Train Hard

Our world is not perfectly realThis universe is not our true home. Why then are we here? If men live only one life as Christianity affirms, then perhaps this is a natural place to get one’s eternal life started.

If, however, as I think, there is something to the doctrines of metempsychosis and suchlike, then we must admit that the main answer is to improve in all of our faculties.

But in that case, this universe is somewhat of a simulation: a boot camp for both the soul and the body.

Re: Would Human Extinction Be a Tragedy?

Orc burning hanged human corpsesThe philosopher Todd May is right that human extinction would be a tragedy, though not for the reasons he gives.

Contra May, the destruction of the human race would be the worst possible thing this universe could experience.

Finally, animal suffering, which for May constitutes a reason to welcome our demise, (1) is largely irrelevant, (2) is justified, and (3) would not diminish, and might even increase, even if the human race came to an end.