Is it possible that this entire human world is completely upside down in its beliefs, and in fact life is a bad thing; death is a good thing; and suicide is the act of an enlightened soul that has come to this awakening?
What do humans live for? Ostensibly to contribute to life. To make life better for themselves, their families and other humans. Longer, happier lives for everyone.
The same thing can be said about an acid trip. You want it to be a happy one. You want it to last as long as possible. You want to share it with your friends. But in the end it’s just a fraud. It only feeds itself.
So I put it to you, can anyone convince me that life should exist? Is our planet really better because it has 10.5 billion humans crawling on its surface? Or would time & space continue just as well if Earth were a lifeless, quiet, peaceful rock like all the others?
And if that’s the case, then those of us who would contribute to this noble goal (the extinction of all life beginning with ourselves) would be, at least in my book, the most enlightened souls this world has known.
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The Earth doesn’t care if we’re here or not. It came into existence with no beings crawling on it for billions of years. Man’s existence on Earth is but a blink…snap…hardly even noticeable. At some point humans will also be gone from this place. It’s inevitable. An asteroid will hit or the earth’s rotation will shift and all life will extinguish. Time is a man made thing and so is space. They’re just human ideas to try to figure out our relationship to the universe. Whatever you do, commit suicide, live, help the poor, get rich, get laid..is just …. well … entertainment for the period you’re here. In an infinite universe would it matter so much if I jumped off a bridge? Entertainment.
So, we might as well try to enjoy it while we’re here right? I mean we would want to enjoy our acid trip.
What the world would be like without humans is irrelevant because that is not what is. If “if” were a fifth we’d all be drunk.
Evolution brought us to where we are today, are we de-evolving? Shit, I don’t know, sometimes it sure seems like it. In any case, humans are a product of a remarkable process that goes against the very essence of nature and natural law, the downward flow of energy, the force of entropy. Rivers do not exhaust energy by flowing upward, but evolution does, something remarkable happened to create life here.
Fact of the matter is, how can we possibly argue that what is should not be? If it shouldn’t have been then why is it? Why did evolution defy natural law to bring life? But, humans are not the only life forms, dehumanization is essentially human. Removal of humans still leaves life, life is all around us.
Back to the de-evolving thing, if we consider the history of humans we see a pattern emerge. Humans have notoriously been cruel to one another. Since the beginning of time there has been war, genocide, murder, and hatred. In fact, one could potentially argue that the world has ,in fact, become more humane, slavery has been abolished, people are held accountable for crimes against humanity, and there are humanitarian and even animal rights organizations, not to mention anti-bullying campaigns and the like. There is no doubt that people are still cruel, but people by the masses have actually stood up for what is right.
I suppose it is all in one’s perspective.