If matter is eternal, nothing matters. BoBo is sorry to be so blunt but it doesn’t take a genius to figure this one out. If matter is eternal, life is only a 60 minute game in which we struggle for the next breath amidst ever changing circumstances. If matter is eternal the best we can hope for is to give the next guy a better shot at a better limited future. There is no end game.
The
philosophers call the only possible end game God. God is described as the only
permanence in our world. The philosophers say there is no “potentiality” (change)
in God. BoBo believes, after a shallow exploration of the great thinkers, most
philosophers want to go there, some do and some don’t but they all talk about
God. We all are at different places in our lives but every thinking person
comes to understand, sooner or later, that if there is only matter, life has no
meaning. Our world is depressingly pointless. We fill our days with only matter. Some of us may ask, why are we here?
This is
where we are as a species. This is where we are in America. Look around, shared
human dignity is at a low ebb and the stock market rolls on. The other guy is
fodder to be used in our drive to validate our “now” with politics and money. Families
are torn asunder, new life is killed in the womb for the sake of expediency and
the homeless are but a political tool. Suicide is merely another choice. Sick
commercialism and killing to protect our space is somehow righteous. Life is
about career, security, getting high, sexual escapades or the glamor of notoriety. Ours is largely
a culture of death, a nothing culture.
Before there
was nothing, there was and is God. God is ultimate unity, perfect wholeness, completeness
and total freedom. That God, who was not content with perfection, willed matter
to be. Because matter is of God, everything matters,
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
