Perhaps with that bleak and inevitable scenario we'd be all much better off by shooting ourselves now. Somehow, there seems to be something intrinsic to life t

Perhaps with that bleak and inevitable scenario we'd be all much better off by shooting ourselves now. Somehow, there seems to be something intrinsic to life that prevents that from happening. Whether that's a good or bad thing has been endlessly pondered over since the beginning of human cognition—thus the dogged persistence of religion which offers a way out of that depressing inevitability.