Life is not Pointless

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This video was inspired by a thread on the League of Reason forums: http://forums.leagueofreason.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=3023
Music:
First track: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0zti44LNPs
Second track: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHuTxNIpdeM

Transcript:


The other day, I came across a person on Youtube who told me that being an atheist "kills your imagination and hope". This video is for him and others who struggle to find wonder in the world without religion.

Have you ever truly appreciated the universe? I have many times, but my most profound experience occured several years ago. When I was 16 years old, my family and I stayed for three weeks in the outback of Australia. During our stay, we did a lot of driving, and this had us travelling through empty areas, miles away from any settlements. One of these journeys took us through a deserted plain during the night.
Having nothing else to do, I looked out the window for a very long time. Once my eyes were adjusted to the darkness I could see a great sea of stars, stretched across the night sky.There is nothing that compares to the feeling of wonder I felt that night. It brought tears to my eyes.

Look outside. If you are high up you will see the vast, curving horizon, all that distance away. Now just think what that really is. It is not even a small amount of a fraction of the size of our planet. Remember that our planet is spinning at about 1700 kilometres per hour, and is circling a star 90 million miles away at 107,000 kilometres per hour.
Our sun is just one of billions and billions in our galaxy, and our galaxy is one of perhaps trillions in the universe.

By now you may be feeling very small and insignificant. Don't be. Remember that None of our ancestors ever failed to reproduce, all left offspring to carry their genetic legacy into the future. We are ourselves descendants in an unbroken line of successful organisms that has been going for well over 2.5 billion years. And look at us.
We are the first species to truly grasp just how special we are, and in just a few short millenia, we have gone from primitive hunter-gatherers to the advanced, technological society we have today. Just think what we could achieve in this universe we find ourselves in, and wonder.


-Slide: "The future can be more beatiful than anything ever produced by nature."
-slide: "Humanity has such potential, if we only preserve it."

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[fs93543]

science disproves evolution, but there must be a reason why we exsist other wise we wouldn't exsist

[nashertheatheist]

@fs93543

Science does not disprove evolution. Far from it. Every scrap of experimental, genetic, physiological and palaeontological evidence supports the fact that evolution happens. And I really mean that. Either evolution happens, or God is lying through its teeth.

Literally every single argument against the idea that evolution happens has been debunked utterly.

[meanmrmustard89]

Love this video man you think exactly the way I do, apart from I struggle with bipolar disorder, if your willing to except the labelling. Anyway I watch this video whenever I feel really depressed because just the thought of seeing that beautiful infinite sky helps a lot. I need to do some travelling or something somewhere in which I can see it in all its glory. I'm currently studying physics; did you say that you were involved in this field?

[nashertheatheist]

@meanmrmustard89

I'm studying physics at A-Level, but I don't intend to continue it any further than that.

I find biology more interesting to study, but having an understanding of physics to the level that I do still helps enhance reality a great deal for me, so I imagine I will still continue taking a casual interest after finishing A-level.

Thanks for the kind words.

[infidel94]

5:19 isnt that buyern munichen's stadium. that looks like it

[nashertheatheist]

@infidel94

It's actually the Olympic opening ceremony in the Bird's Nest Stadium in Beijing.

[CrankItEveryDay]

Yeah and after you score a great career you travel the world and have a family with a kid or two and then have grandchildren later on after your children are married, and then you die... and your genes begin to slowly become less and less prominent from generation to generation until every trace of you is wiped from the planet and even if you achieve something amazing and are known for it for a millienia will it really matter to you once your dead and stuck in space/time for an eternity.

[MatteoriteX]

Who says life has to have a reason?

[TheKnodel12]

I don't get how this gives point to life. Sure, there's a lot of things that are absolutely astounding, but life itself still seems to have no base meaning. We can stare in wonder at the stars all we want, but life's point still escapes my grasp anyhow.

[fs93543]

This universe is not made to exist forever, Christ has come before amd he will come again

[fs93543]

It is easier to believe  in Christ than evolution if you research the facts.

[DraconianSilenced]

@AurynThePaladin I agree with you completely. Which is why I find it difficult to precede through life pretending it all means something. I find existence to be absurd most of the time, and I can't wait to end it.

[AurynThePaladin]

"Just think what we could achieve in this universe"

The sad reality is there is no point in achievements. The cold death of the universe all but makes existence pointless, irrelevant and ultimately meaningless. I understand I have a very nihilistic view of existence, but I think it's the most intellectually honest position.

I was a Christian once, and damn that was comforting. I wish I could be Sipher and get reinserted back into the Matrix. Why? Because "ignorance is bliss".

[ExperimentLife]

That's it? Just because the universe is pretty means that I have to put up with stupid people?