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Edited by Memnoch: Please read this thread before participating in this discussion. Thank you. [img]smile.gif[/img]
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Guess we really HAD to Zman.
Here is the old thread:
http://www.ironworksforum.com/ubb/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=10;t=013552;p =7
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Originally posted by Masklinn:
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Ok now let's assume there is no God. Ok so you die, you die and there is no ultimate purpose to life. Woohoo.
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Do you ask yourself this question when a squirrel, a dog or a tree dies ? Do they have an ultimate purpose in life ? Do they go to this "better place" ?
Most of religious people would say : eh of course not !
Though you see, we re just some evolved squirrels.[/QUOTE]A squirrel is not born without instincts. A squirrel doesn't have to learn everything from obsevation the way a human does.
A squirrel does not question why it is here, nor get fed up and end it's own life.
A squirrel does not create works of art that express it's inner desires, dreams and hopes.
A squirrel does not hypothesise alternate scenarios before initiating an action, like a human does.
A squirrel does not get worked up in a fit over a perceived slight from it's mate.
A squirrel does not need to "get away from it all" because it's existence has become habitual and in a rut.
A squirrel does not kill for sport.
A squirrel does not embark on a search to find: It's real parents, it's homeland, what it really wants to do in it's life, a reason to keep on living.
We are considerably differnt from squirrels.
[ 01-23-2003, 10:31 PM: Message edited by: Memnoch ]