(June 19, 2013 at 4:19 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Factoring in a creator your outlook becomes reasonably (because you have reasoned it to be so) positive rather than, as you say, neither good nor bad.Fair enough, but based on evidence there is very little to assume there is much "built-in"/"off-the-shelf" purpose to this life at all. As one of my favourite German authors Hermann Hesse wrote:
Faith gives me the potential to get more out of life than life without it.
"Life has exactly as much or as little purpose as we are able to give it ourselves."
I have an enormeous amount of purpose in my life, actually I love life incredibly, without the need to believe in an omnipotent being having purpose for all this beyond what I can fathom. But I guess your mileage may worry (sic)
"Men see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages — except their own!" — Ernest Crosby.
