Has Science and Reason Taken Away Some of the "Mysticisim" of the world for you?

Don't get me wrong, I love science, I love logic, and facts. However, when I was a kid, I was enthralled with history and mythology. Mummies curses, witchcraft/wizardry, the Greek Pantheon, Norse Mythology etc. As a kid, into my early teens this stuff added "magic"and "mysticism" to the world for me. The world seemed exciting with so many supernatural possibilities. Enter science disproving all of it, and removing the "whimsy" from the world. Sort of like when a kid finds out Santa and the Easter Bunny aren't real. While I've found that science can be exciting in many ways (I was also always into science), it's not the same type of mystery and whimsy that something like the Greek Pantheon, Egyptian curses, and yes even Santa Claus brings. Now when I watch a movie like "The Mummy" my head just starts disproving it with science and facts I've learned. Bleh... anyone else experience this?

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BlueVeins · 22-25

I think it did for a little while, but honestly after learning a little bit about how things actually work, I feel even more mystified. Stuff like the Many Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, time dilation, entropy, and some of the weirder aspects of biology broadly is incredibly interesting and poetic and elegant to learn about in my opinion.

Probably one of the darkest examples is that all life on Earth evolved from unicellular organisms, whose sole goal and capability in existence is to take in nutrients and multiply. When life evolved to form bodies, our cells had to create systems to suppress this natural 'instinct.' But like all body systems, these can occasionally fail, which causes uncontrolled multiplication and the disease we know as cancer. Six hundred thousand people are killed every year because the mind of our most ancient ancestors has stayed with us all these hundreds of millions of years, and that keeps me up at night.

ShadowWolf · 31-35, M

@BlueVeins

Probably one of the darkest examples is that all life on Earth evolved from unicellular organisms, whose sole goal and capability in existence is to take in nutrients and multiply. When life evolved to form bodies, our cells had to create systems to suppress this natural 'instinct.' But like all body systems, these can occasionally fail, which causes uncontrolled multiplication and the disease we know as cancer. Six hundred thousand people are killed every year because the mind of our most ancient ancestors has stayed with us all these hundreds of millions of years, and that keeps me up at night.

OMG.... this is so true... and terrifying. It's like an evolutionary curse ;)

BlueVeins · 22-25

@ShadowWolf If you ever need some more real life cosmic horror, check out

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future

ShadowWolf · 31-35, M

@BlueVeins Yes.... I watched a documentary on that. It's probably the most depressing thing I've ever seen. The stars will die and the universe will get colder and darker. Towards the end, all that will be left are black holes and neutron stars. Then Proton decay, then nothing. Literally the end of time. True cosmic horror for sure.

BlueVeins · 22-25

@ShadowWolf Yeah, I generally believe that heat death won't happen because it's just such an absurd extrapolation of current trends, but ofc I think it's an important thing to explore and all.

ShadowWolf · 31-35, M

@BlueVeins It's good to keep an open mind, but I agree. A heat death is very unlikely. The only true heat in the universe comes from atomic energy (stars mostly), so as they die and supernovae heat fades, and white dwarves cool, it's only logical for the universe to cool in tandem.