what we are talking about is getting further apart now
within the context of the human race one person's actions can be significant, but on the universal scale they aren't.

To bring it back to life after death, my view is that as we are such a small and insignificant part of the universe why would we be singled out for such a thing? unless it is a side-effect of consciousness, but then where do you draw the line. Would all animals be there? Just us, dolhpins and chimps and the like? How about aliens?

I certainly don't think that there can be an afterlife in the religious sense as that would imply that we are somehow special amongst the vastness of everything, and that is just massively egomaniacal.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:45, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Ok, well
You have to admit that we are somehow special. To start with, we're having this conversation. No other animal considers anything like this.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:51, Reply)

oh yeah, I find our existence amazing
I'm a stoner don't forget ;-)
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:54, Reply)

:-D
I keep hoping. I think we can do a lot.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:56, Reply)

I find things like the way our skin works fascinating
hands as well. good stuff.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:58, Reply)

The more I learnt at school about white cells
and how they protect us, the more amazed I was that we were alive :)
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 12:03, Reply)

How do we know that other great apes don't consider this?
Or dolphins?
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:56, Reply)

There are other reasons why we differ
even if you want to believe they have conciousness and they think about themselves as individuals, they don't modify their habitat to make their life easier, not in a big scale (I don't think they do it even in a small scale) and they act without considering what'll happen in the future.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 12:04, Reply)

Beavers modify their environment.
Heheh beavers.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 12:18, Reply)