Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site hao.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!bill From: bill@hao.UUCP (Bill Roberts) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Thoughts Message-ID: <1838@hao.UUCP> Date: Sat, 2-Nov-85 08:34:14 EST Article-I.D.: hao.1838 Posted: Sat Nov 2 08:34:14 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 05:04:55 EST References: <> <846@nmtvax.UUCP> Organization: High Altitude Obs./NCAR, Boulder CO Lines: 39 > >As does life go on and on, though I sometimes wonder what the reason > >behind all this madness is. Strangely, the answer is never clear, not, > >I think, to anyone. Frustrations abound, yet also in all we find is a > > > . . . . > > more thoughts: > > This is the essence of life..... What do we really know? We can never > really know everything about the universe, someone else, or even ourselves. > We just exist, sometimes pretty sure why, and then at other times not > in the least bit. We go from happy to unhappy, sometimes we are lonely, > other times we are not. Sometimes we feel good about ourselves, and at > time we don't. The same goes about the world and events that happen to us; > we either do or don't feel good about it. There really is no one reason > behind all of this; each of us pretty much has a reason, and though some > of us may have the same reason, what goes into it isn't the same. > Ever since man could think about this, he has, and still hasn't come > to any conclusions about it. Somethings are better left alone. > > Roger Levasseur Looking at the world in such a manner is probably a very healthy thing to do. It may just be that we humans are merely the results of 20 billion years of evolution of elementary particles. That is, given a box of hydrogen atoms, if you wait 18 - 24 billion years, something different will be in the box. The box will be thinking about itself. I guess what I'm trying to say is that we are just the results of some natural processes. Some people try to make a big deal out of it by using mythical attributes to answer the big question. Others enjoy examining the world and extracting the "truth", which in all likelyhood is tentative. Looking at the world in a pragmatic way, and dealing with it as is, provides positive growth. I hope I've made my point. I also hope I don't catch a load of grief. This view may sound dull and depressing but I find it fascinating. I think it important for all people to have some basis views in common. : Bill ; " the sun is the same in a relative way, but your older..."