Saturday, March 06, 2010

This World, Our World

Albert Einstein wrote: “The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.”

What, however, is truly comprehensible about our world is that it is pointless, if not meaningless, not to mention utterly directionless.

The most we can do is to make the most, creatively, out of this short and brief life. After all, even the bible admits that “the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward for the memory of them is forgotten.” Ecc. 9:5

For my personal part, as a man well-established as a loner, I try consistently to make sense of my life by cultivating a rather self-conscious sensitivity to the troubles of others in love with life or devoid of it. Poch Suzara

2 comments:

erebusnyx said...

I'm amused when people--usually theists--carelessly and naively arrogate the concepts of "pointfulness" and "meaningfulness" to things out outside humans. Somehow they just assume that they can be applied to planets, stars, galaxies. Well, what's the point and meaning of a nebula or a black hole? That interrogative is grammatically correct. But it is senseless. It's like asking, What is the scent of Shakespeare's Hamlet? Smell cannot be meaningfully extended to just any phenomenon. Likewise for "pointfulness," "pointlessness", "meaningfulness," "meaninglessness." These are subjective, value judgments made by humans. They are not properties of objects, neither of rocks or stars.

erebusnyx said...

I'm amused when people--usually theists--carelessly and naively arrogate the concepts of "pointfulness" and "meaningfulness" to things out outside humans. Somehow they just assume that they can be applied to planets, stars, galaxies. Well, what's the point and meaning of a nebula or a black hole? That interrogative is grammatically correct. But it is senseless. It's like asking, What is the scent of Shakespeare's Hamlet? Smell cannot be meaningfully extended to just any phenomenon. Likewise for "pointfulness," "pointlessness", "meaningfulness," "meaninglessness." These are subjective, value judgments made by humans. They are not properties of objects, neither of rocks or stars.