Why

[nailit]

Just why do humans think that we are any different from any other life form on this planet?
No other animal makes up religions to explain our origin (or destination).
As much as I'd like to see myself as been different from a cow, elephant, flea, worm, spider, bacteria etc, I just cant.
All life is born, all life will die, and everything in between.
I (and you) are just bipedal, carbon based lifeforms. Why the need for humans to add to the mix with a million and one different religions? And everyone claiming to be the truth??

Maybe I'm thinking too much again....
Just don't get why we have evolved to be so arrogant as to believe that we have a 'special' purpose in the grand scheme of things.

[Old_Geezer]

There are both similarities and differences.
Hardly surprising the species that evolves intelligence and manipulation skills beyond the rest of them feels superior and special. That it assumes there is a scheme of things that it plays the key role in.

[douglas9401]

Show me a wildebeest playing Countdown, then we'll chat. :-)

[-Talbot-]

I don't believe we have a special purpose but I am very different from an earthworm.

[nailit]

O-G I was a bit harsh with you on another post, I apologise. Thanks for ur contribution here.

[Tilly2]

Isn't it all to do with natural selection and free will? It's nearly time for tea so don't have time to debate.

[Mamyalynne]

We don't know what they get up to and organise though, do we?

[Hopkirk]

You are so right, Nailit.

We may be the most intelligent species, and yet we refuse to accept that death is the end.

All over the world different races have made up fairy stories that there is a higher being, and we live on after death.

Poppycock, and we are perhaps not so intelligent after all.

[Old_Geezer]

No problem. I figured out as much. And my memory's so bad I forget replies after a day anyway.

[Hymie]

The human species appears the only one gullible enough to believe such tosh.

[nailit]

//The human species appears the only one gullible enough to believe such tosh//
Agreed. But why?

[237SJ]

Yes, you are thinking too much again

[nailit]

Guess so 237,
Perhaps I should have been a philosopher. Became a painter and decorator instead. Ah well...

[237SJ]

Overthinking won't do you any good. I don't think it will do any of us any good, to be honest

[nailit]

237,
so funny that you say that.
Attended a group meeting today at my mental health clinic for a course that I agreed to. In the 'fag' break we all said exactly the same thing. We overthink stuff...

[237SJ]

I think that people who live in the Western world have too much time on their hands. People in third world countries are too busy trying to make a good life for their families.

[andy-hughes]

If as a species, we reach the ability to think outside ourselves - and we have - it is a logical step to wonder where we come from and similar massive questions - and we do.

Basically, we ponder because we can.

[andres]

There is a well known saying--- 'Too much knowledge is a dangerous thing'.

[nailit]

//Too much knowledge is a dangerous thing//
And?

[andy-hughes]

Hopkirk - // We may be the most intelligent species, and yet we refuse to accept that death is the end.

All over the world different races have made up fairy stories that there is a higher being, and we live on after death. //

That's just some members of the human race making themselves feel better - that's human nature.

If you need the comfort of a faith / a god / an afterlife, and so on, you have one, if you don't, you don't.

[-Talbot-]

Perhaps I should have been a philosopher. Became a painter and decorator instead. Ah well...



I think you made the right choice, nailit.