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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (10436)	12/6/2010 10:31:28 AM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

…might I ask you to explain the cited sentences to me? I assume you mean these>>> >we are persons positioned to ask it primarily so that we consider it, and consider it we must to avail ourselves of the wholeness of truth, using conscious awareness, logic, perception, and powers of deliberation. Or I suppose you could just continue to seek nihilistic comfort in your fantasy life of odd sensations, delusions of grandeur, illusion of prosperity, feelings of loneliness, and anxiety.< Sentence one describes the condition given to the ‘asker’. We could probably compose books on the idea, so you’ll have to be a little more specific in your request regarding the first sentence. It is a starting point for further deliberation. Sentence number two suggests lackadaisical choice as the alternative. Genuine asking of originary questions is tough because you are completely and personally responsible for struggling with the question. The alternative is to seek comfort for comfort’s sake. IMO such venues are delusional. We seek wealth, power, greater influence, physical gratifications with the expectation that this will lead to greater satisfaction in life, even comfort in scripture or a text book scenario of some sort without doing the personal work to gain meaningfulness on a personal level. The rewards of such endeavors, however, are largely anticipatory in nature. We enjoy the thoughts of the rewards of wealth, power etc and so we find some level of satisfaction while pursuing those paths. However, history tells us that the wealthy and powerful don’t ultimately find happiness at the end of these rainbow paths. Most find dissatisfaction and disillusionments with the outcomes, usually when it is too late to trade the comforts in for another life. I termed it nihilistic comfort because life on a pillow ultimately lacks meaningfulness beyond comfort for comfort’s sake. To be bluntly honest, sentence number two was not much more than a chain yank on my part.