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Your Worldview
- Thread starter lunamoth
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Guitar's Cry
Disciple of Pan
I chose neutral.
As emotional beings, with an intense instinct of self-preservation, living in a universe that is deterministic and fraught with constant change makes us view things as positive and negative depending on how it affects our lives and emotions.
As emotional beings, with an intense instinct of self-preservation, living in a universe that is deterministic and fraught with constant change makes us view things as positive and negative depending on how it affects our lives and emotions.
lunamoth
Will to love
Booko said:
Do you feel that there is a positive force encouraging us toward virtue operating in the universe? As above, do you see a benevolent God Who desires to see humans progress and succeed, however you might define success?
BTW, thank you to everyone who answers and any of the questions I pose are for consideration by all...
Hirohito18200
Member
Since as organisms we have the impulse to survive and procreate... our inevitable destruction brought on by the universe would make it a negative. Of course this isn't a *deliberate willing* of the universe, but simply a contrast between our desire for life and the reality of death.
my2cents
my2cents
eudaimonia
Fellowship of Reason
lunamoth said:
Benevolent.
But not out of any conscious will, but by the fact that human reason and will opens the universe up to positive human values.
eudaimonia,
Mark
Hirohito18200
Member
lunamoth said:
It can be handled in a variety of ways. You can easily fit it into a Christian world view, given the corruption of nature etc. and the pervasiveness of sin.
From a secular perspective, it can either inspire to a lifestyle of Epicureanism or one of despondency/suicide.
Inevitable doom isn't the problem so much as losing motivation to continue to exist. It's hard for me personally to be afraid of non-existence since it's not something that I can easily fathom. If I choose to live a full life, it's simply because I have a desire to, notwithstanding my oh-so-terrible fate.
Comprehend
Res Ipsa Loquitur
positive. - I think God created the universe for us, and I think God loves us. So I would reason that the universe is a positive thing for us.
YmirGF
Bodhisattva in Recovery
My worldview is most definitely positive. I "see" god in all that surrounds me, even the so-called bad or "naughty" stuff. I would like to think that overall I am incredibly optimistic about the future of the human animal... though I may not sound like it at times when I am ranting, lol.
IronicallyTwisted
Member
Mixed.
The universe simply exists. It does not have a concious ability to delve down any particular path concerning its stance on us as a species.
On the other hand, the Universe is so capable of ending our existance with an event so uneventful in the grand scheme of things as to be cruel.
The universe simply exists. It does not have a concious ability to delve down any particular path concerning its stance on us as a species.
On the other hand, the Universe is so capable of ending our existance with an event so uneventful in the grand scheme of things as to be cruel.
YmirGF said:
Although I voted "Neutral" I agree with your post Paul. The question, as it was phrased, was
And whilst I would be the first one to agree that God is all around us, and I see him in everything, I feel that the universe is "neutral", in that it is neither good, nor bad; we are the ones that make it one way or the other.