
Originally Posted by
Nihilist
I guess this is an obvious corollary which enters the mind of an atheist.
Personally, I can't place faith in it, atleast not in an absolutist, atomised sense. But to deny such a significant and palpably majestic element of humanity is a shameful calamity indeed; even from a scientific perspective, for it unravels the subtleties of that which makes us who we are, and leaves us with an inhumanist, capricious and anti-aesthetical perspective of existence.
I despise the antecedents that guide the spirit; the necessity for universalism, mysticism and blinded dogmatism. Yet isn't it these things which inspires the creativity to envision something greater and more beauteous...that gives us hope, respect and circumspect for those of the future, rather than just the transient hyper-individualistic/animalistic necessities/sensualities of the now?
I warm to the idea of spirituality being thought of as an elusive metaphor for real and natural phenomenon...but cannot conceal the reality that this too is still a delusion...even if it is perhaps a necessary one.
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