Do you believe perfection CAN be achieved?
Why, or why not?X_jshawty18_X
I don’t believe in perfection. Oh I believe in the ideal of perfection, but I do not believe that perfection can exist for long. That’s not to say that it’s not something to strive for, but that it’s an ideal, not something that truly exists in any way.
Perfection is something which if it did exist would probably create a reality destroying paradox. Like matter and antimatter or going back in time and killing your grandparents or meeting yourself. Perfection might be achieved for an instant before the nature of our imperfect reality would contrive to destroy it. Have you ever heard of that “perfect moment?” What if a moment is all you get? You achieve physical perfection for one instant without ever knowing you’ve done it, then you start aging, your cells deteriorating, you grow old, you die.
Perfection is tenuous at best and easily destroyed by the smallest thing. Say you succeeded in achieving permanent perfection. Once perfection was achieved, you’d no longer be motivated to do anything. Why would you have any children? Children are the constant attempt to perpetuate and improve upon a concept, humanity. If you were perfect, there would no longer be a need to reproduce. Therefore by achieving perfection, you would become an evolutionary dead end and therefore invalidate your perfection. Pretty ironic, eh?
So perfection cannot exist because by achieving perfection, you’d almost certainly invalidate it in the next instant. Even if it could be achieved and kept, it might not be what another being would consider perfection. They say one man’s heaven is another man’s hell, and one man’s garbage is another man’s treasure. There’s no guarantee that what you strive for and perceive to be perfection would be considered perfection by anyone but yourself.
So in short, perfection is ephemeral and short lived. Can it be achieved? Maybe for an instant, but even if you could live in that moment forever, it might be something you’d come to regret… or not if you lost all perception of time in your perfect instant. The quest for perfection is not by any means a waste of time. The act of striving for perfection gives you goals; it makes you attempt to better yourself. Striving for perfection gives you purpose, but achieving perfection deprives your life of meaning.
March 25th
This is the Hilaria (festival of joy) or Lady Day. The resurrection of Attis and the onset of spring is celebrated with a sacramental meal and a day of joy and feasting. Those who castrated themselves become Gallicocks, dressing in women’s clothes and wearing perfumed oils.
Lady Day became a strong tradition in Cornish and Welsh areas. Though the date varies, April 24th or Mid July, today’s date dominates. During Medieval times, this holy day was moved to April 4th and renamed in honor of St. Mark in an effort to break the pagan influence of the holiday.
Eggs are buried in fields in Cornwall for fertility, everything is decorated with flowers, and there is feasting and dancing. Looking into a pool of rainwater while drinking fresh milk allowed young women to scry for a future mate. Dairy products were a major food of the feast.
A woman who gives birth today is considered blessed by the goddess. The afterbirth is sacred and is offered back to the goddess in sacrifice. The famous Men an Tol, standing stones, in Cornwall is a site of fertility rituals for women having trouble conceiving. The woman passes herself nine times clockwise through a natural hole in the stones.
This is one the days upon which it was asserted the world was created.
Pope Innocent III established the Inquisition in 1199.
On the 14th day of Pachons, the Day of cutting out of the tongue of Sobek is recalled.
Comments (2)
That sounded like the plot to a science fiction novel.
I agree with you completely. I think perfection exists only as an idea–and even if it did exist, humans would find some way to destroy it.
I like your answer a lot. I would say something similar