Pessimism Towards Humanity Essay

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Pessimism Towards Humanity The human race; why are we here? In what way are we supposed to fulfil our purpose, what is our purpose anyway? We were “Put” inside of this universe and every day we head closer to that answer, but in actuality, we grow further away from that answer. Our purpose on this planet is unknown and the only thing guaranteed in our lives, which we didn't choose to exist in, is death. In a way, our only purpose is to die. The human race is quite literally a plague; “a contagious bacterial disease”. If you think about it, the birth of humanity was the start of the worst plague this planet has ever experienced. From the start of the universe, the big bang that is. The explosion of gas giants created the reality …show more content…
This life only visible under microscopic circumstances, bacteria formed from the continuous bombardment of stray asteroids into the planet surface releasing gasses forming a less protective atmosphere that we take for granted to date. From there on out we gradually evolved over billions of years into the beings we are today. We take for granted how fragile we are and what we came from is not considered in our strive to find our origin. The atmosphere that protects us from the UV rays the giant gas ball that heats our solar system emits, is being destroyed by the toxic emissions produced by us. Above the north pole, the carbon dioxide and other harmful gasses that are emitted are ripping a hole in the atmosphere we desperately need to survive. If our plant's atmosphere was to suddenly just disappear, the effects would be catastrophic. Our home would erupt into a worldwide firestorm, scorching everything on the surface destroying any signs of life on this fragile planet we are slowly destroying. Science and maths are our way of understanding the universe. However, as George Bernard Shaw (Irish playwright) once toasted to Elber Einstein “Science is always wrong, it never solves a problem without …show more content…
As we get more answers to the questions we seek, we only create more questions to be answered. Also, the tools we use to help us to understand this reality we live in is invented by us. In other words, we will never be able to understand our purpose in this universe. The maths and sciences we use we created by humans to help us understand the world. The universe is a multidimensional, complex aura of the unknown, unable to be perceived by the human mind, to complex to even comprehend. What is our place in this world? Not our planet, but the figment of reality we call time. Does time even exist? Obviously, you said yes because you can look at a clock or your watch and see for your self. However, the idea of time is linear, created by humanity. Meaning that its always heading forward, never skipping a beat or heading backwards. But can you prove that time itself is in fact “real”? We didn't invent the idea of time but changed it into a state of which we can understand. Like the idea of the “Big Bang” or Christianity, there are different ideas on how our universe was created. One of these “ideas” is the philosophy of; “Last Thursdayism”. This philosophy state that the universe was created last Thursday,

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