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One thing I find missing in these debates is someone saying "You know what? That's a good point, I never thought of that." We see entrenched views with facts and figures, but we never see that the other guy or gal has pointed out even a small detail that gives one pause for thinking that maybe I could modify my beliefs. What is important is that we have two great thinkers in the world like Steven Pinker and John Mearsheimer.
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Will we ever understand the universe? My guess is that when we do it will be game over; humanity will have passed the ultimate test and everything will begin again. But one thing a lot of people will agree with and that is Sabine Hossenfelder and Rupert Sheldrake and Bjorn Ekeberg among a host of other great thinkers have helped us understand many, many things about our world because of your wonderful minds. A student of mine---a few years ago I was an English teacher as a side-job to being an artist---was surprised when I asked him what was the purpose of life. "You always ask me the most complex questions," he mused. But then he blurted "The purpose of life is to enjoy my life." Here I was for decades trying to cobble together a fantastic trail of high-brow adjectives to describe what I have been doing since I got here. I thanked him profusely, because for me boys and girls, he hit it right on the nose. You don't have to invent the light bulb as your purpose on life, you have to find the key to enjoying your life all the way through to the end.
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@patricksee10 GGGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. What is the one thing that makes you or me or anyone for that matter, unique in the universe? Have you ever noticed that even if you wanted to, you can't give away your point of view? It's because it's what you have accumulated from your experience in life and it's why your point of view is unique to you and only you. You have just read mine and it has nothing to do with yours, because it's from my experience and distilled down into my philosophy of life.
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Nature makes a leaf to the exact thickness and dimension for it to function. Period. Just look at nature and when you do you realize that the multi-verse theory does not cut the mustard for Mother Nature. Nature would not make infinite numbers of the universe because all life functions well enough on its own within one universe and to make extra universes serves no function just like making more leaves than are necessary for a plant to survive or making the leaves bigger or thicker than is necessary is not nature's way of doing things.
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