Finite Existence

[Salty Booger]

Is there beauty in a finite existence, being bound to this world and its limitations? Do you believe there is more beyond human experience which we live daily?


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[ChristineM]

You only live once so make the most of the beauty while you have a chance.

I am pretty sure there must be more beyond my experience, i haven seen everything on this planet and there are billions of other planets. But if you mean supernatural, no i don't believe there is anything beyond natural

 

[WalterTrull]

Nah... Sail too far towards the horizon and you'll fall off. That's obvious to any intelligent observer.

 

[PureX]

You only live once so make the most of the beauty while you have a chance.

I am pretty sure there must be more beyond my experience, i haven seen everything on this planet and there are billions of other planets. But if you mean supernatural, no i don't believe there is anything beyond natural

It does seem odd to venerate the ideal of 'infinity' when what is finite is already so vast that we will ever know it.

Also, I think it's because we are finite that we can experience beauty. For we humans, everything we experience must be perceived and recognized against the background of it's lack. For us to perceive something a beautiful, we need to do so against a background of the mundane, and the ugly. To perceive the "beauty of life", and to appreciate it, we need to know of death, and loss.

 

[SigurdReginson]

Meh... Realising the negative aspects in life makes the positive aspects shine that much more brilliantly agains the backdrop of grey.

Why set one's gaze beyond that when we haven't even taken the time to fully explore what we have now? What matters is the life we live today. Don't squander it.

 

[Pete in Panama]

s there beauty in a finite existence, being bound to this world...

You can't just mean the Planet Earth, that would exclude those who've been to the moon and the space station. You probably mean the knowable universe: 3 spatial dimensions + time. Right?

 

[Salty Booger]

You can't just mean the Planet Earth, that would exclude those who've been to the moon and the space station. You probably mean the knowable universe: 3 spatial dimensions + time. Right?

The whole shabang--human perception and human experience.