I had always considered Richard Dawkins to be kind of an adversary, someone who came along to take all the fun out of everything. But I was watching a documentary a few weeks ago and Dawkins appeared and said something that changed my mind. It wasn’t what he said or that it was Richard Dawkins. It was a catalyst that made me go “Oh, wait” and then everything snapped into place.
There’s a scene in one of the Hitchhiker’s books where a young woman suddenly has an idea for world peace that just might work, but the Vogons destroy Earth before she can tell anyone. That’s how I felt. In this case, the Vogons were represented by the realization that I had my answer, not The Answer. Again, language is the problem. Whatever I try to explain will just become your interpretation and not my answer. It only means something to me. It is useless to anyone else.
I realized that the questions I had been asking weren’t the wrong questions. But the real question was “Why am I asking this?” And that’s not really the most accurate way to put it. Perhaps I should say “What mechanism must exist to make it possible that I can formulate this idea?” My questions were already biased because they were American questions, human questions. What if I asked inhuman questions? What if I tried to peer through a crack at the edge of my vision? What I saw was so simple that it sounds ridiculous to even say. But it was also horrific to my sensibilities, leading to statements that I know I cannot utter in this society.
These insights haven’t made anything “better” for me. I feel a weird peace about certain things, but I don’t feel settled. I don’t think I am meant to.
Not settled?
Try lazy
It takes work/faith to find the real truth you are looking for in Messiah Jesus.
Try also being a coward
It takes being bold to kick out the dark ones attached to some of your parts.
If other multiples can do it so can you.
The person who wrote this ignorant bullshit is a coward. It is really easy to sit there in the library and post completely anonymous comments. You aren’t interested in a dialog or treating me like a person. You just care about your agenda. That is selfish and lazy.
I believe you gave a proper response to the person who posted an anonymous comment. I’m sure your topic is beyond my pay grade. But, I’ll try to do a little better than the poor fellow above.
There are no two humans who are igual. Even identical twins are different. Yet, we are pressured by culture, lnaguage, ideology, etc. to follow the “Herd mentality.” Political correctness is part of fitting in.
My take is that there is one universe within each of us, and that universe grows from the inside out: The less you depend on outside sources, the freer you are. Complete freedom is only achieved when you become king of your own universe.
You do not feel “Settled” because you are trying to please masters outside you, to utter the PC sentiment, when such sentiment does not fit your universe.
Richard Dawkins is well known for his belief that we are the roots produced by our genes, taking a mechanistic approach, as T.H. Huxley, to explain away morality. However, his attack on God is only a distraction because whether or not Gods esists, does not solve the issue of where morality comes from.
There people a lot smarter than I am, such as President Obama, who believes in “Collective Salvation” rather than in individual salvation. That is more in line with his Socialist ideology than with reality. If there is a God, equality in mankind would be his mantra. Yet, each one of us is unique. My take is that we have to grow the God inside us until we feel free to act God-like.