“People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”
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I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.