User:Rickey Damn Durham/sandbox

Think about your biggest accomplishment now, if your life ended today, what would anyone remember about you 100 years from now? And other than one maybe two of your great great grand children being curious, why would anyone care to remember? What are you going to do in your life to be remembered 100 years after you die? We only remember people because we were taught that history is important. Think about humans, you and I are not capable of getting to know or even remember the names of 1000 people, that's why people say that Facebook friends aren't really their friends, my parents asked how many of my Facebook I actually know. And out of well over 1000 people, I'd guess anywhere from one to two hundred, but I don't even actually know them, those are just people that I can put a name with a face to. Individual people don't matter because we are all classified under the time periods that we live and die in when we learn about any kind of history. That's all that you can know about anyone who lives way before us. Just when they were around, and what time period that was. I am African American and my great great grandparents were in America in 1800's, so my people in America were slaves, I don't know what they even did in life, and frankly even the best slaves aren't remembered. This is my own history and when I think about my family, my parents are older than most people's because I'm 19 and they're senior citizens, my grandparents are way older than them. So do you realize how little I know about my family, my own parents didn't really know their grandparents, much less their great grandparents. I would have to go all types of out of my way to even know the names of my great great grandparents siblings. They're still a part of my ever growing family but the reason that I wont spend years trying to find out is because it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter now, it wont matter anywhere in the future, it'll only matter to the people who truly believe that family history is important. History goes away 1492 years of history went away in America when Christopher Columbus came, but I still have to learn about American history And I learn that people were here, but American history starts at 1492. We haven't even been in America for 1492 years but when we do get around year 3000, why would anyone care about anything that the people born in the 1900's did? The human race will continue no matter how "big of a mark that you leave on society". If people like me who would like to become a dentist have to spend around 26 years of their lives just to try to get into the dentistry field, then only certain people can make an impact on that field. These are people who did well in high school, they have the money to do well in college (a lot of people don't even go to college just because of money) but even after college they have to get into dental school and do well there just to have a possible job as a dentist. And for me that'll take 8 years after my high school graduation, so I'll be at least 26 if and when I graduate dental school. So if I died at age 25, there would be nothing but a trail of debt left behind. I'd be a college kid who's life was cut short when he was so close to achieving his dreams of becoming a dentist. I'm not planning on having kids before I become a dentist, so my life wont even really be starting yet at 25. Who's going to remember me if I die at 25? Not my brothers or sisters because I don't have any. Not my cousins because they don't even really know me. All they know is that from what they see so far, I'm on the right path. Who will care enough to remember me? After all of the school that I went to, the government is only going to remember how much money I owe them. And people in the same position as me die every day. My entire African history was erased when my ancestors were pulled away from their families; their grandparents, parents brothers, sisters and cousins. Think about all of the people who got onto the ship from Africa to America just to become slaves. They'd probably be leaving a lot of their families just like you and I would if we were put on a ship and taken somewhere to become a slave today. Or if someone were to take over America and they try to wipe us out like Hitler did to Jews. Destroying then erasing our history and our future. People have been and still are doing this to people, and its still going on now in the world. There are still slaves, can you believe that? There is a genocide going on now, but no one in America cares enough to shut everything down and stop it like we did to the Nazis. Very few black people in America feel that they can even relate to what's going on in Africa. When people like me, who have slavery in their American family history, are probably related in some way to a lot of those people. I understand that some people want to know and trace their history, but my point is that it'll stay around for as long as they keep it around no doubt, but history can be changed. If 1,492 more years go by and a country takes over America and starts teaching children that American history starts in the year 3506. Then bam, there goes all of the history that you cared to learn about. So what? Who cares about being remembered anyways? But what are you working towards, why are you on this planet if you're just going to live, die and be forgotten? The Answer to Life isn't nothing, life has meaning but we just have to learn to work together. Whoever created the competition system amongst humans was smart, because it worked for this long. But they could've created the competition system from just watching animals. Animals compete with each other in the wild all of the time just as they have since the beginning of time. But animals die off, they go extinct. Only some of them have been able to survive for even this long (post dinosaurs). If we are capable of being so much smarter than animals, then lets show it. If we continue to make it impossible to become successful, no matter how smart you are its only possible for certain people to become doctors, lawyers and astronauts. Only people who are okay with more school, people who have the money to pay for school, or people who are allowed to attend college by their families are able to get certain jobs and become successful. If there are so many people with degrees who spent so much time and money on more school, why aren't they able to find a job, why cant they spend more time effecting their field than school? If I were to become a dentist after 26 years, I'd be 42 by the time that I was able to be in the field for as long as I had been planning and working towards it, and I'd probably only be working for a decade or so after that. Why did I spend almost 3 decades to have a shot at effecting the dental community? There are so many people who are born into poverty in America have resorted to gangs that will protect and financially support them. Many of these people don't even believe that they'll make it to 30, much less be in college going to school. So are their lives a waste? Their minds shouldn't and don't have to be, we should not let more people achieve their dreams instead of keeping the system greedy. Keeping it to where only certain people can make it to the top, when even after they get there, they'll have to keep competing to keep their position. Then after spending a few decades in their desired field they'll be replaced and forgotten shortly after they pass away. Science has advanced to the point that we can see so much more of our solar system. Enough of our solar system to know that Earth is not the only planet, in fact we have learned so much about our universe to understand exactly how small earth is. Earth is one of anywhere from 8 to 12 planets in our solar system, depending if you include dwarf planets. We have found that there are over 200 BILLION solar systems in just our galaxy The Milky Way. If there were just one other solar system, I'd have a hard time believing that there was no life anywhere in it. Especially when we haven't even gotten to another planet (assuming that life can only be found on planets) in our own solar system to prove that there is no life on them. But there are 200 BILLION other solar systems just in our galaxy, if there are 8 or more, planets in each solar system in our galaxy then there is no way that we can say that there is no life anywhere else in our universe. There is a planet 40 light years outside of our solar system called Gliese and this planet is 2.7 times bigger than Earth, it is also covered mostly in H2O. Assuming that all life needs H2O, there is a planet that we know of in our galaxy that has way more of it than we do. And there are 100 BILLION other galaxies with BILLIONS of solar systems in them, just in the observable universe. So why would living anywhere from the ages of 1 to 150 earth years take us to Heaven or Hell? 150 years on earth aren't even one year on Neptune (165 years), so after we die, do we spend all of eternity watching over one planet? Our entire lives happen in well under a Neptune year. Or is it possible to leave our solar system, or maybe even leave our galaxy? Why after only 19 earth years, would I go to heaven and not get to see any other part of the universe? If God made the universe, why am I only allowed to see one planet? Our point in living is to be happy, nothing more nothing less, we aren't going to visit other parts of the universe in our life time, and we wont know what will happen after we die. And there's no way to find out. But I will ask, are kids of atheist parents doomed because their parents told them that there is no God, heaven or hell from the time that they were very young? What if they aren't given enough time to go find God for themselves? What if they die in a car wreck at age of 17. Being wild up to that point sinning all throughout those 17 years, but they died just as they were beginning to turn their lives around. So would they be stuck in Earth hell, since they were "bad" for 17 earth years? We spend so much time getting over loses, when in reality, we don't have enough time to fear death or even take years to get over someone's passing. Imagine our world 2 Neptune years ago, over 300 years, and whatever organism that may be able to survive on the planet that is so far away is only two while we have had over 300 years of history under our belt. How much of an impact can you really leave in the universe? Humans claim to be the smartest species on the planet, and we are because we are the only ones who know that there is more than just Earth. But the fact that we have yet to grasp that concept proves that we are only capable of using a small portion of our brains.