TheNewGuy03
Is it wrong for me to think that way?
Is it wrong to think that being in a universe wuthout purpose is wrong? Not at all.To wish that you were dead because the universe does not find you of any consequence is pointless not wrong since that is the wish of the ego to impose demands upon what it wrongly percieves to be an unfair situation.
How would you feel if you realized that you're living just to die?
I have ralized that I am going to die but I am by no means
living just to die
For me the journey has been in many ways hard though my early years were the finest one could ask for.I suppose I have been fortunate enough to have witnessed such incredible vistas and events in my wanderings as to be satiated.I have always been enamoured by the night sky the stars and planets the aurora.I wish there wre some means of diectly planting the sights sounds taste smell and touch of these things I have been privy to into others heads.
I also had the great good fortune to live in Banff Alberta for 2 years including the Calgary Olympics.I took every trail I could and even made a few of my own while living there and I got a glimpse of nature without the alteration of men and I cannot put into words the majesty and the wildness that life there has.It has no equal in my life as far as wonder and awe of the connectedness of it all.
Why are you there in the first place?
I do not think that the question is a valid one because it presupposes that there is a why.
You may not realize this, but I'm not the only one who makes that statement. Go ahead and make a sarcastic comment
It is not my intent to use sarcasm on such an issue. It is a hard life lesson the parenthesis of mortality and it requires an adjustment of one's persoanl space to realize that time is short and there is not enough in anyone's plate to squander it.It also requires you to come to the realization that everyone shares in the common bond of death yet,what is more important is that they share in the common bond of life though only briefly.
I'm saying this to say that life does have purpose, which many do not believe
I do not think life
has purpose.I am of the impression that we
give purpose to life. By dint of our intelligence and nature we carve out the purpose that suits our tastes and times.We wage war for gods,we aid humanitarian efforts in natural and man made catastrophe.We write music and sing build instruments to play songs that touch us.We hunt ,we fish ,we ski, dance tell lies and jokes laugh cry and raise famililes.
I was once a hardcore evolutionist myself. I'm not believing something for the sake of believing it
Evolution does not require beliefs.The evidence fits the model of evolution.One should not believe something for the sake of belief,that is mindless.There is far greater evidence of the immense pointlessness {by human perception of course} of the world than found in the theory of evolution.Physics paints far greater strictures on the possibilities of the cosmos and they are far better understood.
But that is the reasoning behind my thoughts. Hate it if you want to. But few recognize truth when there are many lies to believe
I would not hate it.I am puzzled by the seeming hopelessness that you impart to a purposeless world.
This message has been edited by sidelined, Sun, 2005-05-01 01:46 AM
And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself,
that of yourself which you yet know not of
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