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Phryxus
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I was looking at the THN forums today and found this thread: Humans close to discovering origin of Universe. Now i'm not going to mention too much about it in this thread, because it's already got one, but when I posted my comment I realised that as well as making it quite interesting for the future, there was a more important question that needed to be asked (the same one from the thread, sorry!).
This question of mine is, if the conclusive answer was found to the original question, the one of "Does God really exist?", would you actually want to know?
If it was proved that there really is no God, as well as creating a severely interesting situation in the hands of fanatic believers, would that mean that there is definitely no 'after-life'? That what we experience now is all it is ever going to be?
I know this is a very difficult topic and that religion based discussions can normally fall down spectacularly, but what i'm talking about isn't whether religion is good or bad, what i'm asking is whether the complete knowledge of our own mortality (more so than now, as we're generally ignorant) is something that will be good for society. The final realisation that we are alone, are independent and fully responsible could be the catalyst for anarchy, yet also for stability, it depends how and if the news is ever taken.
With this in mind, what are your thoughts? If you could know, would you?
This question of mine is, if the conclusive answer was found to the original question, the one of "Does God really exist?", would you actually want to know?
If it was proved that there really is no God, as well as creating a severely interesting situation in the hands of fanatic believers, would that mean that there is definitely no 'after-life'? That what we experience now is all it is ever going to be?
I know this is a very difficult topic and that religion based discussions can normally fall down spectacularly, but what i'm talking about isn't whether religion is good or bad, what i'm asking is whether the complete knowledge of our own mortality (more so than now, as we're generally ignorant) is something that will be good for society. The final realisation that we are alone, are independent and fully responsible could be the catalyst for anarchy, yet also for stability, it depends how and if the news is ever taken.
With this in mind, what are your thoughts? If you could know, would you?