Drawing a long horizontal line on an 8’+ wide blackboard, and marking a little dot in the center of it would be more accurate. To the left is life before you came here, the dot is your entire life, and to the right is your Eternity.
This is, of course, for those who believe there was “something” before we arrived on Earth and will be “something” after. For everyone else, our existence and Eternity are about the extent of conscious thought. There are those, however, who want to know where we came from, and why, and what, and ... and ... and....
And then there are those who feel there was nothing before us and there will be nothing after us. And my question to those folks is: Then, why are we here?
There answer is "There is no why."
I personally believe humans have everlasting life, but the only eternal life we have is God's life imparted to us. That is, I have a beginning, although I will have no end.
I have a few ideas about discussing the existence of "supernature" to naturalists, but it depends on why they are naturalists. As to whether or not there is a God, I think the most powerful visible testimony in these days is the modern State of Israel.
Plastic!
*Jumping in to the middle of a conversation*
Cogito ergo sum. I think therefore I am.
We are here because we are here.
It’s circular logic at it’s worst, but asking “why” we are here is a nonsensical question to begin with. Whether we were created and dump here or came about because of abiogenesis really doesn’t matter.
What matters is that we are here and what we do with it.
Personally, I believe in an after-life. Seems and awful waste of energy and information otherwise. The Universe doesn’t operate like that, from what we’ve seen so far.
*Jumping back out again*
:-)
Life is like a sewer,
what you get out of it depends entirely on what you put into it...
~ Hen3ry