In response to Nevir…
“Change is unstoppable.”
“It is a constant that never ends;”
“like the wind, you cannot stop change, nor slow it nor speed it up. You simply must allow change to flow at its needed pace.”
- I disagree, since wind can be stopped, slowed down and sped up. And what is this ‘needed pace’ you speak of?
"Like breath, we need change. "
- ??? Breath needs change? I always thought breath needed air, given anything else long enough would kill us. Do you mean pace of breathing? Can we truly say that our pace of breathing NEEDS change?
“The stagnation of life will only result in a cesspool of parody: nothing new, nothing old, simply the same.”
- But if change is unstoppable than stagnation cannot really ever happen. How can nothing be new and nothing old? Did time stop? Nothing is simply the same, for atoms are always moving.
“Life would be the one endless vision, from birth to death, of the same sights.”
- But no site is the same, everything changes in every moment.
“The only constant in life is change.”
- I agree, but what are we really saying here?
“We cannot count on the sun, death, not even taxes. Taxes are not always there. Death doesn’t follow you. The sun will one day burn out, ending the light. But that is change.”
- I agree…mostly, but again, what are we really saying here? What I don’t agree with necessarily, is death, how do you know it changes? Are we all not born through the same process of sperm and an egg? In the same way do we not all die the same death?
“All things: death, birth, life, love, and beauty; power, music, literature, history, and faith; all things will change. Change is a force within all things, as God is a force within each of us.”
- you draw a correlation between change and God, interesting, since God is seen as unchanging. How do you explain this paradox?
“Change flows through our veins, our hearts, our brains, our bodies, the way a river flows to the sea. It flows to its given end point, taking each bend, dam, waterfall, cascade, whirlpool, and rapids in time. In its due time, each molecule of water will reach that sea. The path changes, but still it reaches its destination. And it will always be so.”
-If change is in everything than how can you know that each molecule of water will reach the sea? Since change is statistical and can never be counted on as you said previously? What if a dam is built or a drout occurs and the water is evaporated? What if the planet blows up and the water is dirpersed in space? This puts a damper on your statement. If it will still reach it’s destination and it will always be so, you are making a statement about something that will never change, especially at the end of your post, this statement completely refutes the rest of your post. How can anything always be so if change is in all things?
What’s your take?