@Bastethotep #59495
Well, in a way I kinda get it. I suppose it is comforting for the average person to think that there is a force/intelligence guiding us. To know that our lives are meaningful and purpose-driven from the beginning and we can pass any responsibility for our mistakes upon that intelligent force.
That being said, as an existentialist I disagree. Yes, there is no guiding intelligent force (that any one knows of). Yes, there is no grand purpose to anything. But that is exactly what makes life so precious and worth living. We don’t have to be defined, we can just define ourselves! We can give ourselves our own purposes, and choose to do meaningful things ourselves and take responsibility for our own lives! Don’t be a pawn of some capricious dice playing deity, make your own fate.
To partially paraphrase a Paragon Shepard in ME3: Without a future of our own creation, we have no hope. And without hope, might just well be machines who do what we are told.
Besides, if you really think about it an all powerful intelligent force is more scary than hopeful. Either it has human morality like us, in which case it can be just as fallible as us. Or it doesn’t have human morality, in which case it might very well (even if benevolent) ignore us microbes in favor of the bigger picture.