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Sometimes life is just disappointing: Situations are uncomfortable and inconvenient, but no change to the Status Quo is in order. Any such changes would present even more difficulties, possibly more than had previously existed. Becoming jaded is a process that is inescapable and inexplicable, or so it seems. Thoughts of maturation envelop the mind and the troubles that come along with it. A displacement is inevitable and no plans for the future are ever for certain. Promising absolutes of forever and never or always or will and won't are completely absurd.
A belief in fate of sorts seems comforting. If the coin that is flipped were in the exact same situation every time: every molecule with the same position relative to everything else, the same forces applied, the same moment of stopping, the result would be constant, no? Would this then be applicable to every other aspect of life? If the same set of chemicals mixed together just so every time, the result would be the same. Thoughts are no more than chemical signals, so would it stand to reason that the same relationship between everything bears the same result, the same impulses created, the same nerves stimulated, the same decisions made. Existence is preset, but not by any intelligent being, but due to the nature of how things relate to one another. Everything is a chain reaction; every action influences countless others, both directly and indirectly.
When do we draw the line between "what nature intended" and what humans do? Everything is a result of nature: the way bees dance to communicate, the way bears hibernate each winter, the way foxes eat rabbits to survive. So aren't humans, too part of nature? We were born just as any other animal and we behaved much like them as well in the sense of struggling to survive. Chimpanzees use simple tools to benefit themselves, just like humans. The only difference is that human development allowed for a vast improvement of the quality and quantity of tools. It was nature that told us to do it; we had to survive. We learned to manipulate our environment to better our conditions. We built highways and towers and rockets and houses and clocks and swimming pools and stages and factories to better our quality of life. Is this still natures will? Are we not just trying to keep ourselves as far from extinction as possible in accordance with all the instincts that many animals, including ourselves, have pre-programmed into our brains?
A belief in fate of sorts seems comforting. If the coin that is flipped were in the exact same situation every time: every molecule with the same position relative to everything else, the same forces applied, the same moment of stopping, the result would be constant, no? Would this then be applicable to every other aspect of life? If the same set of chemicals mixed together just so every time, the result would be the same. Thoughts are no more than chemical signals, so would it stand to reason that the same relationship between everything bears the same result, the same impulses created, the same nerves stimulated, the same decisions made. Existence is preset, but not by any intelligent being, but due to the nature of how things relate to one another. Everything is a chain reaction; every action influences countless others, both directly and indirectly.
When do we draw the line between "what nature intended" and what humans do? Everything is a result of nature: the way bees dance to communicate, the way bears hibernate each winter, the way foxes eat rabbits to survive. So aren't humans, too part of nature? We were born just as any other animal and we behaved much like them as well in the sense of struggling to survive. Chimpanzees use simple tools to benefit themselves, just like humans. The only difference is that human development allowed for a vast improvement of the quality and quantity of tools. It was nature that told us to do it; we had to survive. We learned to manipulate our environment to better our conditions. We built highways and towers and rockets and houses and clocks and swimming pools and stages and factories to better our quality of life. Is this still natures will? Are we not just trying to keep ourselves as far from extinction as possible in accordance with all the instincts that many animals, including ourselves, have pre-programmed into our brains?