Life in the universe Agreed. There must be other life in the universe, and I am sure we can learn a lot from some. Too many fear the unknown.
I am in agreement with you on this one. There are so many other planets out there so why would our planet be the only one with life. People fear what they don't know.
Every Ideology will give you different answer of same question and human nature, your mind will accept 1 answer as truth. But Real truth, we can take experience of that, can't explain it. words can be manipulated like stocks. there are infinite questions in life, where all questions of mind ends with experience of truth. Yoga calls that 'Nirvikalpa Samadhi' in which human breath stops automatically, his body get stretched like dead body. this is like, 1 human heard, Universe created from blackhole, he tried to find answer, so he entered inside blackhole and he didn't remained human anymore. In 17 year life of My Yoga worships and meditation , I have taken experience of 'Nirvikalpa Samadhi' 6 times. when i came back from that stage, 1st. question in my mind was, Why i came back ? but, that experience pushed me to do efforts again and again. because, whatever i experienced, I liked to do efforts to go back in that stage than Finding answer, why i came back ? ideologies can answer my questions easily, but, ideologies can't take me near truth. end of all ideologies means truth. Feelings are stronger than mind, when Mind get zero by meditation, Real strength of feelings automatically comes out, same like, when clouds of mind disappears, sunlight, automatically appears on earth.
1 more point. Epilepsy attacks and Nirvikalpa smadhi, in both we see same signs. but it doesn't mean both are same. For disease of Epilepsy don't need meditation. For Nirvikalpa Samadhi, dedication, meditation etc. all that need. Epilepsy patient finds cure, Who experienced Nirvikalpa samadhi, He want to go back in that stage. maybe signs are same, but reactions are opposite.
Many years ago I did the Landmark Forum personal development program. One of the main things I took from it that I believe is the phrase: "Life is empty and meaningless". On the surface the phrase sounds really negative but actually it's about seeing life as having no preordained meaning and that whatever you choose to fill your life with is what life's about, and whatever meaning you personally want to apply to life is the meaning of life. This principle works for me.
You can believe in anything you want, but the truth is that we are here to reproduce and advance our specie just like other animals do,survival and passing their genes to the next generations. But it does bring some sort of comfort if you convince yourself otherwise like the religions do.
Jesse Ventura made a guest appearance on The X Files once, and he got to quote something that is very true: "We don't even understand the correlation between what we see and how our brain processes that information into images we can comprehend, yet we have the gall to assume that we know what we see". So you have a very valid point.
Not sure I could call it "reason" as much as "accident". Just think of it this way: According to Darwin, we are a result of evolution. Does evolution have to necessarily possess a reason? No, it's just... an accident. Until I'm proven wrong by founded evidence, I will always consider our existence an "accident".
I don't really know as to why am I here. But I know that there is always reasons for our existence. We may not know it yet but sooner or later there will be a revelation for it.
"I think, therefore I am" (or, "cogito, ergo sum") was Rene Descartes, not Socrates. I am of the opinion that the human experience is just a step in the evolution of the soul. There are certain lessons to be learned in this finite physical body. After we learn the necessary lessons, we ascend to a higher level of existence.