Nihilism vs. Existentialism

[LadyShea]

Originally Posted by viscousmemories

On a chain of infinite width and length, how important is any given link?

I prefer a tapestry metaphor to a chain. When future peoples look back on the tapestry, maybe your thread has a unique color, or perhaps the threads it is surrounded by form an interesting pattern. Maybe, of course, your thread and your area on the tapestry is all neutrally colored, but it still fills the spaces between the cool stuff, and has its place in the whole.

Another example, let's take January 11th 1982. That day no longer exists, I can't remember who I talked to, what I ate, where I went, what I watched on TV...nothing memorable about that date. Does that mean it didn't exist or wasn't important? Not to me, because it got me to the next memorable date, the next pretty color on my tapestry