Change of Mind: The Universe

Well actually it started when I noticed Mr. Glass' quote on the board about how we are just floating in space right now. That kind of thinking scares me a lot. Thinking about how we are so small and we are going to die and will just be buried underground is scary. That is one reason I dislike Sophie's World because topics like death, life after death and thinking that we only have 100 or less years to do things makes me almost hyperventilate and get freaked out. Death is my number one fear and to talk about it is hard because my hearts starts racing and I get worked up over it and have to slowly calm myself. But thinking at how we live from an outside perspective is a scary topic we do not know much about. For instance we do not know if we are the only universe, we are not certain how our universe began, we can not answer questions about live after death, we can only assume based on religious and scientific beliefs.

Now after having that quote on the board and these discussions in class about our uncertainty I am even more scared/ freaked out. First of all, being atheist, I do not believe there is a heaven or after life and even if there was your body is still in ground and you do not live a second life. Philosophy discusses questions about that and what we can not back up scientifically we use religion as the answer. My sister is the type of person that asks those kinds of questions, why is a color named that or why is this that way, she thinks and is fascinated by philosophical questions while the people around her just get annoyed with her asking stupid questions and not knowing the answers. As for me I am the complete opposite of her and fear that type of deep thinking about the universe and death and the end of the world.