MurphOnMillerAve wrote:Rufus T. Firefly wrote:MurphOnMillerAve wrote:If I may suggest, that sounds like stuff one could hear from somebody who has found little or no meaning and is still searching - not necessarily a bad thing, though woebegone, a tad.
Not at all - "...and
the only species trying to figure it all out."
Are you sure? The universe is a rather large place. I might be inclined to hedge my bets just a wee bit........
And how'd that work out for the dinosaurs, entire lives devoted to eating, reproducing, and defecating, alive for hundreds of millions of years longer than we humans have been, were they trying to figure it all out? Are whales figurin' ? Dolphins? Do their larger brains equal something higher in intellect? In quality of life?
I don't know about whales and dolphins? I'm not in a position to judge their quality of life. Maybe they will judge us? I'm pretty sure that I've seen ample evidence that they are smarter than more than a few humans that I've met. Then again, I've met some folks that have trouble outwitting a turnip.
And, I have no idea about the rest of universe either - I'm not going to state that I know that humanity is all that is, has been, will ever be...over billions of years.
I'm willing to keep an open mind.