PHL 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Geologic Time Scale, Susan R. Wolf
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Believes that life is absurd, but the common arguments for why life is absurd are not valid. The standard arguments for absurdity appear therefore to fail as arguments. I believe they attempt to express something that is difficult to state yet fundamentally correct. Nothing we do will matter in a million years. But if that is the case, then by the same token, nothing that will be the case in a million years matters now. In particular, it does not matter now that in a million years nothing we do now will matter. We are tiny specks in and infinite vastness of the universe; our lives are mere instants even in a geological time scale, let alone a cosmic one; we will be dead any minute. One studies and works to earn money to pay for clothing, housing, entertainment, and food to sustain oneself from year to year to what final end? .
