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We as a species have a general vanity about ourselves, that we surely are something not just special but divine and magical compared to the meek creatures of the earth.

Couple this with promises of afterlife, immortality, favors, fortune and divine intervention with our actual lives and people who still secretly want Santa Claus to be real choose god.

We are the most advanced things on Earth’s surface for sure but we are creatures of Mother Nature like anything else alive. We won’t truly be extraordinary beings until we colonize the galaxy IMO. We’ll have to make reality the way we want it, make ourselves immortal biologically and/or digitally. We think we are so much better than other life but we still get sick with lowly viruses and parasites, we still choke on little gummy candies, slip and hit our heads on tables, what we want to be is not what these frail bodies are. Before science and tech the best we could do was literally pray and hope that there was something more to life than this, that a god would give us purpose and protection and endless life. People don’t wanna contemplate that we basically have to become the gods we want to be but have do it through technology rather than prayer. Technology is not a religion or god, it is humanity making what was naturally utterly impossible now possible