Thread: Does it really matter?

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

Yes it matters.

"Why," you ask? Simple. Because, if nobody gave a damn about any of these questions of morality and injustice, that we talk about (seemingly, pointlessly), then the world would be a much worse place for all of mankind - not just ourselves.

If everybody truly "didn't give a fuck", because it "doesn't matter, on a cosmic scale", then it would be a veritable Hell on Earth.

It is BECAUSE people care about these kinds of things enough to talk about them (even though talking about it 'doesn't matter') that there is a sense of balance.

One person's forum activity doesn't change the world. Ideologies change the world, and conversation is the conduit for ideology.

might I add that one's capacity for persuasion, not merely conversation alone, is a pretty big factor in the translation from an ideology to implementation in reality...

'Live happily with the woman you love through all the meaningless days of life that God has given you under the sun.' 'When I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless...'~Solomon
(Solomon getting at how pointless Earthly pursuits are.

Well, yeah. Obviously, everything passes away. If people live long enough, statistically speaking, Adolf Hitler will be forgotten. Everything we do is forgotten and crumbles and dies. That's a given.

But just because the past is gone forever and the future isn't happening doesn't mean they don't matter at all. Because right now is happening right now, right now matters right now. So yesterday matters in relation to how we can use it's lessons today. Tommorow should be prepared for because it will become the present. Things matter relative to the present.

I do think that 'concepts' can last, though. If I put love out into the world, that can inspire someone else to put more love and more and more and it can continue until the human race ceases to exist. Same with hate. Maybe that is a little naieve of me. But meh.

Oh, and morality is neccesssary for society to function. So there's that. It serves a practical purpose.

When the human race is gone though, yeah, it was all just one big crapshoot save for our relationship with God.