... We can choose to go screaming into that dark night or gently except oblivion. Either way, the small eddy of human existence and consciousness will  be extinguished as it inevitably drains into the mainsstream of universal forces,  never again  to be replicated as an identical eddy down down stream. If one is a pessimist. Maybe....

...> We can choose to go screaming into that dark night or gently except oblivion. Either way, the small eddy of human existence and consciousness will  be extinguished as it inevitably drains into the mainsstream of universal forces,  never again  to be replicated as an identical eddy down down stream. If one is a pessimist. Maybe. But in ...

...: We can choose to go screaming into that dark night or gently except oblivion. Either way, the small eddy of human existence and consciousness will  be extinguished as it inevitably drains into the mainsstream of universal forces,  never again  to be replicated as an identical eddy down down stream. If one is a pessimist. Maybe. But in my book, ...

...> I find it hard to accept this. I would almost put it the other way round: everything in the universe is shot through with some degree of sensitivity/awareness (in the form of.... Either way, the small eddy of human existence and consciousness will  be extinguished as it inevitably drains into the mainsstream of universal forces,  never again  to be replicated as an ...

... here that some deus contrived to "create"anything. Everything is entirely natural. My point is the fact ...universe, elements, earth, life, intelligence - suggests an inevitability about the whole thing. I surmise that the..., that the outcome we witness was indeed inevitable. There is a corollory to this: if ...I would say that such a pattern of inevitabilities cannot just end with the dead end of...

...> I find it hard to accept this. I would almost put it the other way round: everything in the universe is shot through with some degree of sensitivity/awareness (in the form of.... Either way, the small eddy of human existence and consciousness will  be extinguished as it inevitably drains into the mainsstream of universal forces,  never again  to be replicated as an ...

... I find it hard to accept this. I would almost put it the other way round: everything in the universe is shot through with some degree of sensitivity/awareness (in the form of.... Either way, the small eddy of human existence and consciousness will  be extinguished as it inevitably drains into the mainsstream of universal forces,  never again  to be replicated as an identical ...

...<donstockba...@hotmail.com> wrote: Meaning...what? That the universe toiled/is fine tuned to produce us? I find it hard to accept this. I would almost put it the other way round: everything in the universe is shot through with some degree of sensitivity/awareness (in the form of the various "forces" etc) and we are nothing more than a refinment of these forces. The ...

... I find it hard to accept this. I would almost put it the other way round: everything in the universe is shot through with some degree of sensitivity/awareness (in the form of.... Either way, the small eddy of human existence and consciousness will  be extinguished as it inevitably drains into the mainsstream of universal forces,  never again  to be replicated as an identical ...

...> I find it hard to accept this. I would almost put it the other way round: everything in the universe is shot through with some degree of sensitivity/awareness (in the form of ...oblivion. Either way, the small eddy of human existence and consciousness will be extinguished as it inevitably drains into the mainsstream of universal forces, never again to be replicated as an identical eddy ...