One time I told my son we all Do The Work of Living and our payment/reward is hopefully getting a chance to get up and Do The Work the next day. I think it’s true, funny, but that’s not all I think there is to life (as a creative/artist) My girlfriend shushed me and told me that was too bleak.
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A lot of brilliant people have made a fantastic life possible, but a lot of selfish, self centered people interfere with too many people’s lives.
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Life has meaning but we cant understand it
I think meaning of life is to live survive and reproduce
People are not better then animals … animals are more peaceful and more harmless.
You must not live where there are coyotes, wolves, cougars, and bears. I always have two cans of bear spray on me at all times when hiking (in case one fails).
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No need to go into their space and frighten them
This is nothing compared to human damage to nature and each other
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You’re right that we are the most vicious animal on the face of the planet. But man is much more complex than simply its sins. You are a pessimist and you’re angry at the world. Need to consider how to change your perspective so that your life can be good.
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It’s all our space and, yes, I do need to be out there. Better than in front of this sodding computer.
Animals and plants damage ecosytems all the time. Look at what the housecat can do to an area, or the pine beetle, or zebra mussels.
Nature absolutely undoes parts of itself all the time—fires burn forests, predators kill prey, storms erase coastlines, bacteria break down bodies. From a human lens, that can look like destruction.
But from nature’s own perspective, that “destruction” is usually transformation.
A wildfire kills trees, but it also releases seeds and nutrients.
A predator ends a life, but keeps a population healthy.
Decay looks like loss, yet it’s how soil, energy, and new life are made.
Nature isn’t trying to preserve individual things; it preserves systems and cycles. What disappears in one form shows up in another.
The tricky part is that humans often break the cycles—we destroy without allowing regeneration. That’s when nature can’t easily repair itself.
So yeah—nature tears itself down constantly.
But it does so in a way that almost always makes room for what’s next, not emptiness.
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Im.not angry at the world and im.not pessimist i state what it is
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Not everything is about me. If everything be abkut me then i be god
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You state your perspective on what is, but you bring your own biases just like I do and everyone else does. Gaia will get tired of mankind at some point and shrug us off. The recent pandemic showed us how fragile our systems are at coping with nature.
Its only your belief you are future telling
If you mean my biases, yes, but I am also extrapolating from scientic knowledge of past extinction events and a fairly good knowledge of biology and how intelligently bacterial communities work together behind the scenes.
Nature has a lot going on all of the time and humans have barely gotten a glimpse into how that machine works.
I doubt life has, or should have, any overarching meaning for everyone. Sounds like a terrible idea if that were the case. Instead meaning is created moment to moment by virtue of just existing and trying to come up with something worthwhile. But it is easier said than done.
My own personal faith gives me all the meaning that I need, I am happy to say that no matter what, ‘I believe’ 