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Sincerely, The Universe (a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net)
submitted 6 months ago by hettan123
[–]hettan123[S] 12 points13 points14 points 6 months ago
Source: "Symphony of Science Official Fan Page" on Facebook
[–]bardfaust 2 points3 points4 points 5 months ago
I fucking love that shit.
[–][deleted] 5 months ago
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[–]flyheight 5 points6 points7 points 5 months ago*
Dear Life Form,
You have not reached required requisition for understanding certain questions that you have just posed. We require that at least minimum number of your existing population to understand the basic mathematics and science to create the positive environment for reaching the requisite standard for such an answer.
Till then, we will provide cake.
Your advisor, Science
[–]starfixh 9 points10 points11 points 6 months ago
I love that the Universe's signature is just a wide smear of cosmos
[–]BaldricBlack 5 points6 points7 points 6 months ago
It did appear though that the signature was from a galaxy, perhaps the galaxy in question works in the Universe's communications department? But i'm not a professional so if we could get a doctor to confirm that would be great...
[–]Trevock 1 point2 points3 points 6 months ago
No no, see, it's like in a signature where the first letter is HUGE and then the rest of the letters are just scribbles.
[–]melechkibitzer 0 points1 point2 points 5 months ago
The signature is a galaxy! GASP
[–]shakabusatsu 13 points14 points15 points 6 months ago*
I'm confused. Doesn't this argue for some kind of living soul? Doesn't sound atheist, seems kind of buddhist. IMHO
[–]yuy168 16 points17 points18 points 6 months ago
I think what he means is the particles making up his body, not a "soul"
[–]ZorkFox 10 points11 points12 points 6 months ago
This. My carbon might go on to comprise another life form someday.
[–]mmine1 0 points1 point2 points 5 months ago
That's what I love about dying and no existence afterword, one day your particles may become another life form. It's a beautiful thought.
[–]PanicStil 0 points1 point2 points 5 months ago
Also known as a stars 'enriched guts'
[–]ramidowler 9 points10 points11 points 6 months ago
Doesn't this argue for some kind of living soul?
It's but art. What it argues is up to you.
[–]shakabusatsu 5 points6 points7 points 6 months ago
Or what I mean to say is, Are there atheists who believe in a soul?
[–]daytodave 2 points3 points4 points 6 months ago
Yup. Many Buddhists are atheists.
[–]iaea 1 point2 points3 points 5 months ago
i've always gotten through life replacing "sense of self/sentience" with "soul"
[–]Notagtipsy 0 points1 point2 points 6 months ago
Yes, my parents fit this description. Don't ask me why. I haven't managed a real answer out of them in the months that I've known this. But yet, such people do exist.
[–]AllTheWorldIsMad 2 points3 points4 points 6 months ago
Are you talking about the line: "We look forward to seeing you in another form..." ? I don't see soul in there. What you are made of has always been here and will continue to always be here. Who knows what will become of the very atoms that you are made of!
[–]bewertow 0 points1 point2 points 6 months ago
Seems to me like it just implies that the constituents of your body will eventually be recycled into some other life form.
[–]xMvRx 0 points1 point2 points 5 months ago
How are souls incompatible with atheism? As long as they don't require any god/s then what's wrong with a life-force that's not purely physical and can be separate from the body?
It's not scientific, and I very much doubt we have souls (in fact I firmly believe that's a load of tosh), but the idea of a human soul (or of the existence of Bigfoot) and atheism aren't mutually exclusive.
Just sayin'.
[–]shakabusatsu 0 points1 point2 points 5 months ago
The concept of the soul is the most addicting carefully guarded notion/fantasy that religions make up. This is why religious people distrust/hate atheists more so than other religions is because they believe we are taking this super-natural and immortal piece of them away. It was very freeing for me to no longer have a "soul" or a "destiny" but other people find the loss of the soul unbearable.
[–]Kellion 5 points6 points7 points 6 months ago
The hours and pay are good too, plus you get to work at home... planet.
[–]Notagtipsy 1 point2 points3 points 6 months ago
plus you get to work at home...
Neil Armstrong begs to differ.
[–]auntacid 0 points1 point2 points 6 months ago
Universe still home. Moon still universe.
I suppose that that's one way to look at it. The post I replied to, however, did specifically mention home planet, even though I did fail to quote that part.
[–]auntacid 1 point2 points3 points 6 months ago
Shit, I'm fucking blind!
[–]GenericJeans 13 points14 points15 points 6 months ago
Simply fantastic.
[–]Mistic721 1 point2 points3 points 6 months ago
Agreed! Every doctor should hand this to the parents of all new born babies...or maybe just drop millions of leaflets via air planes nation wide (as most other countries have "evolved" slightly faster then us and see it as a pre-school joke). I prefer the latter though.
[–]nothingexploded 0 points1 point2 points 6 months ago
Its that simple.
[–]Lost1010 -1 points0 points1 point 5 months ago
Absolutely excellent.
[–]Durpadur 15 points16 points17 points 6 months ago
this is one of the coolest things ive seen on r/atheism thus far.
[–]JMAC462 3 points4 points5 points 6 months ago
There is no argument for a soul, just that the atoms that make up our bodies are eternal. For example least say a supernova occurred 5 billion years ago and the heavier atomically elements made it to earth and then into you. When you die those elements will be returned to the earth to form maybe broccoli.
[–]shakabusatsu 1 point2 points3 points 6 months ago
Yeah I agree one doesn't exist. While this letter is entertaining, the letter is either written to some preexisting entity, or this is a letter you get at birth from... what? The scientific community? I would prefer it be signed, "Sincerely, the atheist community" "Sincerely, Humanity" or something else like that. "Sincerely, The Universe" sounds like it from a deity.
[–]bardfaust -1 points0 points1 point 5 months ago
It's just a personification for the sake of getting the point across.
[–]PhilSushi 2 points3 points4 points 6 months ago
DAE read that in cave johnson's voice?
[–]mustache_rider 2 points3 points4 points 6 months ago
Very Douglas Adams - sounding.
[–]Jarnin 2 points3 points4 points 6 months ago
The universe doesn't like to be anthropomorphized.
[–]meacle 1 point2 points3 points 6 months ago
Am I the only one that finds it a little off putting that its telling me to consult science? I would prefer 'reason' or something, 'rationality', 'your brain', 'your self'. I have nothing against science, just the tenor seems very dismissive/arrogant.
[–]mirex0_0 0 points1 point2 points 5 months ago
Reason and rationality are tools of science. Why limit to one of them?
[–]meacle 0 points1 point2 points 5 months ago
You can use reason without it being scentific. To say otherwise is to a) artificially discard endeavours in which you do use reason or b) to artificially extend 'science' past what science is. E.g. metaphysics, logic, philosophy in general. Also, I was kinda using them synonymously. And seeing as one of the definitions of 'rationality' is "agreeableness to reason, reasonableness" this seems perfectly, as it werer, reasonable. The point I was trying to make is that science is a particular way of dealing with the physical world - there are other perfectly rational, reasonable, logical ways as well, and said ways can be used to deal with phenomenon that can't be described as purely physical i.e. what we should do about the fact that we happen to be in the physical world. Personally, I would characterize science as a tool of reason, not the other way around.
[–]neocow 1 point2 points3 points 5 months ago
So wait, you don't exist after death? And here i thought this was r/atheism.
[–]Teh_Compass 0 points1 point2 points 6 months ago
Wouldn't it be better to call our solar system Sol instead of 1?
This really makes sense of Dawkins' "Pantheism is sexed-up atheism" quote. I myself am a pantheist.
[–]fatloui 0 points1 point2 points 6 months ago
Dear the Universe,
Why are you soooo Huuuuummanggggussss Beeeggg?
Sincerely, Bryz
[–]Asassinsneed 0 points1 point2 points 6 months ago
It says life form, but then it says bipedalism.
Should be human :p or bipedalism should be taken out
[–]olavharald02 0 points1 point2 points 6 months ago
I think the "large, highly developed brain" bit is a bit presumptuousness as this is coming from the the fracking universe.
[–]HaydenB 0 points1 point2 points 6 months ago
In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.
[–]oneangryrobot 0 points1 point2 points 6 months ago
I thought all the atoms that make us up already exist? I am just going to interpret this as a letter to the consciousness created by those atoms, as it is still awesome.
[–]pr1nt_r 0 points1 point2 points 6 months ago
I don't think that "#126GV29APZ23" is a proper GUID... and I don't even know what a GUID would have to look like for universal identification. I guess it would be a UUID (Universal Unique Identifier)
[–]Poohunter 0 points1 point2 points 5 months ago
I want that signature...
[–]trombodachi 0 points1 point2 points 5 months ago
creepy
[–]LegendofEva 0 points1 point2 points 5 months ago
This should be on r/trees
[–]dfc1987 0 points1 point2 points 5 months ago
The end made it.
[–]Reildo 0 points1 point2 points 5 months ago
Begin starting?
[–]Ragnalypse 0 points1 point2 points 5 months ago
That's not the milky way, this is perjury.
[–]kowell 0 points1 point2 points 5 months ago
The universe is always leaving us messages. http://dresdencodak.com/2009/07/12/fabulous-prizes/
[–]bmc5162 0 points1 point2 points 5 months ago
Simply wonderful.
I never asked for this, I want my money back!
[–]elmokazoo 0 points1 point2 points 6 months ago
This makes me want to re-watch Contact.
You mean re-read? Because Sagan's book has nothing to do with that movie.
[–]hodsonr 0 points1 point2 points 5 months ago
A little anthropocentric, don't you think?
[–]hettan123[S] -1 points0 points1 point 5 months ago
Very much so, But i sertainly do not think the author of this picture was making this from existing facts. He said "Spent my morning creating this after conceiving it in a dream.".
[–]flatlander5000 -1 points0 points1 point 6 months ago
Makes me feel sad. Just putting it out there that's all. ):
[–]Bartab 0 points1 point2 points 6 months ago
Is that some sort of "we're so small and insignificant!" response?
[–]fireorgan -1 points0 points1 point 6 months ago
i know, but an eternity with 72 virgins gets old fast too tho.
[–]cellbot -1 points0 points1 point 6 months ago
I loved that.
[–]Fullerer -1 points0 points1 point 6 months ago
The pedant in me forces me to point out that complex social networks are a product of highly developed brains. But apart from that, very nice.
[–]young_atheist_man -1 points0 points1 point 6 months ago
I like it.
[–]simjanes2k -1 points0 points1 point 6 months ago
So much awesome!
[–]centigrade100 -1 points0 points1 point 6 months ago
It's not arguing a soul/reincarnation by "Hoping to see you in another form". I'm taking it as a star-dust kind of thing.
[–]Lilbear187 -1 points0 points1 point 6 months ago
probably one of the coolest things i've ever read.
[–]YamoB -1 points0 points1 point 5 months ago
Awesome.
[–]PanicStil -1 points0 points1 point 5 months ago
Very cool.
[–]GrowingSoul -1 points0 points1 point 5 months ago
Very inspiring. It's good to be alive.
[–]NatalieMcK -1 points0 points1 point 5 months ago
Scumbag r/atheism: Endlessly ridicule people for believing in mystical bullshit. Endorse other mystical bullshit.
I'm pretty sure the author of this picture did not create this as a source of information. "Spent my morning creating this after conceiving it in a dream."
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When you meet bible thumpers on the street that try to hand you leaflets, you should hand them this.
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