I am watching the documentary series BBC Space. It is presented by Sam Neill and is incredibly dramatic. In one episode, it talks about how a comet may hit earth and wipe out all life. It also tries to hypothesize on solutions and things to do. Now here is my question. If all of life was wiped out, would it be sad? If there is no one there to experience the after effects, it would be momentary and one second we are there and the next we aren't. So whats the big deal? Would you even want to know it was coming at us? Would you want to know the world would end? Are we just wasting our time trying to protect ourself from inevitable death? Shouldn't we be doing things to improve life for all, as opposed to trying not to die? Isn't that a better use of time and resources? Making our lives meaningful as opposed to empty.
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Very very very, okay, extremely admire the depth there is to your question(s). Death is sort'of a scare when it happens individually. When you see people falling one after another. When you feel suddenly weak, exposed, and taken by the mystery of death, the doubts it evokes, and ellaborate questions: when? how? will it hurt? will it be lonely and wormy to be buried? when will it happen? how? But to think that we all might go together. Man, selfish as it mays ound, dying together doesn't sound like a bad idea-think about it too much and it will start to be...
I love the richness of your soul.
My vocabulary's rather stuck on simplistic terms right now, and I do beg your pardon because I'm not usually this ineloquent. I just want to tell you how serene/comfortable/happy it is to read your reflections.
You write with the confidence that most of us have been famous to fail grasping in the absence of faith: That even if we don't have possessions, if our limbs are scattered across the country, and the world ends, we'd still be alright.
This faith could not have come out of apathy, because apathy would have turned us bitter. This faith can only come in believing in something that so much larger than life.
It's a shame that soulfulness and integrity can't be taught in blog posts and comments.
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