This sounds like a reflection on how anxiety isn’t new, but has simply changed shape over time old human worries resurfacing in modern contexts. It’s a reminder that many of our inner struggles are less “new problems” and more timeless patterns dressed in different language.
It is the crisis we are all born into, at least if we choose to think deeply about it. You write about accepting "maybe," I would add that we also accept "maybe not." It is the absurdity of life without faith. I don't know how one magically achieves faith. One must also have faith to say unequivocally that there is nothing. One gets into these dilemmas when one sees the Western idea of God as the only option. Enjoyable read.
I laughed in understanding, I cringed at assigning god a gender (“him,”seriously, I can’t fathom it, but then again, men have nipples so I suppose, to most, it’s not a stretch to assume unusable sex organs on their metaphysical representation of a divine being), and I am with you on the tedium of not being fixed on the matter. Loved many quotes but especially:
“What I have is something more honest. I believe in nothing I can defend and doubt everything I can articulate.”
I don’t believe it!
I am a disappointment to everyone, which at least shows consistency. One must excel at something
This sounds like a reflection on how anxiety isn’t new, but has simply changed shape over time old human worries resurfacing in modern contexts. It’s a reminder that many of our inner struggles are less “new problems” and more timeless patterns dressed in different language.
It is the crisis we are all born into, at least if we choose to think deeply about it. You write about accepting "maybe," I would add that we also accept "maybe not." It is the absurdity of life without faith. I don't know how one magically achieves faith. One must also have faith to say unequivocally that there is nothing. One gets into these dilemmas when one sees the Western idea of God as the only option. Enjoyable read.
I laughed in understanding, I cringed at assigning god a gender (“him,”seriously, I can’t fathom it, but then again, men have nipples so I suppose, to most, it’s not a stretch to assume unusable sex organs on their metaphysical representation of a divine being), and I am with you on the tedium of not being fixed on the matter. Loved many quotes but especially:
“What I have is something more honest. I believe in nothing I can defend and doubt everything I can articulate.”