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I find it’s far easier to just accept that everything is transient, and that our works and deeds are insignificant. You can’t fight entropy. Look on my works,
by madaxe_again 5y ago
I find it’s far easier to just accept that everything is transient, and that our works and deeds are insignificant. You can’t fight entropy.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
- rnoorda 5y agoOff-topic, but I remember feeling disappointed that Ozymandias was a Greek name for Ramses, probably the most famous pharaoh. There are still valuable lessons from the poem, but there was something beautiful to me about the idea of such an important leader fading into such obscurity that people don't even recognize his name.
- rags2riches 5y agoI don't agree with the unstated premise that only the eternal can be meaningful that is behind statements like "nothing matters anyway". What we do and how we live is all that can matter. That which is for ever and cannot change is of no matter to us.
- brundolf 5y agoI'm not passing a value judgement on whether it's a good or bad thing, I'm just saying it's a common thing in the human psyche