John, I knew you were trying to trap me --- and you did.
And not only did you trap me, you cut me up, ate me and spat out the bits left over. While I was busy following my nose with my defective eyesight to the Dome of the Rock past the Wailing Wall, you were flying and surveying the scene from 50,000 or, maybe, 100,000 feet. Indeed, the whole panorama of human existence. In fact, you have taken the Israeli/Palestinian "thing" to a point where it really doesn't matter --- because, being such an insignificant speck in the distance, we can't actually see it any more. So, who cares anyway? Reductio ad absurdum.
As you say, if it's not this then it's that. Why? Because that's the way we are. Take away religion and what have you got --- religion! Surprise, surprise. The communists showed us that trick years ago. So, what chance did I have, when I was king for two minutes, to show you anything you didn't already know?
> In fact, isn't there a real danger that in spending so much time arguing, justifying, contemplating, etc. all the details we lose sight of the real issue(s) - too many people, not enough resources.
Which brings us to another attribute of the human being --- his ability to procreate. In fact, the poorer he is, and with few or no resources, the more he breeds. Why? Because he then regards his offspring as his assets. Bet I caught you that time.
However, I am not going to argue with you any more about the human being or even discuss his peculiarities further because, having been king for two minutes, I already know that my opinion of the species is worse than yours. In fact, as far as I am concerned, the human being is stark, raving mad. And, the worst part of the insanity is that the human not only believes he is sane, but is brilliant and, in fact, "special". (Here I am speaking from personal experience!!)
Indeed, belief in the supernatural and in God, or what have you, is simply an extension of this insanity --- a creation of the human's fertile and disturbed imagination to give more meaning, more purpose and more glory to his life. Why? Because the human has no idea about the life he actually has and, if he does have any idea, he doesn't like it. So he invents a fantasy world into which he can escape. Indeed, if we actually consider life, or what is generally called life, for a moment we can see layer upon layer of the physical manifestations of this fantasy going back to the beginning of human existence.
Can you imagine a lion or a tiger or a caterpillar looking for more meaning, more purpose and more glory in its life than it already has?
Only a lunatic could invent concepts like that --- and then set out to look for them. And then --- to actually create them..............
But, as you say correctly, that's us --- and we have to look for an understanding of the human condition within this framework, not outside it. |
