Reply #36: Does the world end, or is it just humanity that gets the boot?

[stopbush]

Let's face it, humans are the only life form on this ball that realize anything about anything. But we're a species just like every other species, and the odds are that sooner rather than later, we'll be gone as well. The Earth will still be here for billions of years after we're gone, just as it was here for billions of years before we got here. When we're gone, the universe will most likely lose any awareness of itself. That's the one constructive thing humans have added to the chaos that is existence - awareness of the universe.

The ultimate ego trip at the base of Xianity is the belief that humans are the be all and end all of the universe, and that believers in Jesus are a subset who are the be all and end all beyond the universe (and for eternity, no less).

It's stupid and childish, but that's what most people believe.