Blog assignment 3, Contact

I will start this post with some questions that came to me while reading the book Contact by Carl Sagan.

Why must the scientific believe be the opposite of the religious believe?

Why can´t God foreseen our will to find something more in the universe and put it there for us to find?

How come the alienation (coincidence?) in our society today only keeps getting bigger and bigger although we know much more about almost everything then a hundred years ago?

Is the life that I am living now “it” or is there something more?

My purpose is not to try to answer all of these questions but maybe you as a reader will start to reflect over this.

I do not think that the two ways of describing the world and its evolution has to be opposite of each other, just two different ways of telling the story. For example the scientists describe the creation of the universe like a big bang where everything was created within. The Christian church and the bible tell us a story about a God creating the universe in seven days. The bible doesn´t say anything about big bang on the seventh day but who knows, maybe he snapped his fingers and that was in fact the big bang.

I believe that the greatest source of alienation in our society today is the lack of affinity and communion. If we don´t have anything that connects us people together the feeling of loneliness will tear us apart even more.

My final question is the most difficult to answer in my opinion, maybe the toughest question that I come to face in my life. This question splits me so much that I sometimes feel schizophrenic. One part of me believes that I will come to another place or maybe the same place re-born and start a new life. My other half is much darker in a way and that half believes that this really is it. This part of me often comes when I am feeling depressed and having difficulty finding the meaning with my life. What if that would be the case, would I really live my life the way I do?

Maybe… or maybe not.