Essays like this make me glad I'm an aspie. We seem quite content not to worship anything. That does leave us with meaningless lives of quiet despair, but it still kinda seems better to us than what the neurotypicals have going on.
I'm about 80-90% sure. It's possible that in some deep place in my psyche, there's some religious or political or philosophical or pop-cultural idea that fills the void he's talking about, but I'm not consciously aware of it. And I've seen the "God at the bottom of the glass" of science; it's too uncaring to be of any comfort.
Good piece. You actually can’t do science or reason without God. Why is the universe ordered by precise mathematical equations, how do you get something from nothing, why do we have a moral sense, why do we seek truth, justice and beauty? There has to be a transcendent non-material mind that is the ground of these transcendent values
Essays like this make me glad I'm an aspie. We seem quite content not to worship anything. That does leave us with meaningless lives of quiet despair, but it still kinda seems better to us than what the neurotypicals have going on.
Same. Although it does make me question whether a "meaningful life" is all that it's cracked up to be.
Certainly feels better to live 'meaningfully' than not.
I don't think DFW meant to exclude anyone from his comment that we all worship. Are you sure you understand what he means by it?
I'm about 80-90% sure. It's possible that in some deep place in my psyche, there's some religious or political or philosophical or pop-cultural idea that fills the void he's talking about, but I'm not consciously aware of it. And I've seen the "God at the bottom of the glass" of science; it's too uncaring to be of any comfort.
Good piece. You actually can’t do science or reason without God. Why is the universe ordered by precise mathematical equations, how do you get something from nothing, why do we have a moral sense, why do we seek truth, justice and beauty? There has to be a transcendent non-material mind that is the ground of these transcendent values
That’s because the supernatural shit is true, but not in a simplistic, fundamentalist way.
That’s the axiomatic presupposition that would have to fall away.
interesting piece - hadn’t thought of politics being the new religion
If only every human being on Earth could be like this guy: https://imgur.com/gallery/AnnBa
Excellent piece. Thank you
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