What do you really believe?
As an egomaniac, I have a lot of very strong beliefs.
I'm not a total "Science solves all" person... Nor am I a "Science has all the answers" person... Or even a "Jesus is my homeboy" person...
But there are some things I don't believe.
Here's a list of them.
I don't believe in souls for instance. I feel that people are born as a blank sheet. From the minute they begin consciously interacting with their environment, their brain collect information which goes to create their personality. The person they are inside. Their 'soul'.
I don't believe in anything after death. This is because I don't see a 'soul' as seperate to the body, it's simply the way your brain tells your body to interact with your environment.
I don't believe a human is a person until they're born; until they take their first breath of air and are exposed to the world. This again, is because I don't see a person as having a 'soul'. They don't have a persona until they begin consciously interacting.
I don't believe in ghosts. Again, because of the no 'soul' thing.
I don't believe in a god or a devil, but I could be wrong. Just as I could be wrong about everything I do or don't believe in. I don't believe in "divine entities" as it were because I've seen no real evidence.
Finally... As for the whole "who are we, where did we come from" debate... I don't think we as a species will ever know the answer to any of "life's great questions", nor do I think it actually matters. "It's better to be in the dark because in the dark theres fear, but at least there's still hope..." I feel like I have better things to do with my time than search for answers to questions I don't need to know, because life, however it was created, is rather short, and my thought on it is that it is to be lived.
I think I will...
I'm not a total "Science solves all" person... Nor am I a "Science has all the answers" person... Or even a "Jesus is my homeboy" person...
But there are some things I don't believe.
Here's a list of them.
I don't believe in souls for instance. I feel that people are born as a blank sheet. From the minute they begin consciously interacting with their environment, their brain collect information which goes to create their personality. The person they are inside. Their 'soul'.
I don't believe in anything after death. This is because I don't see a 'soul' as seperate to the body, it's simply the way your brain tells your body to interact with your environment.
I don't believe a human is a person until they're born; until they take their first breath of air and are exposed to the world. This again, is because I don't see a person as having a 'soul'. They don't have a persona until they begin consciously interacting.
I don't believe in ghosts. Again, because of the no 'soul' thing.
I don't believe in a god or a devil, but I could be wrong. Just as I could be wrong about everything I do or don't believe in. I don't believe in "divine entities" as it were because I've seen no real evidence.
Finally... As for the whole "who are we, where did we come from" debate... I don't think we as a species will ever know the answer to any of "life's great questions", nor do I think it actually matters. "It's better to be in the dark because in the dark theres fear, but at least there's still hope..." I feel like I have better things to do with my time than search for answers to questions I don't need to know, because life, however it was created, is rather short, and my thought on it is that it is to be lived.
I think I will...