At some point and time in our future we will have to decide , how human and free we wish to remain , because otherwise we will unconsciously drift into some alternative emotional state dictated by our biological properties and not controlled by our minds , intellect and knowledge .
Robert Nozick makes an excellent point when he argues in favor of vegetarianism ; " Human beings , he says , accept and justify the eating of meat on the grounds that the animals we slaughter are too far below us in sensitivity and intelligence to compare with us . It follows that if representatives of a truly superior extraterrestrial species were to visit Earth , and apply the same criterion , they could proceed to eat us in good conscience . By the same token , scientists among them , superior aliens , might find us , human beings , uninteresting , our intelligence weak , our passions vague and amazingly vain .
Uncle Freud once said " that our god has been guilty of an inferior , uneven and poorly designed piece of work ". That is true to a degree greater than we intend and admit to ourselves .
David Hume once remarked that reason is the slave of the passion . I would add my interpretation and description of most religions , where I believe that substance matters little , the form is all and everything .
According to F.C. Wallace , mankind has produced on the order of 100 thousand religions . The predisposition to religious belief is the most complex and powerful force in the human mind , still some of us continue to nourish believes that science , mind and knowledge will eventually banish religion .
Prometheus from the Titan race had this exchange back in his times :
Chorus: Did you perhaps go further than you have told us ??
Prometheus: I caused mortals to cease foreseeing doom .
Chorus: What cure did you provide them with against that sickness ??
Prometheus: I placed in them blind hopes .
Thank you all for listening to my mind boggling issues , salamat .
mind boggling indeed!
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