(November 8, 2014 at 7:03 pm)Esquilax Wrote:(November 8, 2014 at 5:44 pm)lweisenthal Wrote: There is absolutely no downside in what I've done in this regard. I've benefited personally. My family has benefited. The only "victims" are the people on this blog who have chosen to follow this thread and who have "suffered" annoyance.
The downside is that you've stopped searching for the truth, and have instead picked up a comfortable delusion. You'll have absolutely no idea whatever else you've missed because you won't be around to see it.
I've always thought it was the complete and untarnished truth I was after. But sometimes I wonder if "the truth" is something available to beings such as ourselves. Perhaps "some truth" is enough with the added benefit of being attainable.
What do transient beings need with eternal truths? Sans an immortal soul, why should I care? Sometimes a fussy insistence on for-all-time truths just seems pedantic. Truths are banal but small .. facts devoid of any grand significance. What we really want is significance.
Perhaps significance is something you can only catch a glimpse of sidelong. Looked at directly it dissolves into stodgy platitudes. What matters to us can only be alluded to with language, but not caged by it. A general field theory of significance is a will o the wisp. An obsession with such a thing can only make us lose sight of the fact that significance is always dependent on a particular point of view, our own.
Probably if someone wanted to hang on to a belief in god they would do better to go small. Maybe, for day to day use, a good god-concept should be like a smart phone: compact and portable.
