If you care for your life how can you not see that other's lives as well as the welfare of Earth are a cycle?

Question

If you care for your life how can you not see that other's lives as well as the welfare of Earth are a cycle?

Answer 1

Who said I didn't see it that way?

Answer 2

Do you walk to school or do you carry your lunch? There's nothing to answer in your question.

Francis Schaeffer says, "History is linear, a uniformity of cause and effect in an open system."

I can see how it looks as though history repeats itself, but any action must have an antecedent cause (otherwise we could run our cars on perpetual motion gadgets).

Posit a materialistic view of the universe, changing "open system" to "closed system" above and you have a whole different set of problems, none of which, still, are cyclical. Let's suppose there was an explosion that started the universe. One action led to another and another and another and after a very long time there stand you and I. I say to you, "Blip!" and you answer, "Blip, blip!"

My statement and your response were preprogrammed, as it were, by the chain of events that began at the time of the explosion. One thing led to another and another and another. Our brains developed and we produced language and responses. Free will does not exist because of the rule of antecedent cause.

But open the system up to an outside transcendent cause, and anything becomes possible — even the cyclical nature that you suggest. But everyday experience seems to strongly suggest a linear time space history.

Answer 3

yes its  a cicle but it will an end someday

it will be a straight line

Answer 4

Jeez, I never thought about it.  I don't know.