Last night I sent out 3 tweets that could only be described as WTF?!
I discovered the meaning of life. There is no meaning to it. We are pretty insignificant really. People won’t care when you die, really.
Then
So if a person cares about you at all when you are alive, you are really lucky. There are some people in this world that no one cares about.
And finally
I guess this realization makes me no longer fear dying, or what I leave behind.
So in the context of things happening on this planet I really do wonder if we have lost touch with any meaning of life. We talk about God as some sort of force running the universe and yet it isn’t just bad things happening to good people, it’s that good people have stopped caring.
How is it possible that someone care shoot not one person but 27 people or 600 people and there is not even a thought about how can we prevent this from happening in the future?
I ran a half marathon this weekend and the charity was 2nd harvest food bank. They told all the runners in what was an emotional video, 1 in 6 Americans go without food every day.
We have many crisis here in America and the world. We have more resources, more information and the ability to affect change for the better in this world and we don’t.
The meaning of life
I wish I could tell you what it was, because I feel like it has no meaning. Maybe you have heard or read the quote,
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
-Edmund Burke
Jonah, probably the anti profit of the Bible, said to God,
Therefore now, O the Lord, take, I beseech Thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
Jonah was pissed that God allowed Evil to continue because they repented, but maybe the real rub is this, Jonah knew that they would return once again to their evil ways, and this moment of repentance was only to hold off the final decree.
Maybe Jonah was mellow dramatic in asking God to allow him to die, because God doesn’t take his life, but tries to teach him a lesson.
Thoughts
As much as I believe in God, I don’t think “He” is involved or cares to be in earthly affairs. It’s like the movie “Oh God!” George Burns plays God, and lays it all out in a final court room scene, where he is placed on trial. Ultimately he reminds us, we all have to get along and take care of what we have. https://youtu.be/nxmaYsZjnXoSometimes the universe comes down to just one person. And if anything or anyone matters, then that may be enough of a distraction to give our life meaning. At least for us to spend our days and direct our energy.
But I used to fear death, because of God, and now, I realize more than ever, it’s just the next phase. Something not to fear or wish for, but something that we all will experience. It’s permanent, walking from one place to the next, into a realm lost for forever. Maybe there is something. But I don’t hope or think anything about it. It just is.
Life has what meaning you give to it. And in the end, it probably won’t matter.
(Post ed… but you can make it matter).