/sci/ - Science & Math

Hey /sci/, yesterday I was talking to a friend of my gf's and out of the blue she hit me with something along the lines of "Well that's real fine but anyway you atheists can't stop being pessimistic assholes who can't enjoy anything."

Since we were just talking about books and video games I was obviously confused and wondered where that'd come from and asked her what she meant by that, to which she replied "Well you don't think there's any meaning or reason for us to be here, so you can't actually be passionate about things the same way we are."

And I was all like... "But that's really wrong, we don't need a purpose in the same way you seemingly do, we (or at least I) don't need a purpose in the same way you do; we can simply find our own and decide instead of accepting what "higher forces" give us.
And honestly if you think about it, we're all made of the same building blocks as everything else. The human body is made out of the same atoms the sun is, only different in kind and numbers; and don't forget a huge part of our bodies is just water.
In fact I suppose that if you wanted to find a "greater purpose" for our existance without summoning magical entities, you could just say we're the way the universe has to explore itself, to know itself."

Sorry for the wall of text, the thing is she shut up, so it did work on her, but I'd never really quite thought about this whole thing. It seems correct to me though, could we say we're one of the ways the cosmos has to learn about itself?

Is there any way to completely negate my natural urges to sex and socializing?

I find it hard to put myself fully into science with primitive urges distracting me. I find it extremely annoying that I can't go 12 hours without human interaction without having an irresistible urge to talk to someone.