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Space/Science » in reply to re: I don't think so

People want the world to end...
LJK — (archived)

...mainly for the same reason many hope that aliens will come to Earth and "rescue" us from ourselves: They worry that their miserable lives will drag on for decades with no way out, rather than ending the suffering quickly one way or another.

We are responsible for ourselves. Most of the messes in our lives are our doing, and we can get out of them to make life better for everyone if we want to.

"Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie which we ascribe to heaven."

- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

"Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying." -- Arthur C. Clarke

"William James used to preach the 'will to believe.' For my part, I should wish to preach the 'will to doubt.' ...What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite."

-- Lord Bertrand Arthur William Russell, Skeptical Essays (1928)

"Do we, holding that gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?" -- EURIPIDES, Hecuba

"Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?"

-- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)

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