If a meteor crashes (right now) and the earth is shattered in a zillion pieces and will disappear forever, does it matter?

There are 2 options:

• YES – in this case you could well be a dualist, you are religious or have any kind of other memes in your mind that tell you “there is more” and we are important enough for the universe that it matters
• NO – in this case you could well be an atheist or have a secular viewpoint or a weird religion who actually will regard it as just a physical event in the universe but nothing more than that. You could even be the one who points out that even the question is nonsense or incorrect (still you would be a NO person).

Being in either in the YES group or the NO group matters actually a lot in the present and the way your inner self experiences the world as well as how your behavior is as a result of this ground-level lemma, it works all the way through to the details of your behavior.

As an example: would you improve things (anything, from civilization to yourself) if you fall in the NO group. Countless discussions were there on this subject. The strange thing is however that the NO group actually improves things just like the YES group. Improving is somehow a property of being a human, it’s inside of us. But the difference is the explanation in your own inner self for the reason why you improve things (e.g. civilization or yourself). The NO group actually has the advantage that it isn’t bound by dogma’s so it improves things for humanity and themselves a lot quicker.

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One Response to “Does anything matter?”

1. Wafing says:

   January 29, 2007 at 11:10 pm

   Thanks Ed! I would like to discuss this with a couple of good glasses of beer, from your perfectDraft or was it beertender

   Cheers,

   Wafing

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