Discussion Life is a coincidence and an accident that happened in the universe.

[Praestat_Mori]

The title says it. That's what came to my mind rn. What do you think about it?

"Life is a coincidence and an accident that happened in the universe."

 

[Forever Sleep]

I think I prefer that cause rather than a God creating it. I don't like the inequalities of this setup. To think this was purposefully created like this is deeply troubling to me.

It's kind of odd though isn't it? That some enormous planets may be devoid of life. What if they have life that we can't detect though? Like- why is there only one hospitable planet earth in our solar system? Because it had the right conditions for life to develop I guess. You'd think 'life would have found a way' if it was so resilient though to develop in some form on the other planets too... Maybe it has...

What I find even more depressing was an advert I heard this morning. That if the earth's lifespan to date were condensed into a day, humans would only be around for 3 seconds (although- Googling it again, it claims 1 second!) Yet- in that time- look at how much we've f*cked everything up! We're on the verge of making the earth inhospitable for both ourselves and a huge amount of other species I imagine.

Plus- when you realise how shorter time we've been here and how most religions seem to value humans over any other creature- what on earth was God doing before we existed? Why haven't we found the dinosaur equivalent of Jesus?

 

[ZeroM24]

Not an accident, a disaster.

 

[Cubetty]

I think you're totally right—there are so many elements in the periodic table, and each one has its own special traits. The fact that carbon is the basis of life on Earth is completely wild, like something random thrown out by the chaos the universe always seems to lean toward. I like thinking about that when I'm anxious—realizing we're just this tiny speck in an infinite number of possible situations the universe can throw at us calms me down. It makes me see my problems aren't such a big deal after all

 

[Pluto]

 

[ijustwishtodie]

Yes, life is an accident. A massive, horrible, horrific accident. Life is a mistake, not a gift