RE: what do christians (and people in general) mean by "feeling empty inside"?
April 16, 2013 at 4:37 pm
(This post was last modified: April 18, 2013 at 11:41 pm by Cyberman.)
(April 15, 2013 at 7:26 am)Jextin Wrote: Been hearing all my life from Christians that "we have a hole inside of us that only god can fill, and we may try to fill it with girls, video games and foods but only god can fill it" :S
I'm not particularly convinced there is any such god-shaoed hole, but assuming there is I'd fill it with alcohol. That's how liquid works.
(April 16, 2013 at 8:23 am)ChadWooters Wrote: In the absence of God the universe is absurd, life becomes an empty gesture, relationships are reduced to power dynamics, and the qualitative content of mental life gets dismissed.
Leaving aside that this is a monstrous non-sequitur, why should we expect the Universe to be anything other than absurd, at least by certain human standards? We eke out a precarious existence perched on the outer skin of a tiny ball of rock whirling around a decent sized nuclear fusion reactor; the dominant species here is essentially a strategically-shaved ape with a thyroid condition; and prepubescent females of this species cream themselves daily over Justin Bieber. To quote Red Dwarf's Kryten: "If that's gotta make sense, I don't want to be sober."
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
