that all gives me comfort in that people can only fuck themselves over and the world will ultimately survive... but the thing is, they can fuck me over in the process and i might not survive. i don't want to live through an energy crisis, or war, or drought, or famine, or anything else that would put me in danger. So, instead of seeing things as meaningless on the long scale, I see them as being of dire importance in relation to my own survival. Of course I will die eventually, but if I'm smart, that won't happen for another 80 years or more. seeing as how we're so short lived, how can the long term meaninglessness of it all have any meaning to us? it's the short term consequences of our lifestyles that are going to make a difference.
my "society and the environment" class is making my roommate think i am crazy. i have a midterm in it tomorrow, on environmental economics and cost benefit analysis systems (super boring!!!)
it's cool how every story of creation and existence ripples out into the microcosmic meaning of life for each person...even the scientific "stories" of the expansion and contraction of the universe, of evolution and geology, give rise to a certain philosophy of life, an amoral nihilism which has its truths. But all of science, beyond observations of the physical world, is just theory; just stories (with plots based on logical, axiomatic progression) of how it might've happened. For all we actually know, God could've carbon-dated and placed rock strata in the ground to test His faithful believers, since we weren't there. That story creates a very different philosophy of life, one where it's important to believe in miracles, which also has its truths. All the old mythological stories of a meaningful creation/life are just stories too, based on observations of the physical world.
Wow this is like a month and a half after you wrote this, huh. But it made me think.
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my "society and the environment" class is making my roommate think i am crazy. i have a midterm in it tomorrow, on environmental economics and cost benefit analysis systems (super boring!!!)
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...the pants off of every other major
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Wow this is like a month and a half after you wrote this, huh. But it made me think.
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