I really enjoy reading Cenk...

[BeyondThePale]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/the-liberation-of-meaning_b_16787.html


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The Universe is approximately 12 to 15 billion years old. The Earth is about 4.5 billion years old. Homo sapiens have been around for roughly 100,000 years. Earliest recorded history of humans dates back to at most 30,000 years ago (counting cave art here).

100,000 years among 15 billion years is a cosmic joke. It doesn't even qualify as a hiccup in time. The average life expectancy for humans is under 80 years. The insignificance of that period time within 15 billion years cannot be overstated. Our lives go by quicker than a cosmic second.

We are so small as to be nearly nonexistent. Yet we are led to believe that we are the center of the damn universe. Everything we do is so important. We lead these careful, guilt-ridden, cautious lives only to die abruptly and disappear into cosmic insignificance.

I don't know where it came from. I don't know what it is or what it means. But we have this incredible gift of life for a very short period of time - and we spend it arguing and worrying and fighting and waiting.

What are we waiting for? What - heaven? Hell? You have got to be kidding me. Please don't tell me that you are wasting the one precious life you have waiting around for the fairytales of our ancestors. Our ancestors thought the stars were holes in the sky. They thought the Earth was flat, that the Sun revolved around us and that there is a man with a gray beard up in the sky.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/the-liberation-of-meaning_b_16787.html



I enjoy his columns and am tired of frightened, pie-in-the-sky, zealots claiming to be the last bastion of morality and demanding to control what we think, feel, and do--especially when the history of religion is filled with atrocities and power plays.

Everybody says they love John Lennon and the song... but I wonder how many really get it...

PS Yes I know I stepped on many people's spiritual toes, but mine get trampled upon everyday by moralistic hypocrites who fervently believe that they know god.