(April 5, 2019 at 1:02 pm)Acrobat Wrote:(April 5, 2019 at 12:14 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: @Acrobat
I diverge from most of my atheist counterparts in terms of the question “do you wish there was a god”. I do wish there was a god, and atheism is not my preferred position. So, if you have a good reason to believe in god, I’d most certainly like to hear it.
In my view the reality we live in and occupy appears to be about something rather than nothing. In fact humanity has long been oriented to such a perception. We're not creatures just looking for ways to survive, but looking for something to live for. We desire meaning, goodness, truth etc.., Are born with this nagging suspicion, that there's something more behind the curtain, that life is more than the sum of its parts. We live in a reality that appears to be playing a tune, something that lies at the heart of its excessiveness and ugliness, and beauty, within all its joy and pain.
There’s something to all of this, that points, to things like we ought to be good, be kind and not cruel, to love rather than hate. That when we see a good person, we see something whole about him, and something empty and absent about a bad one. We see things like cruelty, violence, hatred, resentment, etc as part of darkness, and things like kindness, compassion, mercy, justice as part of the light.
That there’s something profound about the March from Selma, and something corrupted by the violence directed at its non-violent participants.
We live not as empty little biological creatures, just procreating and surviving, but as far more excessive of a being than we ever needed to be, one’s capable of being moved beyond all measure, capable of recognizing depth and beauty that’s difficult to even take in. We’re not creatures existing in a reality uninterested, but a reality playing for us a tune, that perhaps we currently only hear vaguely, but we hear it nonetheless. One that’s about something, rather than nothing.
Poetic as all that is, it’s still a mere assertion.
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.