So I figured I had to answer this question: what I believe (remember?). I don’t believe in God, nor Allah, Buddah or Zeus. I know humans are just animals, like any other. And we evolved to be what we are today thru the process of evolution. We think of ourselves as special, but I think most animal species will think of themselves as special too. The fact that we humans actually THINK of ourselves doesn’t change much. I think that when our consciousness evolved, and we became conscious of our own inevitable death, our minds thought up a solution (religion) to this otherwise depressing fact. I also think mankind has evolved beyond the necessity for religion and that nowadays it’s artificially kept in place by churches and governments.
I think the big bang theory is a plausible theory on how the universe came to existence, but honestly I don’t really know much about the physics concerning these theories.
If anything I’d like to see our world as one big organism of which we are all part. I think we should start treating it as such. The world is a bit sick, it has cancer [Cancer is a group of diseases in which cells are aggressive (grow and divide without respect to normal limits), invasive (invade and destroy adjacent tissues), and sometimes metastatic (spread to other locations in the body) /wiki]. I think mankind is our world’s cancer. Think about it: mankind multiplies (grow and divide) without respect to normal limits, our existence causes other species to extinct (destroyed), and we have migrated (spread) from just a small place in Africa to more or less the whole world with exception of the poles.
I don’t expect mankind to kill the world, however, in time it will change the world to a place that is less suitable for us to live in (more radiation, more flooding and more viruses). The world will kill mankind or at least reduce it to a sustainable level. Maybe the survivors will have learned from this experience and will start living in harmony with what’s around them, what feeds them and what shelters them. But I think that our nature (to procreate) combined with our intelligence is a recipe for yet another outbreak of HUMANITY!!!!
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Heel recent ben ik gegrepen door het Fixed Gear virus. Zomaar, ik zag iets op het internet en als een klein kind dacht ik: dat wil ik ook! Het was de eenvoud en elegantie van een fixie die me greep. Geen onnatuurlijk uitstekende remkabels en derailleurs. Geen toeters en bellen: alleen fiets. Maar ook wel vreemd zo’n fiets zonder freewheel. Daarop kun je trappers niet stilhouden, de ketting zit als het ware direct vast op het achterwiel. Fietst dat wel lekker?