for some people it is simply easier to deal with hard things when there is a higher power as external authority to lean against. this can be misused for bad but also used creatively for good. mind has its ways of shaping itself. you can delude yourself into depression (or addiction) or out of it. when there is nothing inherently good or bad in the world the world can become quite meaningless, don’t you think?
Absolutely! Unadorned existential nihilism is a luxury of the comfortable. People who suffer need more, maybe not religion, but something to keep them from autodeleting.
Really recommend Britt’s No Nonsense Spirituality on YouTube (or wherever you mirror YouTube) for those looking for the baby in the bathwater of religion.
Good and evil are relative. Those are social constructs our species has been reviewing basically from our inception. I’ll grant that, as an individual, feeling alone and small, dealing with overwhelming issues may feel as something one can’t overcome by oneself but resorting, immediately, to something outside oneself? It is as dangerous. And I like to think my entire line of ancestors is watching me; sometimes, that feeling of having a personal fan club feels great. But they won’t be solving my problems; they’re dead.
for some people it is simply easier to deal with hard things when there is a higher power as external authority to lean against. this can be misused for bad but also used creatively for good. mind has its ways of shaping itself. you can delude yourself into depression (or addiction) or out of it. when there is nothing inherently good or bad in the world the world can become quite meaningless, don’t you think?
Absolutely! Unadorned existential nihilism is a luxury of the comfortable. People who suffer need more, maybe not religion, but something to keep them from autodeleting.
Really recommend Britt’s No Nonsense Spirituality on YouTube (or wherever you mirror YouTube) for those looking for the baby in the bathwater of religion.
Good and evil are relative. Those are social constructs our species has been reviewing basically from our inception. I’ll grant that, as an individual, feeling alone and small, dealing with overwhelming issues may feel as something one can’t overcome by oneself but resorting, immediately, to something outside oneself? It is as dangerous. And I like to think my entire line of ancestors is watching me; sometimes, that feeling of having a personal fan club feels great. But they won’t be solving my problems; they’re dead.