Everything is an accident

The very fact that we humans are here with this consciousness, is an accident. If the dinosaurs hadn’t been wiped out, the mammals, who were very small and had no room to expand their domain, would never have evolved into large mammals and into human beings and into human consciousness. They would’ve remained the size of ferrets. Well the fact that something, whether it was and asteroid, or Darwinism, or whatever it is that set it along, that blocked out the sun long enough to kill off the dinosaurs, made room for us. That’s an accident, that’s a joke. People take that seriously, people think God did that. People say, “We’re destined to do things.” People say, “We have rights.” There is no s...

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