Finite
Imagine if everything was finite. Tangible or not, imagine it all came from a finite reserve.
Not just the air you breathe or the water you drink, but also the feelings you always had.
Your happiness or sorrow or ambition or hope or even despair; they were all finite feelings that you could one day run out of and be unable to feel them anymore.
Imagine also that you know the amount available in that reserve that all humans share, so if you smile you be consuming the one chance of someone else ever knowing how it is like to smile.
The more knowledge you learn or experience you gain would mean depriving someone else of that and keeping him in the dark.
The more health and sports you practice, the more someone else is in pain fighting some a fierce disease.
Even the distance you always displaced your vehicle through would be constantly cutting out of the total available distance the whole world can commute, resulting in another person being unable to move again.
The feeling of sorrow for losing someone dear could just be unavailable as it was repeatedly consumed when someone else was sad or angry about something trivial that was unworthy.
The pride or glory that was based on false victories and mistaken heroes would eventually mean real heroes are never to be glorified or appreciated as their world had already ran out of pride.
Creativity, innovation and new ideas, imagine they were all finite, what happens when people use the available ideas reserve in evil deeds; fighting each other, trapping others, betraying one another, what share then would prosperity and peace feed and foster from.
Friendship and love, if it all was for the sake of benefit and advantage, how would a soul find its soul mate if the cosmic soul bonds were all torn.
Prayers if all were for selfish needs and desires, what fate would await light-hearted, devoted and kind angels.
What would remain of the Fairness reserve if it was distributed unevenly across bribers, rulers and occupiers; the answer is nothing finite or infinite will remain.
Not just the air you breathe or the water you drink, but also the feelings you always had.
Your happiness or sorrow or ambition or hope or even despair; they were all finite feelings that you could one day run out of and be unable to feel them anymore.
Imagine also that you know the amount available in that reserve that all humans share, so if you smile you be consuming the one chance of someone else ever knowing how it is like to smile.
The more knowledge you learn or experience you gain would mean depriving someone else of that and keeping him in the dark.
The more health and sports you practice, the more someone else is in pain fighting some a fierce disease.
Even the distance you always displaced your vehicle through would be constantly cutting out of the total available distance the whole world can commute, resulting in another person being unable to move again.
The feeling of sorrow for losing someone dear could just be unavailable as it was repeatedly consumed when someone else was sad or angry about something trivial that was unworthy.
The pride or glory that was based on false victories and mistaken heroes would eventually mean real heroes are never to be glorified or appreciated as their world had already ran out of pride.
Creativity, innovation and new ideas, imagine they were all finite, what happens when people use the available ideas reserve in evil deeds; fighting each other, trapping others, betraying one another, what share then would prosperity and peace feed and foster from.
Friendship and love, if it all was for the sake of benefit and advantage, how would a soul find its soul mate if the cosmic soul bonds were all torn.
Prayers if all were for selfish needs and desires, what fate would await light-hearted, devoted and kind angels.
What would remain of the Fairness reserve if it was distributed unevenly across bribers, rulers and occupiers; the answer is nothing finite or infinite will remain.
posted by voicy at
5/23/2006 03:11:00 AM
1 Comments:
Thought experiments like this feed the brain and jog the soul's ability to put everything into percpective. It's a mindboggling idea that perhaps would promote the couch potatoe syndrome and take it to a new extreme. I'll just sit here so i don't deprive anyone else of doing all that I would have done. In doing so you eat up any hope of altruism and in turn quicken the atrosities that humans commit against each other. It's Crazy!
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