For a growing society that seems to be driving away from all forms of religion, God, ghosts and supernatural elements themselves, it’s honestly pretty amazing to see how humans are taking (to what seems) a life without ultimate meaning so well.
From my perspective, it seems that our society dwells so much on the significance of this temporary life that anything not located within this time frame does not matter. As if the previous 14 billion years and the 20 billion years to come on the universal timeline are somehow forgotten compared to our mighty slot of time that humans have had.
The people in our society work so hard and diligently at their individual lives — to make money, be famous, get married, create a family, find purpose, help the needy and live by a supreme law and code. The society that we live in is amazing; they are able to find purpose and meaning in an ultimately purposeless and meaningless universe — it’s far-fetched really.
What do I mean? Well, for starters, we all will die one day. That’s just a basic fact of life that humans live by. We are born, and then we die. What is the point of doing something worth anything if we all will die one day?
Someone might respond with saying that they can aid the helpless and that their name will live on through the next generation. Great, but what happens when those people are also dead, and the generation after them, and the one after them? If everyone eventually dies, what does it matter for how we treat one another? If I cause a mass murder, and someone else provides food and water for a poor village in Africa, who lived the better life? Since the provider and I both end up in the grave one day, did our actions on earth really make any difference for our ultimate destination, death?
Of course, the village will be grateful for their clean water and greater source of food, but they too will die one day, whether or not they got the water or food. If death is the termination of life for humans, you and I, then nothing really matters in the long run. Whether I save people or kill people, the way a person spends their life on earth doesn’t matter, the final destination will stay the same.
This depressing idea is what society and the media are hiding from the world. If they focused on this topic, then the topic of the supernatural would have to be brought up as well, but our society is only comfortable with talking about the present and temporary pleasure… it's fake meaning and purpose.
Even if this isn’t enough to convince you that life really is meaningless and pointless without the supernatural, consider the fact that the earth will not even be in existence in about five billion years. If humanity (with an unconceivably small chance) is able to survive the many possible apocalyptic scenarios (asteroids, radiation/nuclear destruction, plagues, solar flares, other forms of natural disasters) then in five billion years the sun will turn into a supernova and engulf earth in a monstrous ball of burning gas. The entire planet, and more than that, all life on earth will be as if it never existed. All records of life and the history of everything on earth will be gone (aside from the spacecraft’s that fly endlessly through space).
The other possible scenario is that the sun turns into a supernova and the resulting push-like motion will send the earth flying away from the sun. Whatever the outcome, the earth either burns until it's nothing or freezes where life is inhabitable. Life ends both ways.
Humans will die, and so will our home planet one day. Nothing that humans could ever do — no matter how hard we try and save the earth from pollution and natural disasters — will save the earth from its ultimate fate. The question of why humans do anything of worth and try to do anything of worth to save the earth now ends with a pointless answer — everything is going to be gone anyways. Humans can be nicer, kinder, and take care of the earth so it might last longer — but whether we act on good or evil, the termination of humans and the earth will inevitability occur.
Although someone else might propose the idea that humans have a high chance of leaving the earth and finding a new home within next five billion years. Though it’s slim, science is searching for other earth-like planets and has detected a candidate that may be habitual for life. Kepler 186 is about the right size and distance away from the sun, unfortunately, it is about 500 light years away from earth… and so even going at the speed of light it would still take 500 years to arrive. (I would dare say that it will be forever impossible for humans to ever travel anywhere close to the speed of light. But of course with the slim chance (there’s like no chance) of avoiding all disasters that would end life, five billion years is a long time for technological advancement!) At the speed of what science has been able to accomplish now, it would take nearly 9 million years going 39,000 mph to reach Kepler 186. Needless to say, it’s an astronomically small chance of all this happening. Not impossible… but pretty much impossible if you know what I mean.
Even if humans are able to leave earth and find a new planet (or possibly live in a spacecraft), then we still face the ultimate end of the universe. Scientists estimate that within the next 20 or so billion years, the universe has a high chance of termination as well. Theories are being developed about how the universes might die, and there are three that are the best looked upon. The first theory is called the Big Rip.
The Big Rip explains that the universe will continue to expand at a rate which makes the universe’s density less than the critical density. This will result in galaxies, stars, planets and atoms to literally rip apart. The universe will become fatally unstable and will be the end of everything.
The Big Freeze is the second theory and it explains that the universe will continue to expand but will eventually lose its “gas.” The universe will slow down as stars and everything inside the universe begin to fade away. All the light sources will lose fuel and stop emitting heat until they die. Without stars, the universe will slowly grow dark and cold until the universe has a temperature of absolute zero, or -459.67F. Life is not possible in these conditions thus rendering the universe in utter darkness with absolute lack of heat. The universe would reach a state of entropy.
The Big Crunch is the third theory and it explains that the universe might end by collapsing in on itself. The universe is expanding, but as it expands the gravity at its epicenter also grows stronger. As matter increases while the universe expands, gravity creates a tighter pull within the universe thus creating a tension and ultimately pulling the universe back in on itself. Nothing survives this catastrophic and epic conclusion.
There is no point to life or anything for that matter if there is no supernatural element. Even if someone tried to argue the possibility of another Big Bang resulting from the Big Crunch, in which non-living matter could create living matter thus humans possibly evolving again to the people we are now — even if all of this could happen with prodigiously, colossal-like low odds, then humans still have to face the reality of their own personal death.
Society lives in a state where they ignore talking about the supernatural while focusing on the present pleasure and natural realm. Life is hugely depressing without meaning, but because our society manages to continue on and live happily, I believe that the people within our society are subconsciously believing in the supernatural.
They believe in the possibility of a supernatural realm where a heaven-place exist to which humans go to after death. They believe in the possibility of a creator, God, but they just aren’t too sure about it and science doesn’t approve of it (just like how science didn’t approve and ignored the idea of the human conscience for hundreds of years because it can’t be felt, smelled, seen, tasted, or heard…but it’s there).
Being that there isn’t a point to life without the supernatural, but most probably would admit to at least subconsciously believing in it, I would argue that our society should take the time to bring the light into the supernatural realm (anything not natural) and be prepared for it. It’s the least our society can do after robbing its people of meaning by advocating a life without the supernatural and replacing it with a fake purpose.
My personal opinion: I would encourage a person to look into Christ. Although this is for a later message, the evidence for Jesus and his resurrection is actually concrete and worth the look. After all, it isn’t hard for the supernatural to defy the odds of the natural realm — it created it!
