Friday, October 28, 2011
Enjoy it While You Can!
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We make more life. Life 'overflows the cup.' Life starves onto death. Life oscillates up and down between life and death, maintaining a natural balance. Both life and death are normal expressions of our glorious universe: We are born; we die. Enjoy it while you can! 'You' will never return. Never.
But what if another form of life 'discovers us?' Eats us all?
Not bloody likely. Although The Universe is literally 'brimming with life,' 'distance' protects us. 'They' won't even know that we exist for many years. So we have time to prepare.
But us individuals will die very soon and will never live again. What is the implication of that?
My take is that those of us who are truly intelligent recognize the various constructs which produce 'happiness,' and that 'happiness' is the ultimate human achievement. Live happy. Die happy! Only idiots 'live long and prosper,' unhappy.
We make more life. Life 'overflows the cup.' Life starves onto death. Life oscillates up and down between life and death, maintaining a natural balance. Both life and death are normal expressions of our glorious universe: We are born; we die. Enjoy it while you can! 'You' will never return. Never.
But what if another form of life 'discovers us?' Eats us all?
Not bloody likely. Although The Universe is literally 'brimming with life,' 'distance' protects us. 'They' won't even know that we exist for many years. So we have time to prepare.
But us individuals will die very soon and will never live again. What is the implication of that?
My take is that those of us who are truly intelligent recognize the various constructs which produce 'happiness,' and that 'happiness' is the ultimate human achievement. Live happy. Die happy! Only idiots 'live long and prosper,' unhappy.
