Film Questions first exam 11632

If ten years ago God existed and magically appeared in front of me and began to explain how I was nothing more than “stuff” in a meat suit, I would feel irrelevant and empty. Almost as if there was no purpose for existing. This is something I’ve come to except now through my teen/adult years, the idea that our universe is so huge and ever expanding that in comparison our tiny planet and tiny problems are somewhat irrelevant. For example our sun can erupt a solar flare large enough to wipe out Earth along with everyone on it, or in a more elaborate example Earth could be destroyed by Vogons in order to build an interstellar highway. The human race could be wiped out in an instant, and on the some planet in the far reaches of the galaxy there are aliens going about their daily lives never knowing about Earth and the cool people that lived on it. Life would go on and all of our problems and worrying would have been for nothing. If the Earth were to blow up in a freak solar flare accident and no one in space was around to see it, who’s to say we even ever existed? So if our planet is one of billions in the gigantic mass of blackness we call space, and if we are just “stuff” and none of this matters because we are all going to die someday and life would go on, then what is the point of all this? Why am I spending money, time, and gas on going to school every week if I could die tomorrow and it would have all been for nothing? My answer to that is that we as human have hope wired into our brains. Hope that we’ll live a long prosperous lives, and that our hard work will pay off some day and that what we are doing won’t be for nothing. It is in understanding that life is meaningless that gives meaning to the smaller things in life. You learn to appreciate life more and all its little moments, except for traffic. You learn to enjoy the things that make you happy and bring meaning to your life even if we are only here for a short moment. We should enjoy life because we can all die tomorrow and no alien in space would care.


When I was a kid I’d go to church every Sunday with my family to worship God and Jesus. I was taught that God was always watching and if I misbehaved I’d go to hell. As I got older I started to find many contradictions between the bible and the people who practiced its teachings. I began to question my faith and eventually came to the conclusion that it was not for me. One other example was me believing that turning on the light inside a moving vehicle was illegal because my mom would always flip out and I think she actually told me it was illegal. But when I got older I found out it’s actually not.