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Is everyone so depressed now partially because modern science has probably proven there is no god / afterlife?

By that I mean, it must be an inherently comforting thing to think - we inherently know this and want there to be something after death, because it feels right, or more meaningful. There’s a reason basically every civilization ever has some sort of afterlife ethos.

I realize I am basically horseshoeing my way into evangelicalism but still. Maybe life was better if we believed there was something beyond this. [edit - please note that yes, the world is shitty, things are awful and getting worse, and that is exactly my point – we get THIS SHIT, and nothing else? god that’s awful]

the_toast_is_gone ,

Really? Science disproved God? News to me, could you tell me more?

prole ,

Didn’t disprove, just made clear that the odds are inconceivably low.

dependencyinjection ,

I’m not religious, but I want to add that the chance of us existing right now are inconceivably low so that’s not really an argument against God.

prole ,

You don’t understand statistics. It’s the opposite. The odds of life not existing in a universe this incomprehensibly large are infinitesimally small.

It would be far more notable if 4+billion years of this shit and none of the literally countless planets (in our galaxy alone.) capable of hosting life contained life.

superkret ,

No, science simply doesn’t (and can’t) provide any answers or odds for or against god.
God by definition isn’t subject to the laws of nature, and all science does is observe nature and come up with theories that fit the observation.

prole ,

It’s statistics, not science.

But it’s pretty clear you have a tenuous grasp on both, at best.

superkret ,

OK, what numbers go into those statistics? How do you calculate the odds of god existing? Should be precise, since it’s math.

leftzero ,

No, we’re depressed because of rampant enshittification.

Because the rights our parents and grandparents fought for are being eroded at an accelerating rate in the name of short term profits, religion, and other forms of irrationality.

Because we’ve fucked up the world to the point of it being too damn hot to survive in and we’re not only not doing anything to fix it, but we’re doing everything possible to make it worse.

Because we can no longer have any rational hope for a better future and can only irrationally hope for an ever more unlikely revolution to fix it, and even that probably wouldn’t make it any better in our lifetimes, or even our children’s lifetimes.

Because we can see civilisation collapsing around us, and we know that this time there’s probably no coming back, since we’ve squandered any and all resources a future civilization would require to reach the heights we’ve reached.

Because we murdered the future, and now we, and our children, and our children’s children, have to try and survive in its rotting corpse.

That’s why we’re depressed.

palarith ,

I am depressed because we are living in an ecological disaster wrapped in social disorder with a side dish of war.

masquenox ,

There is no scientific “proof” that gods exist or doesn’t exist. If you think that’s what the scientific method is all about, your understanding of science is unscientific.

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