We have a really nice debate here. So, let me start by saying that I was born Christian but around the year 2006 I started asking myself questions about who I am, where I am, what am I doing here, etc. The trigger that made me search the Internet for answers was that thing with the year 2012 (yeah, it's non-sense). After that, my religion got fucked! Of course, I searched for answers but all I could find was that NewAge non-sense everywhere! One or two years later, I was actually believing in Mediums. I really thought there was something beyond, meta as they call it. Now I hardly believe one, because they are fake. There were some contests with rich people that would give 1 mil. $ if someone proved paranormal powers actually existed and stuff like that, but everybody failed. Rather than telling you how I got to modify my beliefs about everything, I will enlist them. My religion is now Unknown. It's a mixture of other religions, with a couple of my own thinking and feelings. I believe that there is no God as you may know him from the Bible or whatever religious pyramidal book you may know. Rather than thinking that he will save you, you should accept the fact that (assuming there is something beyond this dimension) they don't really care about you. You are to them as ants to humans. You are on your OWN. I didn't say there is no God. There may be some kind of entity, group or consciousness and that, in my opinion is The Universe (self created, self observing, self destroying). I also believe that there is a cycle in this large vast space (a balance). That means, for each action there is an opposite reaction -> Death (New life), Death of a star (birth of a new one), etc. No one knows what happens after you die. Probably you get reborn somewhere else, on a different planet, etc ... or you just fade away ( that would be stupid, although no one knows the rules of the Universe :/ ). There is a infinite number of possibilities. Why are we here? I think that we are here to learn more about what who we are. Maybe this planet is the "noob land", starting place or something like that. Who am I? I only know that (physically) I'm a machine. I am the result of Evolution or .. Intervention (from other beings, probably). Imagine you being squished into a 1000 pieces. What remains of your conciousness, then? It's like destroying the HDD / CPU / RAM of a computer. It doesn't start anymore! But wait, what if we are like computers? Well, not exactly, but you get the point. Each human is unique and not all computers are unique. By the way, what's biological life anyway? Cells are similar to nanites. The world is made up of atoms. The computer CPU is made up of .. transistors. Either it's brain cells or transistors, it's the same thing. If you don't have a brain or some working 'organ' with a memory, you can't exist here. Well, we aren't here for long, so we'll find out soon ( when you die, that is ).So, why now? Time is irrelevant. About aliens. I know they're out there! Image all those planets with life! Million years old civilizations! They are probably not even material since they've probably mastered time, space, and discovered how everything works! They're just hiding because we'd go INSANE if they show themselves or they have some master rules they won't step over. Right now you don't even know what to believe because highly skilled and powerful people are controlling us as we speak! When the times comes, you will search for answers in your feelings rather than the Internet. Well.. I can go on forever. Maybe some of you don't agree with what I said. That's alright .. The topic is interesting, maybe we can come up with common ideas and support each other! PS: Forgot to say that Religion is the worst thing that happened to Humankind. Why? Well, I believe Jesus or Buddha (whatever they were named) tried to show people the right way. Instead, we transformed their teaching into some sort of fanaticism, uncontrolled, abused. Different religions emerged. Gentlemen, I present you the number one cause for most of the wars fought! PS#2: If you want to quote the whole thing, please just say @Deluvas and don't make a Pyramid XD