Jesus saw something in humanity that I sure don’t. But still, you’ve just got to do the best you can.
I never really understood what they meant by “God’s sacrifice” at Easter time.
It was the line I used to get at Sunday School. “God loved us so much he was willing to sacrifice his only son for us.”
For me, I was like, yeah, but after Jesus died, he ascended in body and spirit back to heaven. He’s up there right now, having a bit of kick to kick with the old man.
So I didn’t really get the sacrifice. He didn’t give up his son. He just sent him to earth and made him suffer for a few days, before spending the rest of eternity together in heaven.
(This, and spitballs, is why I spent a lot of time sitting outside writing lines as a kid.)
But I’m willing to concede that my understanding of ‘sacrifice’ is very limited to a human perspective.
Jesus’s sacrifice though I got. He could have had anything he wanted. He could have been a king. He could have lived a life of fame and extreme comfort, travelling the land, performing miracles for the pretty ladies.
But he didn’t. Rather, he chose to walk with both eyes open into the intense suffering that was in store for him. He let himself be nailed to a cross, just to save a bunch of ignorant and ungrateful humans.
I often used to wonder about this. If Jesus’s own disciples didn’t really get what he was about (Judas, I’m looking at you) what hope did I have, with a culture, a language, and two-thousand years between us?
(And nothing but Ms Northcote’s puppets to help explain the mystery.)
I sometimes wonder if what Jesus really gave us was a seed – a seed that would sprout into transcendent wisdom, kindness and faith, if given enough time and care. Perhaps all it needed was three or four thousand years and then we would really understand what he was trying to lay down.
But at year zero, we were probably only marginally less ignorant than we are now, and perhaps only a smidgen less greedy and selfish.
And even though Jesus came head to head with the full weight of human stupidity and greed – even though he would have seen straight into the dark, ugly soul of humanity, he still chose to make the sacrifice he did.
What a champ.
I wonder how we looked through Jesus’s eyes. I imagine he could have easily just looked around and gone ‘yeah, nah. This lot are a lost cause. Better call in another biblical flush.’
But he didn’t. Seems there was something worth saving. Seems there was (and is) something that makes all this suffering and craziness worthwhile.
I wonder what that is.
God only knows.
My faith gets tested on a weekly basis. At some point somebody thought gassing a bunch of people in Syria would be a good idea – that it would serve a particular end. I’ve got no idea who to point fingers at, but it doesn’t really matter. It reflects badly on all of us.
We’re all made of the same selfish, ego-driven chemical programming. Born into another context, the hard-ware system that is Jon Giaan could have easily been a brutal tyrant, ready to leave the head’s of his enemies’ children impaled on stakes to make a point.
But thankfully, I had Ms Northcote’s puppets to teach me right from wrong.
… and to judge not lest you be judged.
Humans are always dancing along that shadow line. In the right setting – in a stable and prosperous, law-loving nation-state, we’re capable of great things – art, culture and just generally getting along with each other in a nice and neighbourly way.
But when things go wrong – when we’re plagued by wars, or the fake-news of wars – when we’re scared and hungry and desperate… and when generations have been subjected to these circumstances – when the last person to remember peace dies – then we are capable of incredible cruelty. Meticulous, calculating, sickening cruelty.
It is just who we are. Be thankful that you get to run the having-fun-and-contributing-to-society software sub-routine. And may you never have to install the tearing-out-your-enemies’-eyes sub-routine.
But despite how ugly it gets, theirs is still something beautiful going on here. There is still something worth saving.
And this is what Jesus saw. He laid down his life in the name of a vision of humanity that few have ever shared – if even anyone at all.
I know I don’t get it. My vision for heaven-on-earth mostly involves soccer and sea-food, and I doubt that’s what the Christ was about…
But still, I follow Jesus here. I’m with those who believe that there is something beautiful in the heart of humanity. There is something that makes this strange species worth saving…
… no matter how much evidence stacks up to the contrary.
So let me do my bit to be constantly bringing it out. Let me tend as best I can to the seed that Jesus planted. Let my work be puppet shows to the child-like soul of humanity.
It’s the least that I can do.
Happy Easter everyone.
Do you see anything here worth saving?
Thanks Jon for our timely and valid thoughts on the God’s sacrifice to enable us to be reconciled to Himself.
Unfortunately, its much to easy to be part of the crowd that cries out “crucify Him, crucify Him” than to take note of the claims God has on our lives, and the response that we can make if we listen to what He has on offer.
What happens when we reject God’s love and peace is clearly illustrated in the evidence we see throughout the world today. Wars (syria, South Sudan) and rumours of wars (USA V Nth Korea) are all prophesied.
The truths no doubt illustrated through Ms Northcotes puppets still ring true today. John 3:16 spells out the reason for God’s sacrifice “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life”.
Thankyou Jon for this gutsy and timely reminder
hi jonno,
i get really inspired by your insights. anything here worth saving? perhaps a few souls here and there. but if you were a bhuddist that wouldn’t be the case as it is the year 2560 in thailand right now. so their zero time was, transmuted, 555 b.c.. so its all a fabrication.
getting back to jesus of nazareth, who was the son, apparently of a very well-to-do family, was really an architect. mary magdalene was the grand daughter of cleopatra and marc antony, and was the heiress to not one, but two thrones; one egyptian and the other a nubian (black king) type one. when a pharoah died, another was selected by the queen, strange? yes, but true. so if mary magdelene had selected jesus as her pharoah, wow a new world altogether. but the (greek) scholars chose to sacrifice him and make him a son of god. jesus the christ(messiah) coined in 78 a.d. i wasn’t there and nor was anybody else who reads this stuff..but wait..maybe in a past life…..does the red light go on? it is super obvious that jesus’s coming was a ‘great event’. but how true?. archiologists and historians are found to be lacking in these ‘enlightened times’, we are just a smidgeon less barbaric than in ‘zero time’, but more devastating to more people.
our modern weaponry is vast and varied; designed to obliterate. i just read that the american civilisation survives on warmongering and that many nations rely on war to survive. does that mean that civilisation= war, or religion= war or even banking inspires war. i guess that makes any uncivilised peoples maybe un-warlike. many aboriginal tribes inhabited this wonderful country ..were they at war? remembering that war brings peace and peace brings war. have a ‘happy’ easter.
omg!! (my god not yours) i’ll watch the footy.
Happy Easter Jon
Surprised that I am the first to comment on your blog this week – perhaps those regular contributors to these articles are all off on their Easter sojourn and abandoning social media for the time being.
Nevertheless I enjoyed reading your interpretation of the Easter sacrifice and take note of your version of the afterlife – fortunately you publically acknowledge that their is one, unlike many of our brothers and sisters who proclaim that nothing exists “after this”!!
The true meaning of Easter has lost much of it’s significance over the years and is now threatened with complete abandonment in favour of an assorted array of other distractions in the name of assimilation. There was a time (not so long ago) when we united as one in our respect and admiration for a man who would lay down his life for another in order that those following may flourish, we set aside time to reflect and examine how our contribution to society could be enhanced and improved, how we like him may find an avenue through which we could make our own offering – sadly those days are gone.
I awoke this morning to the news that America had dropped the “mother of all bombs” on Syria a process no doubt ordered by “you know who” – this on Good Friday. The day when Christ laid down his life for all of mankind, how about that for timing? I think it was Tina Arena who sang of “we live in troubled times” – isn’t that appropriate right now?.
You did not mention in your article how you intend to spend your Easter Jon – reading between the lines I would like to think that a part of it is spent in reflection and gratitude for the culture that we have come to know and in thanks for our Christian way of life which teaches us – among many other things, how to love, how to nurture, how to parent and how to respect our fellow man. Don’t mean to “bible bash” but it is my belief that the massive changes which have befallen us during this lifetime have brought about the rapid loss of values we once held sacred – Easter is the time for restoration and as we are taught – Resurrection
I’d say the massive changes which have befallen us are due to a cycle in which govt. gets stronger and more invasive and more corrupt rather than losing values,
We are a lot less racist,
we are less inclined to bash poofters, Ezekial 16.49 “‘Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
We are less likely to let priests try for bum babies with the altar boys.
Ubiquitous phone cameras are holding corrupt cops to account.
Social media is exposing injustices,
A lot of things are on the up morally,
Unfortunately, the govt. is wrecking the economy, we’re too busy with bureaucracy to do work that others are prepared to pay for, so we get China to do our work, and send them our children’s future to pay for it,
You unfortunate individual – do you always miss the point or is this some form of planned obsolescence you use to gain attention – have a happy Easter mate and with luck you may find time to reflect just a little instead of trying to rationalise stupidity
with the number of possible points, you’ll need to clarify which one I’m missing.
Hi Simon,
Sounds like a real hard luck story! You lost your house because an arsonist picked yours from among the thousands of possibilities? And you weren’t insured? Or, like another guy I know, the insurance company says you did it? Sounds like a fascinating story. Do you have another site you can post it on (as I guess Jon wouldn’t appreciate it here)? Drop me a link in your reply.
when I grew up in the country in kiwi land, I didn’t know any drug addicts,
I had this guy who used to stay with me on his way thru melbourne who’d been thru church rehab, I thought rehab fixed people, he had all of these seedy people who used to visit him, one of them asked me how long I’d been friends with him, I said I wouldn’t really say we were friends, because he was a fairly antisocial character, but I was happy to give him or anyone else a place to stay, that night place goes up, not insured because too much solvent on site, tons of fiberglass moulds, 20 motorbikes melted, I didn’t find out who’d done it for a couple of years, last I heard the guy was in jail for kidnap and attempted murder.
Govt only helps people in a TV fire, no publicity no help.
Hi again Simon,
Thanks for the reply. Jon deleted my longer post about Easter, the Bible and so on, so he may delete this too… He allows (ridiculous) allegations that Jesus was the (illegitimate) son of a rapist, but my moderate response to that was too much for him, apparently.
Anyway, FWIW, are you stuck in Oz? Being a Kiwi, maybe you’d be better back home? I think everything is easier here. Oz is a hard land… Can you get yourself back here? Sounds like you have skills, just need to get back on your feet. A fresh start might be the answer?
The pharisees of Christ’s day only professed belief to make judaism look bad,
are today’s churchies any better? When an arsonist surrounded my house with fire at 2 in the morning, I got out with just a pair of shorts, massively in debt. one of the reason’s the local salvos couldn’t even give me a shirt in winter was because it was easter time, they were busy being religious.
The other reason was that I could have forged the paper from the fire dept. and rolled in soot to try to get a free $2 shirt.
When you go to church, you fulfill that part of yourself that needs to be a good citizen, and get rid of that nasty feeling, you donate your discretionary dollar, you gave at the office and fulfilled your debt to mankind.
Thank you for your beautiful Easter message Jon! Easter is a special time, one for reflection & realignment to what’s important in life. May God bless you over the Easter break! Keep up the great work! I love reading your perspective on the market!
Regards,
Chris
Happy resurrection mythology day.
All evidence points to “this” being all there is. There is no objective, verifiable evidence for any afterlife or external creator or “saviour” of any kind. And certainly no objective, verifiable evidence for any person having risen from the dead. There certainly is a long of history of humans creating stories about deities, half-deities and humans resurrecting or rising to heavens. All before the Christian mythology came along.
We are, the only intelligent life we know of floating on an insignificant mote of dust in a vast ocean of inhospitable nothingness.
The only thing to save is ourselves. And the only ones to do it are us.
Humanity needs to grow up and realise that this is the main and only game in town. Any belief in an unproven afterlife or external benevolent creator simply dilutes the sole responsibility we have for the continuation for our own existence.
Agnostic Atheism is the only rational position of a truly free and enquiring mind. With no afterlife, available, humans have EVERYTHING to live for. Time to truly embrace it.
We all need to grow up and think adult thoughts with adult reasoning,
Do you realize how hard it would be for all of humanities resources to make something that could duplicate itself, other than swapping subgroups on existing life forms, and never mind defending itself, the most basic unit of life.
Saying that lightening can make amino acids is like saying we’ve found sand, so are expecting to find a new version of ipad if we dig down a bit.
I takes as much faith to forbid God to exist and to assume that a few trillion years will do by chance what all of humanities intelligence has no chance of doing, as to believe in some sort of God, at least you used the word agnostic.
Great article Jon. Your agnostic readers seem not to know that leading scientists (Sir Fred Hoyle, Dr Paul Davies, Dr Dean Kenyon) and Oxford’s notorious atheist professor of philosophy (Prof Anthony Flew) have all accepted that discoveries in information science now allow a valid SCIENTIFIC inference that life was intelligently designed. While science has no facts on the nature of the designer, it is now clear that there was an intelligent designer.
Before He came to earth as a man, Jesus was the mighty eternal Spirit being: God the Son. All things were created IN Him. So when He died all things were de-created in Him and we He was resurrected all things (including each one of us) were re-created IN Him.
This is why the resurrection is, as you say, our chance to play our part in repairing this self-absorbed world by becoming more like Him. God has dealt with sin and by drawing on His power, we now have our chance to make the world a better place (starting with ourselves).
Jesus’ resurrection is the most important event since creation. When are eyes are opened to its impact on us as an individual, we can choose to believe Him and move into abundant life here on earth, or we can ignore what He did for us and carry on wrecking the world with our “bright” ideas.
Nonsense. There is absolutely no consensus in the scientific community, or philosophical one that there was an intelligent designer.
Just because you cannot imagine that something can come from nothing, doesn’t mean it’s not possible.
Show us your proof for God’s existence and we must apply the same proof to the existence of Eric The God Eating Magic Penguin. Eric, by definition, eats all God’s. Therefore your God cannot exist.
Prove to us Eric does not exist and we must apply the same proof to your God.
Very good points. I’m not an atheist, I believe in God, only I know who created him. Man!! as a means of explaining things that he couldn’t. example: thunder and lighting. Ancient man couldn’t explain ‘rising currents of air creating static electricity’ nor could they explain the rainbow. So, they created GOD. It worked for ignorant people, but with todays knowledge…how can they stay ignorant.
Bill
Happy Easter Jon. Anything here worth saving? I rather think you are right: ‘But despite how ugly it gets, theirs is still something beautiful going on here. There is still something worth saving.’
geoff..you are wrong i was first! anyway in the next edition i am gonna tell you about flu and money. flu? and money? how do they figure together? well its a very much world wide problem coming up. muslims and asians are almost immune but us poor caucasians are gonna almost be wiped out! ‘god’ help us!
Hi Jon,
A couple of points, I say this tongue in cheek. I thought you were an intelligent man.
1) Heaven, hell and paradise are only MARKETING TOOLS. In fact there has never been a better set of marketing tools.
They are not real. They are a MYTH…
2) The reason that Jesus died!! Do a little test for us all..
Go down the street and tell everyone that you meet that you are the SON OF GOD… Gauge the reaction of the people and the AUTHORITIES.. Jesus is said to have said that he was the son of GOD.
Next little test.
Go down to the ATO and tip over their tables, do the same at the local council chambers and the police station… Then, come back to us and tell us which test is likely to get you in trouble with the law and which one is likely to get you CRUCIFIED.
3) Roman history has a very well documented trail about the real father of Jesus. He was a Roman soldier by the name of Tiberius Iulius Abdes Panthera. he raped Mary when she was 11 years old.
4) Cornelius a Roman Emperor, told the Rabble rousing christians ‘ go down there to that piece of land and stay there and we’ll stop feeding you to the lions’. They did and that piece of land became
Vatican City..
5) Vatican City is where any piece of writing can and has been changed to suit their own needs.
6) Mary was only decreed a “virgin” in 1852 by Pope Constance…
Are you starting to smell a rat…
Bill
Standard conspiracy theory stuff, false facts and straw man arguments, whether it’s true or false, the old testament is a prophecy about Christ, from the first recorded passages, Gen 3.15 ‘the seed of a woman’
Hi Bill,
I know I’m late to the party, but BLTN, I guess.
I’m with you on your perspective that it was a great marketing exercise! “God” is obviously far from infallible, didn’t entirely know what he was creating and had to re-start the experiment a couple of times at least, wiping out to a greater or lesser extent the Mk I and Mk II versions. For a start, obviously, the original 1,000-odd-year life span was waaay too long and had to be cut substantially short. Even “God” couldn’t wait forever for his results. Just look at the relative longevity to maturity ratio for all the other animals and you’ll see how badly short-changed we “humans” have been.
However, I think you have missed something much bigger. If you look deep into the Bible, you’ll see a lot of clues, but if you look outside the box at all the other religions and different ethnic groups, you may notice the hint of a common thread. I look at them as different (parallel) runs of the same basic experiment. The 12 “Tribes” of Israel? Of course, the Bible states that the Jews were “God’s” ‘chosen people’, but if you look at what the Bible says about other peoples and nations, you might start to get the picture that there was some kind of contest being run. Apparently, “God”, like so many human contestants, has tried to make out that his experimental version is superior to the other guys’ “messes”. Obviously, he had a particular resentment towards that Satan bloke and his group… Not sure which one that is supposed to be, but maybe it’s the Asians, just looking at the way history has played out. They seem like a pretty advanced group, so of course you would want to paint them black. The Great Wall of China illustrates the intelligence of their approach to the problem of invading hordes of intellectual & social inferiors. Just keep them out, while we get on with what we are doing.
All the same, from my point of view, it would be extremely difficult to say that any one group is markedly better than any other. It all depends on what you value, and what you don’t.
As for Jesus, I think you REALLY missed the point there, Bill. Whatever your historical records say, Jesus was much more than the random son of a rapist paedophile. (Think IVF…) His wisdom is far beyond most of us, even today. We still don’t know for sure, even with the power of hindsight, half of what his riddles actually meant. The amazing Bible manages to convey quite succinctly many of the great mysteries that surround Jesus Christ.
I do truly believe that the role of Jesus here on Earth was to try to teach us how to live together without continually slaughtering each other (as we are obviously intent on doing now, and as is in our true, defective nature to do.) You see, the experiment(s) has/have a very real purpose. The instructions in the Bible are very clear. Go Forth and Multiply, and Take Dominion over the Planet. That isn’t going to work out like the experiments are meant to, if we have annihilated ourselves, or at least, keep eliminating great chunks of our gene pool and reducing our numbers back down to touch-and-go survival levels every few hundred years.
So, creating these notions of Heaven, Hell, Resurrection or Eternal Damnation and all the rest of it were part of the strategy to try to get us to live together in relative peace. And it has sort-of worked, for maybe a couple of thousand years. (Where would be be, if it had never happened?) But if you analyse the Bible, you’ll probably notice how self-contradictory much of it is (Old Version and New Version) – more evidence of the fallibility of “God”. Actually, that is probably more easily explained in terms a series of of “Mission Commanders”, each with their own different ideas, or maybe a complete revision of strategy for us around the BC/AD mark, but maybe you can’t swallow that one!?
Anyway, I believe that if you look at it in the right way, the whole story makes a HUGE amount of sense. There is a purpose, a beginning, a middle, a desired outcome…
The Ark of the Covenant? What is a Covenant? Between whom? About what? Marked/Signed/Guaranteed by what? And promising what?
Now, look at Jesus’ sacrifice and tell me it’s JUST Marketing, just spin, just a myth.
I don’t think so, and I think we do well to remember that at least once a year!
We are all but specs of microscopic particles in the big scheme of things. For one person to claim they know what they are talking about wether it be religion or God, or to believe there is or isn’t either of those things, is kidding themselves.
I’m actually all for having faith in something, whether it’s God or a belief of some sort. And if someone has that belief in something then we should let them be without judging. The problem comes when one person has a belief that is not the same as another’s and one person (or religious group ) tries to enforce their belief or ways upon another.
I also believe there are good and bad within each religious group but the overall message I think (for most religions) is peace and love, treating each other with respect and kindness and generally trying to be better people towards the whole human race. I believe we all have this faith/belief/desire, whatever you want to call it, inside us, even if in some it’s deep deep inside and rarely shows itself, it’s still in there.
I believe the reason there are so many good people in the world today, even if they are non believers, is because their parents or maybe their grandparents, or even great grandparents were taught love, kindness, respect and all the other things religion teaches that we all want for the world today.
One way I look at religion is it’s a set of rules to live by, governed by something greater than all of us and without rules or laws we all turn into barbaric cave men.
We as humans are better people with a faith or belief in something that is good and if not for the little nudges from God to put us back on the right track where would we be?
Just my opinion and belief.
Happy Easter!
Happy Easter Jon!
Appreciate the honestly and insight!
Here’s something to add to your thoughts — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVuq02QGvK0&list=PLB98A3D1F5038F1CA&index=8
thank you for sharing Esther; just today (Easter Sunday!) I got an insight that my ‘journey/purpose’ is to be more visible – so, a standing stone perhaps…..interesting! I am coming at this from a non-religious viewpoint, but the end-effect is the same…interconnectedness and share your love.
Jon, good post. I grew up a Catholic, church every Sunday, was taught the bible stories at school. I have a belief in Jesus and an after existence. More recently I have read other stories about what was the purpose of Jesus, about the Essenes of Nazareth…Well I do believe he came down to ‘save us’. The human race has many imperfections, many can’t see past their own ‘ego’, I think he was a genetically better version of us born into this world to bring a purer blood line to humanity. A more ‘godlike’ bloodline. I believe he did this and Mary Magdeliene was the mother of the first in this line. With the bloodline and his teachings we, the human race were saved from extinction through another form of mass wipe out like the Flood of Noah. How have we done? Well some people are amazing caring and compassionate most of the time, others are the opposite. There is both dark and light in this world and everyday you have the opportunity to grow and/ or teach.
Happy Easter. Enjoy the journey, as I see it, the journey is your purpose.. Remember who you are and your connection to everything and try not to go crazy in this human world. xx
Hitler thinks the same, we need to cleanse the ugly and less intelligent ones, and let the master dicks save us.
Great article Jon,
I especially liked the soccer and seafood part … can I come too ?
I find some of your articles create great discussion amongst your followers and others open a pandora’s box to an ugly world.
I read somewhere that if a man doesn’t believe in something … he’ll believe anything. That scared me back then.
I don’t know what to believe in anymore … have read widely in science, philosophy and various religions. I would like to think that all religions share a basic belief to ‘love your fellow’ man … otherwise how do you sell the concept of a religion at all?
I don’t know if there is seafood and soccer awaiting us or a crossroads where we get to choose whether we become a cow in india or a white girl born into a mega-wealthy businessman’s family or a black man struggling to survive in Uganda in the year 2215 while other whites are taking weekend holidays to mars and back.
I don’t know if there is a 15 page test awaiting me at the pearly gates requiring me to answer questions about my life (I was never good at tests).
I DO know that how I speak and how I interact with my fellow man creates a moment or two of how they feel about me and about their own life. I like to do good and make people feel good. I teach my children to try ‘do good’ wherever they go. If there is a god and he sees that we are doing good …. fantastic. If there isn’t a god … I still feel good that I’ve made the world a tiny bit better that day. It helps me sleep at night.
I read somewhere else that doing bad things to others makes you feel bad and in turn causes nasty things like cancer and other ailments inside our own bodies. That scared me too.
Another school of thought is that God is inside all of us (known as ‘conscience’) and we know when we have done good or bad and intuitively know what is the right thing to do in every situation we find ourselves in this life. Whether we choose to do good is … our choice. Whether we get upset with someone and decide to drop a bomb on them is also …. our choice. I keep getting screwed over in business and no matter how detailed a contract is (marriage, business or other) I believe if someone wants to screw you they will find a way to screw you…. such is life. I can’t change others but I keep finding the strenght from somewhere to ‘resurrect’ my spirit and rebuild my life. Perhaps this is the lesson for me … perhaps you are right and our easter was meant to be a few days of reflection and rejuvination and resurrection of our spirit and then go back out into the world and do good.
I don’t go to church much anymore but I love the beauty of nature and enjoy the serenity of diving down into our oceans and watching nature at its finest go by …. no shark nor fish nor coral nor anything has ever hurt me down there. I try to live that way on land.
Blessings to all of you.
“Do you see anything here worth saving?”
Yes, I do. Most of us look at the declining numbers of animals and the extinction of species with great dismay. As we well should, when we are the cause. Yes, they are worth saving.
However, should we forget that we, ourselves, despite our multiple failings, are in fact the most evolved, complex, amazing and awesome life-form on this planet? Intelligent, adaptable, omnivorous… We are the result of maybe a billion or more years of evolution. We may be violent and destructive, but we are still the best that nature has managed to produce so far, around here.
When you think about all the immense pain and suffering that has gone before, by all the less evolved forms of life from which we developed, that battled and struggled to survive against greater odds with so much less adapted bodies, and survived in spite of it, wouldn’t it be the greatest sin of all time to say “Nah, not worth saving!” and just blow it all away? Wouldn’t that be the greatest insult imaginable, to all our ancestors, human and animal, not to mention so many soldiers who gave their lives fighting to that we could live these easy, advanced lives? Able to look up at the stars and wonder what’s out there. To appreciate the beauty of a flower or a sunset.
Imagine the difficulties early ape men must have suffered, trying to walk upright in bodies that had no yet adapted to it. Hell, just imagine the amount of back pain THEY must have suffered.
Yes, we are definitely worth saving. Otherwise, what is the point, the purpose of it all?