we could not exist is pretty freaky. I believe we and all creation were fearfully and wonderfully made by God who has "the whole world in his hand".

 

[Kilgore Trout]

I think Douglas Adams was on to something. Being on a gas filled planet circling a nuclear fireball in this great universe yet having everything balanced just so, so that we have exactly the right amount of heat, cold, gravity, water, oxygen and other gases, and all the other complexities that if one little thing was a tiny bit off, we could not exist is pretty freaky. I believe we and all creation were fearfully and wonderfully made by God who has "the whole world in his hand".

LOL - Douglas Adams was onto a lot of things. He also said a little something about a puddle thinking to itself that the hole it was in must have been made for it because it fits so well. Might want to check that one out while you're at it.

 

[javajo]

LOL - Douglas Adams was onto a lot of things. He also said a little something about a puddle thinking to itself that the hole it was in must have been made for it because it fits so well. Might want to check that one out while you're at it.

Puddles can't think, silly.

12Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: 13Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
14In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
15Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
16For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
17And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col. 1

 

[meogi]

I mean think about it. I'm sitting here as an intelligence aware of my existence, looking outside of my body, aware of my surroundings. If I think about it too much and too deeply, I get totally freaked out about it.

Don't forget about the fact that we're zooming through space-time (earth is spinning at ~700mph on average and moving ~18mps around the sun). And that what we perceive as us is mostly (99.9%) empty space. So it's really empty space that is flying around very quickly in empty space.
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Freakylicious.

 

[Noaidi]

Carl Sagan is always on the money for me.
Fileale Blue Dot.png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Check out the dot to the right of the middle.



"Look again at that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every supreme leader,every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."


Truly amazing.

 

[Viker]

So regardless of your view of the origin of life, the purpose of life, an afterlife, god or no god...and I have views on these subjects...do you find life to be freaky? I mean think about it. I'm sitting here as an intelligence aware of my existence, looking outside of my body, aware of my surroundings. If I think about it too much and too deeply, I get totally freaked out about it. Why does something exist? Why not nothing? But something surely exists and I'm part of it. Freaky. Thoughts?

I do something like that. Only I can't believe it's actually happening. I can see why solipsism is tempting to so many. This just can't be real, can it?