From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@ricochet.net)
Date: Sun Jun 03 2001 - 00:25:39 MDT
Mitch writes
>> I still don't understand the despair you're trying to describe
>> Because of existential problems? What like "why does anything
>> exist" or instead ones along the lines of Sartre or Camus?
>Despair expresses itself because there is nothing but eternal death, and
>therefore dying is more important (by weight) then living. Also, whatever
>tragedies, unfairness, disease, misery, is therefore having the last word,
so
>close the book now, forever.
Have you not hear the Good Word? There is a chance that not
only death but all suffering will soon be extinguished!
There arises in the East (actually, to be specific, Atlanta)
Good Tidings of great joy. Our salvation may be at hand.
So rejoice ye, it **could** be true!
Yet even so, reside ye further in darkness as an Unbeliever,
know ye that the plight of people improves steadily even
without the great S.
On a whole planet, (the third one from Sol), there has already
arisen life, and if anything the amount of life there grows
steadily even unto this very moment. Not only that!!!
Extremely recently some of these living beings have, due to
an incredible cerebral explosion, reached plateaus of emotion,
thought, rationality, and scientific explanation achieved
probably no where in the entire visible universe. Not only that!!!
Even more recently, these highest beings have escaped the worst
clutches of poverty---not that life even in the City of Joy was
ever unworthy of living for most people---and have escaped war
(thanks to the divine Hydrogen Bomb, the actual Salvation of
the 1960's). Not only that!!! but their prosperity world-wide
increases exponentially even as we speak.
And to top it all off, it seems most wonderfully probable that
from the Earth will emerge a Life Burst, and at close to the
speed of light Life will soon convert the unbelieving dead
matter everywhere to eternal joy.
So what's really to despair about? Yes, the frightful
holocaust continues: 300,000+ people die every day on
Earth even though cryonics has already been discovered,
and yes, governments act to prevent the development of
chemical solutions to the worst problem, and so on, and,
regrettably, so on and on.
But we must continue to study the glass as half full,
not half empty. Be of good cheer. Look at the big
picture (whenever you possibly can.)
Lee
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