In an ever changing world, what is the one thing you can rely on?

Question

Feeling philosophical today

Answer 1

My cats making me smile....

Answer 2

Rely on for what, security, stability, survival, entertainment, support or an immutable truth?

Not even death is certain, yet highly probable. Nothing is certain. Just because our experience of reality has settled repeated patterns through its ostensibly recurring and repetitive nature, does not logically make our reality a stable or fixed one. For all I know, tomorrow never comes, or I will find gravity to have vanished, or my entire experience of reality to be completely altered.

The chance of this happening seems infinitesimal in a world seemingly repetitive and constant in its manner of transformation, yet the future remains an unknown, for now and the present our prison, for now. Maybe that you can hold unto, for now.

Answer 3

The faculty that senses a rapid change all around, and then the sensibility to deal with it, to benefit from it, to enjoy it – an eye to see and a heart to bear what I see is all I would need and then will be all that I would rely upon.

Change is an expression of life, but the world around us in grips of constant change can be a very daunting place, it can be frightening, and formidable. Change often makes people feel as if they are being left behind, as if they are left in the time past, irrelevant, obsolete and obscure, as if change is running over them, as if time is running through them.

The change that is the cause for the world to be, the essence visible in things, is the essence of time - what would be the time and the world in it if the hands on the face of clock would not turn and if the Earth would not turn and roll round the Sun, and the Moon round the Earth?

Then what would I rely upon if everything that I can ever call mine is but in a state of constant change, a state of endless transition, the grips of constant flow of time towards uncertain dominions of the future? What shall I then call to be mine, something that would not go; something that would stay, even when all is gone past my helpless eyes? I can see all this and I can think, but thoughts, like the spectacle in my eyes, are also transitory, shifting and changing in changing times.

But all this is not just in vain, all the hurt and all the pain, all the things that we wish and long to have in the heart, for there are more things to notice. The change in change visible to an eager and watchful eye: a marvellous spectacle to behold, a grand carnival parading past, or a mystifying masquerade to see.

The winter when loosens its icy grips, and the processions of spring come into motion, bare branches of skeletal tree are decked with countless leaves, the flowers bloom into fullest grace, the ripened fruits in delectable hues with their sweet golden juice, the nesting birds flutter softly as their hungry nestlings shrill, and the gentle summer breeze of laziest of the summer day pass rustling through fragrant grass.

But alas! All things change and pass from one state of being into the next, the spring passes its lushness and charm on to summer day that in turn give way to the fall, the onslaught of the approaching seasons still, their voices can be heard, the jarring crackles of decay, the distant echoing drums death, the receding march of an yearly procession comes to an end, and dormant life dreams again the coming of the next spring.

I would simply rely upon what my wondrous eye can see.

Answer 4

That change is inevitable, that creative means will never end, only alter and enhance, become stronger with more meanings. And more questions to ask with more answers given. The seekers will keep seeking, even after they've found what they've always looked for. That the mind of man will continue to expand as far as the universe keeps expanding. That once we all know that our thoughts create, we will recreate the whole. Life's meanings will never come to a dead end with one big sought after answer-it will never come.

Answer 5

The only thing you can rely on is that the world is changing.

Answer 6

You can rely on the fact that changes will continue to happen. You should also be able to rely on yourself, but only if you think you can. And hopefully you can rely on your hope.

Answer 7

Myself

Answer 8

I have a simple proposition.... you can rely on the manipulating lever based on the fact that people will always be concerned with self interest.... this is as much a reality of life as death is, just can't change.

Answer 9

Yes

Answer 10

Change

Answer 11

Permanent sense of the sublime and the wonderful in creation - death will only bring you closer to this as all that is physical and imperfect will be dissolved.

England cricket team to disappoint again :-)