Sunday, March 23, 2008

Existential Angst

What is Life? Why are we here?
The questions that have troubled humanity forever
lie unanswered.

We go through life with a vague notion of our answer, our belief, but try not to pick at the foundations of our worldview too much. For most of us it comes from Religion, and lately, Science has all the answers for Atheists--either way, we get it from somebody else, an authority which we hope has a better idea of the mysteries that await a restless mind.
But we forget Science is only a way to find out about the physical world, the external--it has been so all along! It can't hope to approach the realm of Ethics
, of Spirituality, for who cares when the big bang happened if I can't find joy in my life?
As for Religion, how can we settle for these old stories when the prophets lived millenia ago? They had no idea about the complexities of life in the modern world. And most importantly, they had nearly no knowledge of the world compared to our specialists of the Information Age. We now hold the entirety of human knowledge and achievement at our fingertips. Just google it.
But the real questions, the ones that matter, where can we find answers that work for us? With all this
technology and information, should we not by now have a better idea of matters of the spirit, the internal, the eternal?

We know all about how Life advanced to our current state. But that doesn't answer the why. Even Religion only provides a framework,
a belief system for our scary human lives, but does not give us the reason for existence. The matter might simply be too big for a mere human to comprehend, some say, but human consciousness is expanding, and more and more we shall grasp the Truth.

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