Brothers and Sisters of the Future

Why?
Epicurus taught us that there is no god, no divine creator and punisher and that we should live to maximise our own happiness. Perhaps this is an overly simplistic view of reality, but without God how did we get here? Too subjective? Well how did the earth get here? Likely a cosmic ballet of maelstrom and violence. Molten rock, explosions, vacuums and black holes the probability of all of this creating a planet and a star at a healthy distance apart with appropriate amounts of water are so farfetched that one could say you are crazy for believing in chance. Yet by that same argument there are billions of galaxies out there each with billions of stars and so in our game of chance with minuscule odds, winning at least once becomes certainty.

You. One thing that you can be certain about is back to the first bacteria that formed from simple proteins in a primordial soup from when the world first cooled, or back to Adam should you be a creationist, every single one of your ancestors survived to breeding age and produced at least a single child which in turn found a suitable partner and they once again bred. This seems so extraordinarily improbable that the fact that you are standing before me is a statisticians very nightmare and the reason people gamble on lotto every week. People win, we all won in some strange breeding lottery.

So you are special. You are a miraculous lotto that by all mathematical likelihood is improbably and yet here we are. 6 billion of us are sharing this tiny ball floating through the absolute inhospitable, our Noah's ark. We are survivors.
So you miraculous and inevitable being of fate or probability, which is it? An impertinent question to ask any believer and yet it is this single question that has caused more premature deaths than any other in our history. Surely with enough food, water, shelter and clothing we should be happy with our lot and not seek to take another’s?
That is the Why. This blog is my little vent on the world about the things that I see that I believe prevent happiness without giving reward.