Re: In The Natural (Or "God's") World Genocide Is Commonplace

[takeitotheusa]

On 10/5/2014 9:10 AM, Clyde Armstrong wrote:

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NOTHING TO DO WITH CANADIAN POLITICS
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> Just think, the world's present population of about 7 billion human beings will
> all be dead in about 125 years. They will have been killed off by time, by nature in a multitude of ways: disease, accidents, suicide, homicide, war etc. But it will all be part of god's will. I don't believe in god, so I'll just say nature, time, the life force, the universal will or whatever.
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> The unanswerable question is why? We call a person like the late Mao Zedong of
> China a monster because among other things he implemented genocide by killing millions of his own people, mainly through starvation, to make China a better place. But Mao's genocide compared to (God's) nature's genocide is actually miniscule.
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> There is no evidence that the Universal Will is trying to make the world
> a better place. And natural genocide is not just limited to Homo Sapiens as there are now more extinct species of life than extant.
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> Some philosophers, mainly existentialists, look at life, the universe, the Universal Will behind it all, as evil in that our definition of evil is "that which causes suffering". No doubt there are some pleasures in life, but these are heavily outweighed by the pain, e.g. the struggle and hard work required just for survival: sickness, loneliness, boredom, rejection, uncertainty, failure, aging, angst, the threat of inevitable death, the absurdity etc.
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> This what depresses me most of all--the futility and the purposelessness of life. We have had men of generation after generation, charlatans all, (Jesus is perhaps the best known) try to explain or describe the meaningfulness
> of life and the importance of goodness to the individual-- but all in vain.
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> More important and truthful are the existentialist philosophers and poets like Shakespeare, Democritus, Sartre, Camus, Beckett, Thomas Hardy, Rabelais etc.
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> We have to agree with Shakespeare's Hamlet when he could say, "How weary, stale,
> flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world! Or Rabelais who
> wished he was a giant like his Gargantua who was tall enough to piss down on
> an ignorant and evil society.
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