Atoms to Adam Published on 8/13/14 7:21 PM

Most of my adult life has been spent trying to answer the question "What makes life worthwhile?" I think I have the answer?

Before we can answer "What makes life worthwhile?", we must briefly consider the root question: "What makes life?"
Biologically, it's metabolism, reproduction and homeostasis. But these are just the processes that permit life to be sustained. They don't really meaning to life. We can all agree that when

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Now no matter what side of the Origin debate you're on, there is one thing we can all agree on: The universe is a strange place. This was made more real to me when I spent the better part of an afternoon contemplating the cosmos thanks to this handy sliding Scale of the Universe. If talking about Planck lengths or Gigaparsecs doesn't move you, nothing will! Those who aren't into that sorta stuff just know that, things get sillier the bigger or smaller we are get.

I mentioned all that science stuff because from this initial question, "What makes life worthwhile?", we ca Very few, but special, people lose sleep over about

Why do we exist?

All of the knowledge and wisdom of the world

If you spend a few minutes considering the shear complexity of what's around us, you'll probably get a headache. After your brain stops exploding you'll notice that we live in a universe of extremes. From the tiniest theoretical one-dimensional strings that vibrate to make all possible dimensions, to the

we could argue about the different aspects within relationships like trust respect, care,
jackie robinson once said "a life is not inportant except by the impact is has on another"