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Re: are we alone in the universe?

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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
Im hoping that once it starts to sink in that theres nobody else out there, then humanity will start to take ownership of life seriously, and put our collective energy as a species into an effort to find ways to spread life as far and wide as we can.

The first step is to understand our real situation. Not what we wish it to be. What it actually is.
This sort of comes back to my points. If we're supposed to spread out, who's to say that we're not the result of another civilization that decided to do the same? Not having contact with them doesn't mean anything. There's orphans out there that have no idea who their biological parents are, much less talk to them. That doesn't mean that they don't exist.

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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
The first step is to understand our real situation. Not what we wish it to be. What it actually is.
Again, evidence can be interpreted any way that you want to. Just because everyone sees that the earth is a sphere doesn't mean that it is. It just means that everyone is having the same delusion. Maybe it actually is flat but some sort of Einstein-like space-time curvature makes it appear to be round. There's no such thing as conclusive evidence, just evidence strong enough to make a very good guess. Your version of reality only exists in your mind.
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