Zone1 "The more I look at the Universe, the less convinced I am that there is something benevolent going on."

[ding]

Nope.

and now you've lost me.

too bad. could've been interesting

Maybe try reading it in the context of the post it was responding to.

 

[ding]

What is the purpose of a rock? What is it's meaning?

So you can’t seek the answers to those questions concerning yourself until you know the answers for a rock?

Seems disingenuous to me. Is there anything in the universe you know better than you know yourself?

 

[ding]

Life has no real purpose, no meaning.

Based upon what?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

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“What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?​

"The most astounding fact is the knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on Earth. The atoms that make up the human body are traceable to the crucibles that cooked light elements into heavy elements in their core under extreme temperatures and pressures. These stars, the high mass ones among them went unstable in their later years. They collapsed and then exploded, scattering their enriched guts across the galaxy. Guts made of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and all the fundamental ingredients of life itself. These ingredients become part of gas clouds that condense, collapse, form the next generation of solar systems. Stars with orbiting planets, and those planets now have the ingredients for life itself. So that when I look up at the night sky and I know that yes, we are part of this universe, we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up – many people feel small because they’re small and the Universe is big – but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars. There’s a level of connectivity. That’s really what you want in life, you want to feel connected, you want to feel relevant you want to feel like you’re a participant in the goings on of activities and events around you. That’s precisely what we are, just by being alive…”

― Neil deGrasse Tyson

He sounded like Kamala there

 

[ding]

If we as a species; are made up of the same stuff as starts are -- are meant to replicate -- are more similar to other animals than not?

Everything is made up of the exact same stuff; the same exact building blocks of sub-atomic particles. That literally began as energy which popped into existence ~14 billion years ago. That stuff was not pre-existing stuff. It was created in an improbable chain reaction of paired particle production. That stuff is implausibly fine tuned to produce intelligence. The laws of nature predestined - even before space and time were created from nothing- that beings that know and create would arise. Those are the facts.

 

[Cougarbear]

"What is the purpose of a rock, of disease? "​

You must be responding to something in your own head -- but okay:

So, now time and space step in for Heaven?

the next is to me, a pathetic way to look at life

I feel really bad for you if this is how you'll live out the rest of your existence here on Earth.

I feel really bad for you if you will not reach your potential evolution during eternal life after this earth. Again, I follow an actual plan laid out by Heavenly Father. Now, what is the purpose of this universe for you? None? Yep!