Zaehet Strife
Well-Known Member
I think the ultimate result of this is religion/theology, comes from ignorance... from not knowing. If Fear springs from perception, and that perception may be from either ignorance or understanding, couldn't we agree that what we fear most, is what we do not know? None of us knows if there is a god, among many many other unanswerable questions pertaining to existence and the origin of it. Since these are questions we will never know, and it appears as if we will never know these things... that is a fucking scary thing to think about, perhaps the scariest of all.
This is why i think so many cling to spiritual fantasies, because of fear... and its so very hard to explain, because false hopes, false dreams and faith... hide the fear, push it aside so one may forget about it. Except that the fear doesn't go away, because the truth of the matter is that you do not know... and as much as you try to push it away, its staring right at your face every moment, of every day.
The fact is, that you don't know, and it is scary... but that does not mean you have to be paralyzed by the fear, you can look it straight in the face and say hey man, just because i don't know what the fuck is going on right now... doesn't mean i have to lie to myself and tell myself that i do, that would just bring me further away from the truth that i so value, cherish and have been searching for this whole time.
Just because there is no inherent or universal meaning or purpose in existence and life, does not mean that we cant give ourselves our own purpose, our own meaning. To love, to play, to be happy... to share our fears and our joys. we have the ability to give our own lives our own meaning...
Don't ever take any others meaning for your own.
"science can tell us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive to many things of very great importance in the universe.
Theology and metaphysics on the other hand, induces the dogmatic belief that we have knowledge, where in fact we have ignorance, and by doing so generates a kind of impertinent insolence towards the universe."
-Bertrand Russell
This is all just my idea, take or leave whatever you want.
This is why i think so many cling to spiritual fantasies, because of fear... and its so very hard to explain, because false hopes, false dreams and faith... hide the fear, push it aside so one may forget about it. Except that the fear doesn't go away, because the truth of the matter is that you do not know... and as much as you try to push it away, its staring right at your face every moment, of every day.
The fact is, that you don't know, and it is scary... but that does not mean you have to be paralyzed by the fear, you can look it straight in the face and say hey man, just because i don't know what the fuck is going on right now... doesn't mean i have to lie to myself and tell myself that i do, that would just bring me further away from the truth that i so value, cherish and have been searching for this whole time.
Just because there is no inherent or universal meaning or purpose in existence and life, does not mean that we cant give ourselves our own purpose, our own meaning. To love, to play, to be happy... to share our fears and our joys. we have the ability to give our own lives our own meaning...
Don't ever take any others meaning for your own.
"science can tell us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive to many things of very great importance in the universe.
Theology and metaphysics on the other hand, induces the dogmatic belief that we have knowledge, where in fact we have ignorance, and by doing so generates a kind of impertinent insolence towards the universe."
-Bertrand Russell
This is all just my idea, take or leave whatever you want.
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