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Old 07-08-2007, 04:52 PM   #24 (permalink)
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For what? I think life is a pleasent response but not an essential "caligraphy" to the Universe. The Universe doesn't need life to continue what it is doing. The real party is once we as a race get out there. I think life looks like more of an antfarm than anything mental or spiritual actually.
Well, I'm not postulating anything spiritual, any more than a sperm is spiritual. I just think that humans just happen to be the reproductive agents of this planet. And the universe is still in its infancy, it has some tens of billions of years left, at least. Life on Earth does resemble an antfarm right now, but that may not always be the case.
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