Week 8- Assigned Reading- A Free Man's Worship

It is with science that is able to present us the world which allows us to create our beliefs. "That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave". Everything that Bertrand Russell says agree with. I think that Russell is trying to say that we are self learners and that we or our mind is what allows us to be so much different or unique from other people in the world. See there has to be a point of our existence not necessarily a God but there is something more than what we are doing now. There is something more than just the life cycle. It's as if we know to much but not enough. Because we are learning not so we can just take it to the Grave but we are learning because there is something more than just the Grave. What is cool is that no one can preserve a life past the grave, which means that we are our own worst enemies. Meaning that our purpose is to be able to find purpose for ourselves because not everyone is going to have the same purpose
because we all want different things out of life. This is what makes up our free mans worship that no one can take away.

"But the beauty of Tragedy does but make visible a quality which, in more or less obvious shapes, is present always and everywhere in life." When Russell says this it makes to much sense because someone has to get screwed its just a part of this world and life. I was unfortunately able to see this with one of my high school friends that I played baseball with. He was paralyzed in a car accident at the age of 19, doing nothing wrong just bad luck hit his car. But what baffles me that most is that, why do bad things happen to good people, but bad things don't happen to bad people. There has to be reason for that. I mean why does the drunk driver get to walk away while the sober passenger doesn't. Some things don't make a whole lot of sense and it is with passion that we want to search for these answers. Because around every corner there is something bad that can happen. There is a risk that we take everyday by waking up and going outside.