Ork+(E+Block)

Sangwoo Song ** Existence is meaningful, everything is IMPORTANT <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: '맑은 고딕'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-themecolor: text1; msoansilanguage: EN; msoasciithemefont: major-latin; msobidifontfamily: Helvetica; msobidilanguage: AR-SA; msofareastlanguage: KO; msofareastthemefont: major-latin; msohansithemefont: major-latin; msothemecolor: text1; text-align: center;">An old, blind, Scylding priest. Studies theories behind religion To DISPROVE “The world and everything in it is unplanned accident, existence is meaningless; the past is irrelevant; nothing matters.”
 * ORK
 * Thesis**

Everything is meaningful, Everthing exists for a reason. Ork states that in order for BEAUTY to exist, there needs a constrast. Even ugliness has a meaning for its existence. The ugliness exists to create the BEAUTY. Basically without something being ugly, people won't know that something else os beautiful.
 * Argument 1**

"The nature of evil may be epitomized, therefore, in two simple but horrible and holy propositions: 'Things fade' and 'Alternatives exclude.' Such is His mystery: **that beauty requires contrast**, and that discord is fundamental to the creation of new intensities of feeling. Ultimate wisdom, I have come to perceive, lies in the perception that the solemnity and grandeur of the universe rise through the slow process of unification in which the diversities of existence are utilized, and nothing, //nothing // is lost." **(Page 132~133)**
 * Quote 1**

Existence is meaningful because of death. Time would destroy everything no matter how holy or evil. Like how Ork said in the argument 1, everything has a constrast. They are meaningful to each other, because if they basically define what each other is. If death is something meaningful, then existence would also be meaningful. Basically without having a life, there could not death.
 * Argument 2**

"O the ultimate evil in the temporal world is deeper than any specific evil, such as hatred or suffering, or death! The ultimate evil is that Time is perpetual perishing, and being actual involves elimination." **(Page 132**)
 * Quote 2**

How can people know something is beautiful is there was no ugliness? How can death exists is there was no life?
 * Statement**

Some people say everything is ultimately meaningless. That is, existence is also meaningless. However that life is meaningless, is not necessarily true. In fact, when we consider how beauty cannot exist without ugliness, and ugliness cannot exist without beauty, life is something meaningful.

Even something meaningless could exist because there is something meaningful. For example, if there is wasn't anything meaningless, how would people know something is meaningful? How would people know something is meaningless, if there wasn't anthing this meanigful? Correlation exists for every contradicting ideas. I, the Ork believe time is the ultimate evil in the world. Time destroys everything, causing death. Life is meaningful for death, because death cannot exist without life. My ideas seems to directly contradict the Dragon's idea. Therefore, it seems like there is a meaning to the dragon's idea as well.

Through reading the letter from John Gardner, I was a bit confused by what John Gardner did in his letter. His view was diversified from meaningful to the hopeless life. John Gardner basically writes about how Beowulf’s life was short of meaningless compared to others, because he wasn’t able to get anything than fame, and also he left his men to die. All his fortune was meaningless after his death. His letter seems to demonstrate how life could be meaningful, and hopeless.
 * John Gardner**