God, Energy and Matter

[polymath257]

So, the maggoty buffalo dung is just as important as your sick child?  Think about what that means, what kind of a person it makes you.

Boru

We put the sick child first, of course, but  when it comes to what is in store for the universe the dung could be very  important.  We view everything from our small, limited perspective. God knows from the ultimate perspective.  This may seem like a silly analogy, but it's very true. If George Washington had slipped on a pile of horse dung and  cracked his skull immediately before crossing the Delaware, we could have lost the Revolutionary War and now be a British colony.

Let me say it one more time. *NOTHING* on Earth has much impact on a cosmic scale. Neither the child nor the dung has *cosmic* impact.  Even if the Revolutionary war had turned out a different way, from a cosmic viewpoint it is irrelevant.

You *want* there to be purpose. And, on the scale of us tiny humans, you *do* have purpose (I assume). But the purpose you experience because you are part of a social group of great apes doesn't mean the universe as a whole either has purpose nor that it should.

To expect to be able to generalize from the feeling of purpose you feel to the universe at large is, I repeat, the height of ego.