Should People Believe They are Like Batteries and Once They are Spent it's All Over?
Are humans just like batteries and when their lifetime of heartbeats has ended, they merely die? Should people believe that they are like Batteries and once they are spent, it is all over? Well, I guess such a notion basically throws all religion out of the window doesn't it. Still there are some biologists who still believe that the human heart only has "x" number of heartbeats. The reason I bring up this interesting, yet bothersome topic is that it was recently proposed to our online think tank by an atheist gentleman:
Why is it so hard for people to think that they might be just like a battery with a limited amount of life. And when its spent, its spent.The issue seems to stem from the unknown and from fear and touches not only at the human heart but also at the human created religions; remember Maslow and the hierarchy of needs, self-preservation is at the top of the list. If someone promised someone something, so great as "eternal salvation" of course they would be willing to serve someone else's will in now in trade for that everlasting payment to be fulfilled at a later date.
Actually in the case of religion, which is a man-made thing, it is an excellent control mechanism for humans. Since humans presently do not comprehend what is really going on and they so desire not to die; religion answers many of the questions man has asked and philosophers have pondered. Heck a new religion might be that we are living in a Virtual Reality world, we created, thus making us all gods and when the game is over, we simply all wake up and carry on? No one can prove that is not the case, just like no one can prove there is a god or gods. Believing in something you cannot know, is somewhat problematic of course. Thus, getting back to the "battery concept" well we cannot know that either and their maybe a way to genetically modify a human so that he can live forever and continually renew from the energy that he collects, a self-sustaining battery if you will in the most hypothetical of definitions.
L. Winslow is an Economic Advisor to the Online Think Tank, a Futurist and retired entrepreneur http://www.worldthinktank.net
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