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I lean towards his cat.@Lexicus Nice meme seeing all those nicely grouped; and of course I lean towards Schrodinger.
I lean towards his cat.@Lexicus Nice meme seeing all those nicely grouped; and of course I lean towards Schrodinger.
Not in the new place, thankfully. It's under pretty tight lockdown and the patients never get visitors anyway. And almost everybody in the hospital is double vaccinated.Covid at work place?
There is a lot of suffering captured in the bolded.It's under pretty tight lockdown and the patients never get visitors anyway. And almost everybody in the hospital is double vaccinated.
So very true. It can be heartbreaking at times.There is a lot of suffering captured in the bolded.
Personal stories can make great reading. Just write it well.The unfriendly part in my existence is my personal life. I could make an entire (boring) thread on the past two years.
Nah. I'd get flamed for too much kvetching.Personal stories can make great reading. Just write it well.
You are part of the Universe that is aware. Therefore, your part of the Universe is aware. Multiply that by every conscious lifeform on our planet and anywhere else.We are part of the universe but that we are aware doesn't make the universe aware. We aren't a group consciousness.
Not in the new place, thankfully. It's under pretty tight lockdown and the patients never get visitors anyway. And almost everybody in the hospital is double vaccinated.
The unfriendly part in my existence is my personal life. I could make an entire (boring) thread on the past two years.
Probably true but we can't help ourselves.The universe doesn't need to be anything, let alone a binary between friendly and unfriendly. Most applications of philosophy are just symptoms of ego.
.Nah. I'd get flamed for too much kvetching.
Oh god. Don't get me started down that road again...Irish people kvetching is cultural appropriation.
Evolution is basically "survival of those species most successful at adapting."Is life evolving towards less collective suffering?
Most likely we will never know the answer, so we have to make a judgment call for ourselves. The choice one makes will set one upon a path unlike the paths offered by other choices. Choose wisely and with conviction.
I was exercising listening to this song* & trying to remember the Einstein quote about whether the universe is benevolent or not so I found it.
Spoiler :"I think the most important question facing humanity is, ‘Is the universe a friendly place?’ This is the first and most basic question all people must answer for themselves.
"For if we decide that the universe is an unfriendly place, then we will use our technology, our scientific discoveries and our natural resources to achieve safety and power by creating bigger walls to keep out the unfriendliness and bigger weapons to destroy all that which is unfriendly and I believe that we are getting to a place where technology is powerful enough that we may either completely isolate or destroy ourselves as well in this process.
"If we decide that the universe is neither friendly nor unfriendly and that God is essentially ‘playing dice with the universe’, then we are simply victims to the random toss of the dice and our lives have no real purpose or meaning.
"But if we decide that the universe is a friendly place, then we will use our technology, our scientific discoveries and our natural resources to create tools and models for understanding that universe. Because power and safety will come through understanding its workings and its motives."
"God does not play dice with the universe,"
--Albert Einstein
I don't quite agree w his line of reasoning that believing in some inherent meaning/order will create a more sane society. The statistics show the opposite (the more secular societies are less violent/destructive/warlike).
I do find it exhausting tho contemplating a meaningless universe. It's energizing to think you know something even tho you don't.
For me this question is something I can't really get out of my head, I imagine that's pretty common.
* is it a forest of love or just a forest?
Irish people kvetching is cultural appropriation.