Aswad
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ORIGINAL: LaTigresse Religious sorts have been preaching the end of the world is near, for centuries. Maybe the end of THEIR world, but I am pretty confident that mine will suit me just fine long after I am gone. Some of us preach that the end of the world is not near, that the end is not preordained, but rather one of many possible outcomes of the collective actions and attitudes of humanity as a whole, that we must act in ways that are consonant with continued life and quality thereof, and that rather than a single judgment, reality itself judges us every moment and metes out consequences in a predictable and fairly consistent manner. The rest of it is mostly about the humility to remember that humanity is a tiny fraction of the fauna of a tiny blue dot orbiting a small star in a tiny corner of a galaxy in the local cluster that is part of the local group, and so on up to a scale that is quite simply too large for our pathetic little minds to grasp. We have a tendency to get above ourselves, to forget that the universe won't even notice if one of the many near-Earth objects should happen to slam into us and wipe out all life on this planet. It's not even going to make a difference on a galactic scale, which is pretty damn small. quote:
Then again, I actually enjoy change. I would suppose this depends on the nature of the change? quote:
I like being shoved out of my comfort zones. I think it's good for people. As a rule, this depends on how far outside the comfort zone one is pushed. Being outside the comfort zone makes people more capable, while moving into the aversive/backlash zone makes people less capable and more dead set against something. quote:
The planet has been evolving since it's creation. There is no reason to believe it's going to stop, just because we happen to like the way it is at any particular moment. This is certainly true. quote:
Yes, I see and sense change, but I am not afraid of it. I am actually excited about it. Nobody's talking about being afraid, I think. For myself, I'm simply talking about being incompatible with certain changes that are headed my way. IWYW, — Aswad.
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"If God saw what any of us did that night, he didn't seem to mind. From then on I knew: God doesn't make the world this way. We do." -- Rorschack, Watchmen.
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