I think blaze is forwarding many different, yet related, existential questions in his OP, of the sort that will never get a likely straight answer, such as: Why are we born?, Why do we die?, Do we really come from dust?, Do we really go back to dust?, Are we alone in the whole Universe?, Do aliens experiment on people, should there be any aliens?, Is life on Earth soon to end?, .... and the list goes ever on.
Unanswerable questions are quite many for one single thread, though I think many of them have been discussed before on this forum. However, I feel like sharing my few conclusions about the ones I mentioned, and here they go:
Why are we born?
'cause mom and dad figured it was a cool idea
Why do we die?
'cause living forever ain't such a good idea, sounds kinda boring
Do we really come from dust?
Dunno you, but if I did then my mom washed me quite immediately, 'cause I very well recall to smell really good as a baby
Do we really go back to dust?
If you fall on the beach you can bet you'll get quite dusty
Are we alone in the whole Universe?
Dunno you, but I can't afford much travel for myself. If you have better resources than mine, please go take a peep, come back and tell us. I'll be much grateful
Do the aliens experiment on people, should there be any aliens?
As far as I can remember they didn't get to me yet, but if they come with their ultraviolet beam scalpels, I'm gonna have my legs ready for kicking their very as*** (it may hopefully work)
Is life on Earth soon to end?
If it happens, you should soon realize, but if it happens in a moment when you're busy doing something more important than noticing your world falling apart, then I'll let you know
By the way, there's absolutely no sarcasm intended, let alone disrespect. I'm rather giving a touch of humor to subjects that have been long debated, all along our history as a species, many times indeed seriously, yet with no definite conclusions.
So why face questions with seriousness when we already know that seriousness never ever took us to a degree of full satisfaction, uh? So the questions will remain unanswered, very likely forever, just because probably the answer is the question itself.
On the contrary, we may keep debating seriously about these and other matters, while buying books written for the sole purpose of taking our money, rather than for lighting our dark paths. Either way we do it, we will never have a straight answer, and that's a fact. My humble two cents.