This faith in progress

[The2ndWheel]

http://www.energybulletin.net/24607.html

Every culture has some distant place in space or time where it parks its dreams of a perfect world, and ours is no exception.

Devout Christians in the Middle Ages imagined a heaven somewhere off beyond the outermost sphere of the sky, where angels and blessed souls sang in perfect harmony in the presence of God, far from the discords of life in the lowly world of matter. Centuries before, the ancient Greeks sang of a Golden Age somewhere in the distant past when fields sprouted crops without human labor and the world was at peace under the rule of the old wise god Kronos.

We have our heaven and our Golden Age, too, but unlike most other cultures we put ours in the future, and tell ourselves that we’re moving closer to Paradise with every day that passes. Other cultures put their faith in gods or stars or cosmic cycles; we put ours in progress.

[Crandor]

1. And you put yours in the past, so quit pretending you're so superior nt

[The2ndWheel]

2. I don't think time is linear

So put that in your pipe and smoke it.

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[The2ndWheel]

4. No, but that's crazy in the funny way

Couldn't read the whole thing, but I do agree that the universe is made up of opposites.

If I had a site, it would be www.ihatehtheconceptoftime.com.

Either way, I do enjoy when we meet up around here. You make me think. You challenge my way of looking at and seeing the world. As long as we don't kill each other over it, no harm done.