Paul Conti

Maybe it's not God playing dice with the universe, but it's God loading the dice in our favor if we'll only listen to

The truth that being destructive doesn't help or soothe anything, even in the person who thinks it will for themselves.

And that creativity and generativeness and kindness and compassion, doesn't that seem sort of analogous to the eddy current of counter entropy that has us here in the first place?

And I think that's where I pin meaning.

And that meaning then, going back to the initial question, is generated in us through emotion, through what we feel that leads us to feel something that is mysterious.

I don't know why I feel it.

I think it brings us back to the discussion that we were having before about what does it mean, like the challenges of trauma, right, and of overcoming.

And I think here we got to be careful with the language, right?

Because I would then say, let's take destruction, right, and separate it into two things, right?

Like one is

You say destruction is like the breaking down, the tearing down of something, right, versus a process that has malice in it, right?

So just like when we were talking about trauma and setbacks, things to overcome, and we'd say, okay, if you say, hey, you have it harder than the next person and you have more to overcome, right?

or someone put a barrier in front of you for you to overcome, that there can be a lot of growth in that, including the times when you don't know if you, gosh, can I do this, right?

Can I get over it, right?

We're saying like, that's challenge and something to overcome that's very positive.

But we're saying, but there's no benefit of like throwing a racial slur in there, right?

We're saying, because that's all bad.

Like that's not, even the prince says, I'm angry about that and I'm gonna overcome that.

It's like, that didn't need to be, that didn't make anything better, right?

If the person sees that and says, I'm going to overcome that, it makes things less worse, right?