Materialism (A mad world)

by BBella , Saturday, June 23, 2012, 00:01 (4535 days ago) @ dhw

BBELLA: Altho the world does appear to be in a mess, I believe there is an unseen balance always taking place in the universe, which includes our world (and all that IS). As balance rights itself, the eye of man may witness what appears to be chaos, pain, unfairness, destruction, etc. But as we know things are not always what they seem. 
> Balance is always being maintained by the universal flux and flow. As much as we would like to believe humans have been created [or evolved] above and beyond this order, it's very unlikely. What confuses us, I believe, is our perception of time.
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> Perhaps we're talking at cross purposes here. The mess I was referring to (and I think Tony was too) is war, starvation, disease, poverty, environmental and economic disaster.. Because of our advanced technology, this is on a colossal scale, and much of it is due to human incompetence and/or greed. Far from having been created or evolved above and beyond this particular order, we are in many areas of activity its makers. -Yes, I did know the mess you and Tony were referring to is war...etc. As I said, the world (our world) does appear to the human eye to be in an unbalanced mess. ->But if you're thinking of the life of the universe, our struggles are of course minuscule. As Beckett says: "The light gleams an instant, then it's night once more." I think our (human) world is grossly out of balance, which is why I say it's in a mess. I also regard this life as real, and am deeply aware that it may be all we shall ever have. For people who believe in some form of eternal bliss, there may be a very different pair of scales to weigh things.-I too regard this life as real. Even without the belief of some form of eternal bliss, I believe the universal flux and flow, ie scales, are always finding its balance. Of course our personal/global pain and suffering causes us to care less about the scales of balance and the flux and flow, nevertheless, we can witness it universally and we humans are not outside of the balance keeping. As I said before, it is only "time" that doesn't allow us to view the universal balance taking place in all things. Yet, we can get a glimpse of it the longer records are kept and observed.