fromderinside
Mazzie Daius
- Joined
- Oct 6, 2008
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- Basic Beliefs
- optimist
I still think life is the successful play of a game where the winners are better at conserving energy loss than are the losers. When a person dies or becomes afflicted by disease, that person loses.
For life to be absurd one would have to demonstrate that those things beings which dominate what exists today are without some redeeming feature.
Everything in the universe can be viewed corresponding to this paradigm. Atoms are better than whatever else they replaced, Hydrogen still prevails among elements at the most abundant, Suns are better at conserving than are voids where matter is involved, etc. Those that are most stable, longest lasting are seen to have reached optimums at stabilizing energy losses better than what came before and what they beat out as holders of that mantle.
So it goes for societies, groups, organizations, nations, etc. All are there because they are best at doing what they do against competition. How can anything so pervasive, so ubiquitous as the universe be anything other than meaningful?
What each of us do and value as players is up to us and to whatever forces drive us. The evidence is in. We're meaningful right down to the existence of the last bit of energy whenever.
Finally what a person values can be measured the same way. If what you believe inevitably leads you to death more rapidly than others who believe differently, who hold different values, have different aspirations, .....is/are less meaningful than those who survive longer.
For life to be absurd one would have to demonstrate that those things beings which dominate what exists today are without some redeeming feature.
Everything in the universe can be viewed corresponding to this paradigm. Atoms are better than whatever else they replaced, Hydrogen still prevails among elements at the most abundant, Suns are better at conserving than are voids where matter is involved, etc. Those that are most stable, longest lasting are seen to have reached optimums at stabilizing energy losses better than what came before and what they beat out as holders of that mantle.
So it goes for societies, groups, organizations, nations, etc. All are there because they are best at doing what they do against competition. How can anything so pervasive, so ubiquitous as the universe be anything other than meaningful?
What each of us do and value as players is up to us and to whatever forces drive us. The evidence is in. We're meaningful right down to the existence of the last bit of energy whenever.
Finally what a person values can be measured the same way. If what you believe inevitably leads you to death more rapidly than others who believe differently, who hold different values, have different aspirations, .....is/are less meaningful than those who survive longer.