In the basic bones of the universe, the material world is deconstructing.
It is a little more complicated than it might seem, but it seems to me that failure is woven into the fabric of the universe. Everyone in the Bible seems to have failed. I know this sounds like I am in a state of depression, but I think I would be thinking the same if I was euphoric. It seems like the universe is decomposing rather than evolving. God created a world and a creature who was capable of falling and did. He came to save us and did it by dying in agony on the cross. His disciples whom he had taught morning noon and night for at least three years simply gave up and went home as if he hadn’t existed. Only when he returned in a different form, was he able to get them up and going. I’m not sure where this is taking me, but it seems that for us all, failure is inevitable and a constant condition. Napoleon, Caesar, Alexander the Great, King David, all seemed so heroic as long as you cut and paste their lives.
I am not sure this is pessimistic. I think that only failure will drop us into the arms of God. Only an experience of the failure of material existence, the futility of it can prepare us for the other.
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