Doom
Huginn: I fly ahead, and I see that trouble brews.
Muninn: You always have, and I remember all troubles, and all dooms, and in the end they are nothing.
H: But there must one day be a doom to end all dooms. It is the nature of things.
M: I fly over the empirical, and in that dread empire, I see that there is no definite nature of things.
H: Except that they can be thought about, and thus understood, and thus controlled.
M: Or not.
two ravens whispered at 11:26 AM
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If there is no definite nature of things, then it follows that they can never be fully understood. how then are we to control what we do not understand? Physics does predict the doom to end all dooms - the heat death as predicted by the second law of thermodynamics. Yet it is inconceivable that humanity might last so long to see that, and even to see the death of our own sun, which will be before such heat death.
Yet who knows the nature of such things? For it is inconceivable for one to attempt to cognize the omniscient nature of God. Such attempts are much futility.
As it is said.
"A man can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in his work. This too, I see, is from the hand of God, for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment?" Ecc 2:24-25
Perhaps it is not given unto us to see these things fulfilled. In all likelihood, our own desires and rationalism would tell us that we would not desire to see such a thing come to pass.
-- Ben Soh
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