Comments on: The Meaning of Life http://hans.gerwitz.com/2007/02/11/the-meaning-of-life.html?nucrss=1 The soliloquy of Hans Gerwitz Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:37:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Kurt http://hans.gerwitz.com/2007/02/11/the-meaning-of-life.html#comment-1824 Kurt Sun, 18 Mar 2007 03:15:13 +0000 http://hans.gerwitz.com/2007/02/11/the-meaning-of-life.html#comment-1824 I keep a message on piece of paper in my pocket: "The universe was created for me." In the other pocket: "I am nothing but dust." I keep a message on piece of paper in my pocket: “The universe was created for me.”
In the other pocket: “I am nothing but dust.” ]]> By: Hans http://hans.gerwitz.com/2007/02/11/the-meaning-of-life.html#comment-1763 Hans Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:41:41 +0000 http://hans.gerwitz.com/2007/02/11/the-meaning-of-life.html#comment-1763 If when you step back far enough (in either time or distance), everything eventually disappears in the noise. So if you're going to concern yourself with eternity, then you'll eventually find some scale at which you're meaningless. If when you step back far enough (in either time or distance), everything eventually disappears in the noise.

So if you’re going to concern yourself with eternity, then you’ll eventually find some scale at which you’re meaningless.

]]> By: Paul Martin http://hans.gerwitz.com/2007/02/11/the-meaning-of-life.html#comment-1761 Paul Martin Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:41:52 +0000 http://hans.gerwitz.com/2007/02/11/the-meaning-of-life.html#comment-1761 Sounds good to me, in the near term. But what do you make of the sun burning out, the law of entropy, the universe either expanding forever as all the stars burn out or else recollapsing back on itself like some kind of recycling bin? Sounds good to me, in the near term.

But what do you make of the sun burning out, the law of entropy, the universe either expanding forever as all the stars burn out or else recollapsing back on itself like some kind of recycling bin?

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