(December 10, 2015 at 6:42 pm)Amine Wrote:I would have to agree with that. You formulated your initial thoughts somewhat ambiguously though, thus my not totally agreeing with them.(December 10, 2015 at 6:22 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote: I can kind of relate to the type you describe in the first paragraph, so I would have to disagree. I'm not saying I'm a nut, but I'm not that much of a pessimist either.
The second paragraph, I can get more in line with.
A pessimist about what, I guess I would ask. The present or the future? If you're talking about the present, I would ask what you think could be good about the atrocities that regularly happen on the planet. I mean I'm certainly not saying that good things never happen, they obviously do, but just that bad things do and that they are tragic and that's it. If you're talking about the future, I would agree that we have reason to be cautiously optimistic that it will at least improve. But that still doesn't change the cold indifference of nature itself.
I would have to say there's surely explanations to why things happen and I'm sure there are explanations for how things ought to happen too or whether something is right or wrong(should we let it happen or not - it would be our decision though, based on evidence and sound reasoning). So that's all the meaning there is. The meaning we create ourselves. That's not to say it's not important, because it is.
