Post by moviemouth on Nov 30, 2020 4:17:54 GMT
Nov 30, 2020 4:05:13 GMT gw said:
Is all you are saying is that the way reality is in this universe makes it more interesting than if we lived in a non-existent "perfect" world? And that if the world had came about in a different way, then this reality wouldn't exist? I would agree with that obviously.
What would a perfect world even be? If we lived in this imaginary world wouldn't even know it was boring or that we were missing anything? It might be impossible that a world like that could even exist.
Am I glad we don't live in a world like that? Yes, but only because it sounds very boring from the perception of someone living in a non-perfect world.
If this is what you are talking about then you wrote it out way more complicated than it needed to be.
A perfect universe would be like the town in the movie Interstate 60 where there's a drug that makes you blissfully happy but you just end up craving the drug and don't have the freedom to feel happy as a result of good choices. I'm having trouble expressing an important thought but I'll give it a try: There is an importance of choice that exists due to the complexity of the outcomes due to compromise in a less than ideal universe, and that lack of ideality gives us a purpose beyond mere abstraction by giving us a sort of sensory and conscious quality that allows us a perspective that a more perfect one needn't have. I'm not sure that I phrased that well enough, and I suspect that it may be a very flawed idea even if phrased correctly.
I understand all that. Meaning that after I figured out your initial point, the response above makes sense.
The disconnect between me and you is that you find more meaning in it than I do. I often make bad choices, knowing they are bad choices and just not caring. There is of course reasons for why I do this, but I am not willing to get into that right now.
I am hanging on to the little bit in this life that I give a shit about.
Maybe I am off base here and this has nothing to do with what you are talking about.

