Discussion»Statements»Rosie's Corner» If you spend your days doing what you love to do, harming no one and pleasuring some does it matter what it is you do? Why?
In one way, perhaps not. In the end, the sun will burn out and all life on the planet will become extinct. In the life of the universe, not one human life will have made a difference.
In another way, yes. The more good we do, the less is the total sum of suffering - and every drop does make a difference to those around us.
This is a rare occasion bw. I shall have to take exception to something you said. "In the life of the universe not one human life will have made a difference". We can't KNOW that. All we can do is surmise opine imagine what comes next. Until you die how can you know if there is an "after"? We perceive life as 3-dimensional. We are limited in that regard. WHAT IF there are ten dimensions or 30 or six or seven? In those other dimensions are all the answers to all the questions we shall ever ask but we cannot access them. I am a fan of science fiction and quantum physics. There are no locked doors in my imaginings. I am open to many things other may think are foolish. There was a scifi book titled FLATLAND that was out of print when I found it in a used book store decades ago. It is about two-dimensional characters living in a 3-dimensional world and the illustrations depict what they could "see" of it. It is or was mind-bending. Just think about that. Perhaps the "ghosts" we see and the unexplained phenomena some experience are all due to our being limited in our ability to experience everything there is. Perhaps we are all pints and not quarts or gallons in terms of our cognitive abilities/capacities. I don't know but I do suppose. And this is not new. The cover of the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN magazine May 2003 issue reads ""Infinite Earths in Parallel Universes Really Exist". The article is 10 pages long and is about Level 1 through IV Multiverses. Also how do you explain Quantum Entanglement? Things being connected in some mysterious way that are bazillions of miles away from one another/each other? So that's why I shy away from thinking we homo saps are of little consequence. We don't know why we're here. We don't know what we are supposed to do with our lives. We muddle through as best we can and some of us make a difference. How do we know that difference isn't eternal and infinite? OK. So I just beat a dead horse. Apologies. Thank you for your reply bw! :)
This post was edited by RosieG at June 22, 2019 9:38 AM MDT
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