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Posted by rene on 10/17/2015, 8:19 pm, in reply to "Re: The Bias"
50.52.15.x
: Taken as a whole, I view the entire
: creation/destruction/gain/loss dynamic as
: beneficent.
So do I - and if that is what you've been pointing to all this time then the only difference between our ideas was semantic and this decade-long debate has been resolved. (-:
--Previous Message--
: "It might be... that every change is one
: of equal creation and destruction."
:
: Oh, more than "might be," I think,
: rene. For sure. There's no gain without
: corresponding loss. At every level.
:
: At the physical level, every growth of every
: cell is accompanied by a corresponding loss
: or displacement somewhere else. Were this
: not the case, human beings would be 3,000
: feet tall and the flowers in my garden would
: have long ago smothered the entire planet.
: Animals foraging for food trample underfoot
: countless billions -- trillions -- of
: insects. There's no gain, anywhere, without
: corresponding loss.
:
: At the psychological level, how could I
: recognize my joys were it not for the
: presence of my sorrows? What "joy
: marker" would there be there? My
: sorrows are essential if I am to experience
: joy.
:
: Taken as a whole, I view the entire
: creation/destruction/gain/loss dynamic as
: beneficent.
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