What does ontology imply about our significance in eternity?
Part II of II
... If we set our purpose for existence high, we will rise to the occasion.
And what of eternity?
If we are to move from here to there, from life to eternity, we would carry with us what we know.
What do we want to take with us into eternity?
Do we want to take the perception that we have no significance in eternity, or do we want to take the perception that we have great significance?
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Nobody would dispute that we have some form of potential as individuals and as a species.
Lowly goals elicit lowly behavior.
This lowly behavior is simply the confusion generated from having no direction towards which to direct one’s energy since one has already attained one’s goals.
If on the other hand, one sets goals that are slightly beyond reach, the energy one has will never lack direction.
This is not to say all goals should be of such a nature, for such action undoubtedly would generate defeatism.
But the loftier goals, the ultimate goals, the understanding of our connection and significance to eternity and the Causative Force needs to be lofty enough so that all individuals, human or otherwise, cannot ever attain it in total, for they will assume they have the right to control all others that have not attained it.
Refusing to accept our significance to eternity leaves us where we are.
Is that so bad?
Perhaps we could better answer that question if we would put ourselves in the position of other life forms in the heavens looking in our direction in order to see what type of neighbors we would make.
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