At every tick of the clock, on every inhabited part of the world, an unimaginable richness and variety of history falls off the world into total oblivion.
C. S. Lewis
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At every tick of the clock, on every inhabited part of the world, an unimaginable richness and variety of history falls off the world into total oblivion.
C. S. Lewis
2 Comments:
for the atheist, yeah it's depressing. nothing you do, no matter how great is ever going to matter. sure they'll be a few names that history remembers, but eventually it's all going to be lost.
but it's not depressing if your a Christian, sad perhaps, but nothing worthy of suicide... rather it makes God's majesty and omniscience that much more overwhelming and awesome...all of our actions will be remembered, counted, important. and this is every action made by every person throughout the whole history of mankind. each of us plays a role in bringing about God's Will, and if history doesn't remember us, well, that really doesn't matter does it? each of us makes up a part of the book of this world, and without us, it wouldn't be this world, but another world entirely.
on another note- is there really a high rate of suicide among philosophers? and why? is it that they've become so horribly depressed with the state of the world, life simply isn't worth living? or are they trying to make a statement of some sort? or both? like in Meet John Doe? though if everything falls into oblivion anyway, it'd be rather silly to try and make a statement. and how could life not be worth living? do any of these suicidal philosophers have children? even if they didn't, surely there must be something one cares about... i'm sure i sound horribly naive here and i'm going to sound insensitive, but it seems suicide is a copout.
i certainly hope not...heh...considering the path of study i have chosen...
you'd think that philosophers, those who seek truth and wisdom, would be least likely to commit suicide. the answer isn't easy - the means by which we achieve happiness is virtue (the well lived life) - but it is the truth. ah, whatever. :)
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