Has it ever struck you that the world as we know it today will one day cease to exist ? I mean ofcourse you know it. It’s a mathematical certainity that the world will come to an end one day. Everyone knows about it.
True. But has the implication of this mathematical certainity hit you with its complete force? I was watching Ice Age 2 the other day when the realization occurred to me. It made me stop dead in my tracks.
The earth’s demise would mean the demise of everything that the human race has acquired and will acquire in these thousands of years. Our art, our knowledge, our cultures, even our gods. All of it would be lost, perhaps forever.
And my thoughts fast forward into the day that will be the last day of the earth. How will the end be? Will it be sudden – like a global nuclear holocaust? Or a slow, torturous end due to air poisoning, heat or drought? Or perhaps the onset of a global hyper-climatic change?
What would it feel like to be the last of the human race? The consciousness of it would be more painful than death itself. Would our last children mourn the loss of their immediate relations? Or would they mourn the demise of everything achieved by the human race in thousands of years? Would it be a fight against time to save all one can – of human knowledge, heritage, history, science – before escaping to some safe haven in the universe ?
Only time has answers to these questions. But this realization of the mortality of earth itself, make me feel terribly puny and inconsequential.
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Interesting thoughts!
Well, then let us all strive towards attaining the immortality of our Ego, of attaining complete freedom, of becoming a co-worker with our Maker, of becoming His viceregent on this Earth, and then perhaps, we could co-operate with Him and save His and ours Earth.
i read somewhere that the knowledge of death is more painful than death itself....the knowledge of the fact that thr will be time wen everything ends.....but,(yes thr is a ever irritating bu but)...with every end is another begining.....maybe the last person isnt the last person after all....who is to knw?
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