New International Version
"Everything Is Meaningless
1 The words of the Teacher,[a] son of David, king in Jerusalem:
2 “Meaningless! Meaningless!”
says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.”
Other skeptical thinkers for 2,500 human years have claimed similar hopelessness.
OR
have suggested illusionary images of Death...
Such as that each of us billions of humans when we die are like
billions of waves that roll in on the Pacific Ocean tide...
BUT a series of waves of the tide of the ocean are TOTALY Non-sentient, NOT Aware,
Don't have deep life experiences and stories, Don't have a keen sense of MORAL REALISM, OUGHT, the IDEAL.
A wave or dead leaf are only physical objects.
Lifeless.
Billions of the waves and leaves can come and go--and except brief impersonal life in the case of a leaf, NOTHING LIVES NOW
ALL is LOST!!!!!!!
HOWEVER in the case of all humans
(and maybe a few other cases of higher animals?
ALL MEANINGFULLNESS
of humans is
LOST:-(
Our bodies mean zilch!
BUT to LOSE OUGHT, AWARENESS,
Our Stories and all that we have learned in 78+ years,
HOW Despairing, How Absurd.
......
So, that's why billions of humans, including Quakers hope for AFTER LIFE.
Otherwise, we as a species are in reality, a ZERO, Nilhism. :-((
All the facts of Life say, No existence after Our Brain ceases.
Just reflecting on all of this, seems so impossible to imagine or understand!
How can
Each of us PERSONS
be ONLY " mere breath, mere vapor" as the Teacher claims.
Most of my consciousness, every moment, thinks I won't become ZERO!
But I was with my dad when he died. A ccouple of hours later, the attendents came into our living room, rolled
his stark lifeless body onto a sheet, picked up the roll of bones and skin and hauled it out.
BUT Billions going back at least a million years experienced this same anguish, same absurd irrational
and No longer EXIST--),
were only transient vapor
like the Teacher of the Old Testamen/Jewwish Bible claimS.
My last gasp for MEANING and HOPE is that G_D--U.R. is far more AWARE
than any intelligent physical species in the vast Cosmos.
!
And that G_D
Is EVERLASTING INTELLIGENT PROCESS who will carry billions
of brief intelligent moral individual lives in its memory!
I know this is a 'hail, mary'-Hope (very unlikely based on all known science :-(
IF the TEACHER
is correct, then I agree with the philosopher Albert Camus that REALITY IS
ABSURD!!
IF Reality and Life came about by CHANCE or DETERMINISM
Camus stated that he Rebels against this Reality
and
EMBRACE OUGHT (that which is NOT subjective, NOT relative like most atheists and anti-human nihilists Claim.
In the HOPE of the LIGHT,
Daniel Wilcox
seaquaker@gmail.com
http://infiniteoceanoflightandlove.blogspot.com/
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