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 Resolved: Humans are disenfranchised/alienated from the rest of the Universe (6)

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Resolved: Humans are disenfranchised/alienated from the rest of the Universe

Human beings suffer from a sociocentrist notion that they are the only beings in existence. Is the human species relatively new in this sector of the Universe on the outer edges of the Milky Way Galaxy? Or like Rod Serling wrote about, are we just experimental creatures repeating the same mistakes over and over again? What do you think? Is there a more intelligent life form and superior race of beings elsewhere in the Universe who have given up on us? And perhaps return some day?

 

 

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Well, the odds of life being created is practically zero, so the odds of their being INTELLIGENT life out there is much less than practically zero (evolution can not be the same track for every living cell in other planets).

It's not that it's definite that we're the ONLY ones in the Universe who are intelligent beings; it's that if there is anything out there, it would be very, very far away. Something that would be almost impossible to ever come in any kind of contact or communication with.

Side: Practical
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Well my friend you have beat the odds and you are a living testiment/evidence of a created sentient thinking being. You are refuting your own claim that '...the odds of life being created is practically zero...' If you where uncreated you would not be making that claim. "All that I see around me is existence, I am part of existence, therefore I exist!"

That is deductive reasoning in debating circles: (i.e., All men are mortals, socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal).

My argument is specific to the sociocentrist or anthro-pomorphic view of man in this tiny fraction of time and space.

Perhaps we are the ones that are 'very far away' from where the action really is!

If we can really define what life is perhaps we will discover it within ourselves, as well as outside of ourselves!

"An unexamined life is not worth living" Socrates

Side: Practical
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I said PRACTICALLY zero, not zero. That is by probability (the conditions for life to have began could hardly happen. The fact that it has already happen is close to a miracle, and the odds of it ever happening again are slimmer than slim, almost non-existent).

If the Universe is actually infinite, than there are an infinite amount of living things. But once again, we have to be practical.

Side: Practical
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Lol.. I don't know about aliens watching over us

But your point about us making mistakes over and over again. I think we do.. but we improve upon them one step at a time. Right now we're in the crappy part and are making many mistakes. Overtime we'll improve ourselves and slowly begin a new era which is similar to one before. Then over time this will lead to a crap era like now but different etc. etc. and the cycle continues.

Side: Practical
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That is the basic challenge facing languages and vocabulary in attempting to explain the hidden mysteries of the Universe. Who came up with the word "alien?"

Right here on Earth, if a person is not born in a certain country and visits another country on the same planet they are considered 'an alien.' So we apply the same term to extraterrestial life.

To other life forms, whether they exist or not, we would be aliens to them, or perhaps brothers and sisters sharing one common energy field scattered throughout the entire Universe called "LOVE!"

I agree with you that we make mistakes over and over again. But then again isn't that what knowledge, love, and experience are suppose to do? Rid the human race of ignorance!

Side: Practical