Very few of us, I believe, think about or are even aware of how delicately balanced our life is physiologically. There are enumerable dangerous events that could happen at any time, even without a warning and/or our ability to control, ending our life individually, or as a species or in totality--all life on Earth.
Why would this be of any interest? It is of interest to me, the fact of vulnerability of life, as I think about life's purpose. Most of those whom I know and/or whose thoughts I learn about, propose some sort of ongoing concern, as in "we live today so that there may be life tomorrow." I have always had a problem with that position for the simple reason that the life can be ended as mentioned above. Moreover, I assert that life in general, that of which we are a part, will end some day.
Given that conclusion, purpose of life can not be some future life. The purpose must be contained within the current life. What could it be?
Adding to what I wrote in an earlier blog entry, my purpose is to fully experience life itself.
Friday, January 30, 2015
This delicate life
Thursday, January 8, 2015
Rights an such
Here is a hypothetical:
Your next door neighbor tells you that he works night shifts and usually sleeps from 8am till about 2pm. He asks you to help him by not making too much noise during those hours. What would you do if on one morning you wash your car in your driveway close to your neighbor's house and just really want to listen to the car radio while doing this, knowing that the resulting noise would make it difficult for your neighbor to sleep? Would you assert your right to do as you please as long as it is legal, or would you, out of consideration for your neighbor, forgo your rights and not make the noise?
You know why I am asking this, right? Is it really necessary, just in order to assert your free speech rights (to publicly mock Prophet Mohamed, for example), to be offensive to others (some if not all in the Muslim world, in this case)? I think not! Relationships are more important than individual rights, especially so since those rights are not given as absolutes but are negotiated among men at certain time and place and should be subject to renegotiation at any time.