(March 20, 2014 at 3:18 am)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: Close. I discovered a horribly neat and straightforward explanation for said feelings, which sort of spoiled them for me a bit.
Yeah ... as you said here:
(March 19, 2014 at 3:57 pm)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: Today's minor epiphany was the concept of sacrificial, agape love as an evolutionary advantage. The warm fluffiness I was enjoying may thus be nothing more than my brain rewarding me for a behaviour which gives my genes benefit, by releasing fun chemicals when I think about it.
But I found it rather hard to believe that this was something new to you because I don't see how that's any different from having a "Meh, maybe it's all in my head" epiphany. They're the same thing except that you just dressed it up with some scientific words like "fun chemicals" ...
And you used to say that religion was a comfort blanket for you, and that you don't even care if it's objectively true or not as long as it makes you "feel good" (i.e. "functional"), but ironically now you're saying the opposite, i.e. that the warm fluffiness has been ruined precisely because of realizing the possibility that it might exist only in your brain and thus not objectively real.
I guess that's just another one of those miraculous flip-flops that you're so good at.
