2014-08-19
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Blase Pascal famously said that all of us living right now, and the condition that we find ourselves living through,
this crazy roller coaster that we're on, he refers to it as the supreme paradox creation.
Man is the great paradox of creation.
He said that as humans,
we constantly live in a state of both the highest grandeur and the deepest misery, simultaneously.
But why?
What is it about man that could possibly account for that sort of variance?
I mean, he's obviously calling us out as a species, right?
He didn't say living creatures on planet earth or this way.
He said, man is the great paradox of creation.
Why did he say that?
Well, to fully understand where he's coming from,
we need to set the stage and get a little perspective on what sort of world Pascal was living in and what sort of person Pascal was.
We'll gain that perspective through the show today and near the end of the show,
we'll come back to that famous quote, and it's going to make a lot more sense to us at that time.
So, blaze Pascal.