[QUOTE="CecilChups"][QUOTE="wis3boi"]

a universe without an intervening creator is far more elegant and beautiful, and a lot more hopeful.  We have each other, friends and family.

mrbojangles25

Rot? Not necessarily.  They fertilize.  They compost.  They turn into something beautiful.  A tree to hold the nests of birds, a bush to bare the fruit to feed animals, the nutrient soil or a beautiful pasture that future people will paint pictures of.

Its been a while since physics, but how does it go? Energy never disappears, it only changes form?

This is not counting the memories and evidence of a person's existence, passed on from generation to generation.

I think you need to reframe your worldview, Cecil, it seems to be really negative.  Yeah, stuff can get pretty ugly, especially if you listen to what is forced on you,  but the steady trickle of good overwhelms even the greatest of infrequent waves of negativity.

More proof that our species is doomed. Sorry Earth, I'm sorry that you have to put up with our crap.

[QUOTE="CecilChups"]

[QUOTE="MirkoS77"]What a terrible way to see things.  You just need to know where to look, you are only seeing what you choose to.  There is as much beauty in the world as there is ugliness.  How you decide to view and live your life around it is only up to you. I'm a pessimist myself, but even I can easily say there is always hope and it's very possible to see all the good among the bad.

MirkoS77

Also, knowing humanity will kill itself out of selfishness and greed really doesn't help matters. We had it all and now we will destroy it all. I just feel sorry for the planet itself that it has to deal with our species.

I find Bill Waterson put it best:

"It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept."

[QUOTE="CecilChups"][QUOTE="wis3boi"]

and yet it's the most healthy and peacful time in human history.  Calling things hopeless because you turned on fox news or cnn is a sign of bigger issues. 

chaoscougar1

[QUOTE="ShadowsDemon"]I believe in God so I don't have this problemZeviander

[QUOTE="CecilChups"][QUOTE="bigfoot2045"]

There are roughly 400 billion stars in the milky way galaxy, billions of galaxies in the universe, and planets seem to be extremely common. We've found around 1000 planets just in nearby star systems. Out of those trillions of possiblities, I find it highly unlikely that Earth is unique in the universe in harboring intelligent life. However, I find it highly unlikely that we could ever make contact with alien life. We would need to be able to travel many times the speed of light, and I'm just not sure that's possible. But who knows, 100 years ago, traveling to the moon would have been inconceivable and we've done it, and even as recently as the 1990s a device like the iPhone was Star Trek level sci-fi stuff. Could knights fighting with swords 1000 years ago ever have conceived of nuclear weapons that can destroy entire continents? We could see some insane advances in technology that would make FTL travel possible. Human technology has defied all odds and done incredible things many times before. 

bigfoot2045

The atomic bomb isn't even all bad. It might one day save us from a near earth impact. 

Also, you touch on a good point, which is that war has always been a huge motivating factor in the advancement of technology. Our current space faring technology is largely a result of WW2 and the Cold War. I have a feeling if an alien invasion ever happened, we would see our technology advance hundreds of years overnight, assuming we survive the initial onslaught. This is the premise of many sci-fi novels, like Ender's Game. 

[QUOTE="CecilChups"] Its IMPOSSIBLE to be positive in a world where greed is rampant, cost of everything is going up, gas is becoming unaffordable and our leaders are psychopaths and corrupt. Face it, there IS no hope.MirkoS77

Also, knowing humanity will kill itself out of selfishness and greed really doesn't help matters. We had it all and now we will destroy it all. I just feel sorry for the planet itself that it has to deal with our species.

[QUOTE="ShadowsDemon"][QUOTE="wis3boi"]

please get to a doctor and get medicated or some counciling.  Either you are buying into the media terror, highly depressed, or an angsty teen. 

wis3boi

and yet it's the most healthy and peacful time in human history.  Calling things hopeless because you turned on fox news or cnn is a sign of bigger issues.