Oh I assumed he was making fun of it too, I just don't get why it happened in the first place. I want to start color-coding my posts by positive/negative phrases now too.
I'm apparently very negative.
Green for titles or terms of significance;
Red where one would normally only italicise for emphasis, and occassionally to highlight specific terms that are not significant enough to receive the
Green treatment.
It's just a theme I've developed to differentiate my writing from the rest of the crop's. That, and it satisfies the Obsessive Compulsive in me. Besides, didn't this topic begin with a contemplation on whether "Universal Love" (and, by extension, "World Peace") is an eventual possibility? In a sense, by promoting
diversity of style, my post was ironically symbolic of my own views on the subject...
If we died trying at least we tried.
I fully agree with this statement. In regard to this point, my philosophy is in-line with a certain Curtis Jackson's:
Although the human race may not survive long enough to calculate the eventual sum, we are constantly uncovering new variables and figures in this seemingly never-ending equation that is scientific and technological development.
Living a dull (or torturous) life hoping it'll brighten up down the road is well just that, hope, and let me tell you you it doesn't brighten up unless you make it brighten up.
I also agree with what you write here. I believe that whilst life may be utterly devoid of meaning, we are "free" (in a sense of the word) to define and attribute a meaning of our own. In order to attempt to solve problems on the
macro scale, we must first concentrate on rectifying those at the
micro level, starting with
Self-Improvement. The "source", if you will.
Which leads-on to...
What annoys me about the whole process is that so many in high places are greedy and selfish, that they couldn't care less about mankind moving forward, or if mankind moving forward as a species, curing all diseases, colonising space etc makes it harder for them to line their pockets it can go to hell.
This is an unfortunate thing that mankind - in its attempt to establish a structure within which to progress - has created for itself: the pursuit of a higher state of being. It's a sad-but-true by-product of human civilization, and at the same time the core ideal of this construct. You've got to aim high if you're going to reach high. But then once you reach Heaven, would you really want to toss the fruits of your labour back down into Hell if that meant living a life of poverty in paradise?
While
Self-Improvement may yield the first answer in a long line of questions, the real question is - having answered the first question - "do we end up losing interest in moving onto the second?" Is this "Universal Love" possible when in the euphoric state of self-satisfaction we sink into a sub-state of blissful apathy?
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