What is your idea of a perfect world?
Is perfection feasible?
Through human effort? Divine?
What sacrifices would you make to create a perfect world?
I want my life to be the beautiful and complex answer to a simple question – How can I do the greatest possible good?
4 comments:
A- The closest to a perfect world that I can imagine right now is one where everyone believes in and acts with unconditional love.
B- Noted that you didn't say possible, but feasible. Dictionary.com lists three definitions.
1. capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: a feasible plan. (Because I believe in the intrinsic goodness of man, I would like to say this is a capable idea. However, I think my belief in intrinsic good is a conscious unreality chosen for my personal utopia.)
2. probable; likely: a feasible theory. (Therefore, I think this perfect world is not probable or likely.)
3. suitable: a road feasible for travel. (But hell ya, it is the best road for travel. However, clearly the one less traveled.
C- If my utopia were to happen, it would have to be through human effort, though I think many humans would draw on their belief of the divine in order to accomplish it. I firmly choose humans because I think the divine already has given us the tools.
D- If I believed I alone could change the world, I would make any and the ultimate sacrifice. (Wait... is this whole thing a reflection on Jesus?) However, since I seem currently to have a ho hum attitude on this feasibility, I would say that I would make many reasonable sacrifices to impact as much of the world around me as I can. But then, they wouldn't be sacrifices if unconditional love already ruled me world.
On that last note, interesting idea that your actions would be sacrifices in this world, but not in a perfect one.
How heavily does the context of an action play on what kind of action it is?
If one act would be a sacrifice in one world and not in another...
Is something given always a gift?
Is something misplaced always lost?
Is something found always gained?
Interseting...
I think as you add or subtract a divine element to events, they gain and loose significance...
Well, my misspelling impacted your response. I meant to say "already ruled my world," which I had confirmed above. I try to live within this rule of unconditional love, so therefore any "sacrifices" I would make to impact those around me, would not indeed be sacrifices at all.
What a clever little misunderstanding! :P
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