the sun will still rise tomorrow
Research is the exploration of knowledge. This could be in the midst of old knowledge or at the frontier towards new. The question is whether or not research need contribute towards knowledge such that society benefits. The following essay will argue that the sun will still rise tomorrow, despite whether or not you contribute anything towards anything,
The point of this paragraph is to argue that you are not as important as you think you are. The following three points will explain why scholars and researchers need not be concerned with whether their work makes a contribution to the larger society, nor should they pursue their individual interests, however unusual or idiosyncratic those interests may seem. Firstly, "the righteous will live by faith." Unfortunately, with our own free will, we are not obliged to walk a righteous route and have the freedom to be as selfish as we’d please. This could lead scholars and researchers toward monetary objectives and/or objectives of prestige and recognition; video games, for instance, is widely driven by profit and largely recognized through pop-culture and the media. As righteous people, they are, however, living for justice and morality, regardless of how much they’ll fall short. Leading me to my next point, “faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.“ In other words, to be righteous is to live by faith, which means nothing if it is not accompanied by action. Finally, whether you choose to be a selfish or righteous scholar, the world will continue to spin and the sun will still rise tomorrow. The above paragraph argued that it is not the contribution that deserves the attention, rather it is the faith of a person in doing what they believe is righteous, actions that are believed to be an individual’s calling (and individual’s passion) allied with righteousness; the connection of this point to my thesis is that it is neither our contribution that matters nor our own passions (whether selfish or not), because in the end it is a matter of faith which may or may not amount to anything apparent, tangible, or gratifying. “Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.”
In conclusion, we are not driven by our contributions, nor our passions; instead, faith is all that should concern us, as artists, scientists, athletes, scholars, researchers, and video game developers. For if it is righteousness that we live for, then we must have living faith which is accompanied by actions (actions of research, engineering, painting, charity, teaching, etc.), but if it is ourselves that we are trying to gratify, then it’s not like we’d have mattered to the world anyhow.
“Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil. Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins."
The point of this paragraph is to argue that you are not as important as you think you are. The following three points will explain why scholars and researchers need not be concerned with whether their work makes a contribution to the larger society, nor should they pursue their individual interests, however unusual or idiosyncratic those interests may seem. Firstly, "the righteous will live by faith." Unfortunately, with our own free will, we are not obliged to walk a righteous route and have the freedom to be as selfish as we’d please. This could lead scholars and researchers toward monetary objectives and/or objectives of prestige and recognition; video games, for instance, is widely driven by profit and largely recognized through pop-culture and the media. As righteous people, they are, however, living for justice and morality, regardless of how much they’ll fall short. Leading me to my next point, “faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.“ In other words, to be righteous is to live by faith, which means nothing if it is not accompanied by action. Finally, whether you choose to be a selfish or righteous scholar, the world will continue to spin and the sun will still rise tomorrow. The above paragraph argued that it is not the contribution that deserves the attention, rather it is the faith of a person in doing what they believe is righteous, actions that are believed to be an individual’s calling (and individual’s passion) allied with righteousness; the connection of this point to my thesis is that it is neither our contribution that matters nor our own passions (whether selfish or not), because in the end it is a matter of faith which may or may not amount to anything apparent, tangible, or gratifying. “Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.”
In conclusion, we are not driven by our contributions, nor our passions; instead, faith is all that should concern us, as artists, scientists, athletes, scholars, researchers, and video game developers. For if it is righteousness that we live for, then we must have living faith which is accompanied by actions (actions of research, engineering, painting, charity, teaching, etc.), but if it is ourselves that we are trying to gratify, then it’s not like we’d have mattered to the world anyhow.
“Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil. Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins."
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