So I was conversing with my brother yesterday and I asked him "Do you think the world we live in is perfect?". He said that he believed that at one-time this world was perfect but then sin was introduced, in turn making the world imperfect. Now your answer to this question might vary depending on your faith, if you even have a faith, but I think that the world we live in is "Imperfectly perfect". Meaning to say that the death, the murders, the war, all the atrocities that have happened, and will ever happened, are "good". By good I do not mean that those actions are justified or right, but they must exist in order for this world to be "perfect".
My reason for coming to this conclusion is convoluted at best so please bear with me. My first thought was of Hitler. Now, I don't like Hitler. I think Hitler was a jerk, ingrate, [insert dirty word here]. But I can't deny all the things I have come to love that his existence has given birth to. The movies, the books, the games, the TV shows, the art, etc... Through his evil beauty was born and continues to be born. I believe it is the yin and yang of the world we live in. That within good there will be evil and within evil there will always be good. One cannot exist without the other.
My second theory revolves around the idea of creating the perfect world. Chances are if you were given all the power throughout the cosmos you would try to bring peace. No war, no death, no sickness, no hunger, yada yada yada, bing bang boom, and poof... there it is. But it's not that easy. Because there is one rule. You may not interfere in an obvious way. Meaning you can't magically spawn food. Why? Well, that's easy Jimmy because it doesn't happen in the world we live now. Or perhaps it does, who am I to say it doesn't, but the way in which occurs currently allows for reasonable doubt. Meaning there is no giant hand in the sky reaching down and making grass grow. In a manner that everyone around the world can agree that there is a hand in the sky that makes the grass grow.
Let's start with ridding the world of sickness. Bacteria and viruses are the prime causes of sickness. As a solution you could get rid of the one's that cause harm. Problem is that getting rid of any any element causes more issues. Bacteria help produce a multitude of oxygen and nitrogen in the air. If you wish to get rid of the bacteria and alternative means of human survival needs to be created. Simply put, the world we live in is a complicated spider web. A very large one at that and even if you had the power to change everything without the knowledge on the "how to" or the "what to" it is useless. I haven't even started to delve into the complications of getting rid of death, war, and hunger. Even if you could stop death you have to then figure out how to deal with overpopulation. War cannot be stopped without changing human emotions. Getting rid of jealousy, anger, and hatred would be a start. But if you do that then those beings aren't human any more? Are they? My attention span is starting to wear and I'm starting to become annoyed just thinking about this. Point is that all scenarios of a perfect world lead to this one. At least that's how I feel.
But this isn't about how feel. Please tell me what you think of this thing that we call life.
My reason for coming to this conclusion is convoluted at best so please bear with me. My first thought was of Hitler. Now, I don't like Hitler. I think Hitler was a jerk, ingrate, [insert dirty word here]. But I can't deny all the things I have come to love that his existence has given birth to. The movies, the books, the games, the TV shows, the art, etc... Through his evil beauty was born and continues to be born. I believe it is the yin and yang of the world we live in. That within good there will be evil and within evil there will always be good. One cannot exist without the other.
My second theory revolves around the idea of creating the perfect world. Chances are if you were given all the power throughout the cosmos you would try to bring peace. No war, no death, no sickness, no hunger, yada yada yada, bing bang boom, and poof... there it is. But it's not that easy. Because there is one rule. You may not interfere in an obvious way. Meaning you can't magically spawn food. Why? Well, that's easy Jimmy because it doesn't happen in the world we live now. Or perhaps it does, who am I to say it doesn't, but the way in which occurs currently allows for reasonable doubt. Meaning there is no giant hand in the sky reaching down and making grass grow. In a manner that everyone around the world can agree that there is a hand in the sky that makes the grass grow.
Let's start with ridding the world of sickness. Bacteria and viruses are the prime causes of sickness. As a solution you could get rid of the one's that cause harm. Problem is that getting rid of any any element causes more issues. Bacteria help produce a multitude of oxygen and nitrogen in the air. If you wish to get rid of the bacteria and alternative means of human survival needs to be created. Simply put, the world we live in is a complicated spider web. A very large one at that and even if you had the power to change everything without the knowledge on the "how to" or the "what to" it is useless. I haven't even started to delve into the complications of getting rid of death, war, and hunger. Even if you could stop death you have to then figure out how to deal with overpopulation. War cannot be stopped without changing human emotions. Getting rid of jealousy, anger, and hatred would be a start. But if you do that then those beings aren't human any more? Are they? My attention span is starting to wear and I'm starting to become annoyed just thinking about this. Point is that all scenarios of a perfect world lead to this one. At least that's how I feel.
But this isn't about how feel. Please tell me what you think of this thing that we call life.
