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15 February 2008

The Earth is Not Here for Us.→[More:]Ignoring the unnecessary omnipotent-being-bashing in this, as an atheist I gotta say – eeep! The universe really is out to get us!

The idea of the ever-expanding universe creeps me out. How confident are the authoratative sources in this being a certainty?

post by: Five Fresh Fish at: 23:01 | 5 comments

I laughed quite a bit.

posted by CitrusFreak12 16 February | 00:25

I should clarify: not at the omnipotent-being-bashing, but at just how poorly set up the human body is. Especially towards the end.

posted by CitrusFreak12 16 February | 00:26

The universe is weird and wants to play.

posted by fissionchips 16 February | 00:32

H.P. Lovecraft understood all this, even though the science wasn't there in his day. He made the idea of a hostile universe sound a lot more colorful than it is, though.

(Just got to the malformed fetuses bit... eep. This wasn't what I was thinking of when I mentioned Lovecraft, but it might as well have been.)

posted by BoringPostcards 16 February | 03:26

I dunno... I guess I'm a glass is half full kind of guy. I listen to this and contemplate on how wonderful it is that we are here at all.

posted by Doohickie 16 February | 20:56

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