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Originally Posted by infinitethoughts  I'm not sure what you implied there, that's all.
(Cause there are two ways of implying it.)  |
Oh, that. It was a response to your assertion that there is a silver bullet. I'm simply saying, you'll find out otherwise eventually.
We all have stories. The stories serve as an approximation of reality, a framework to live by, and a protection against randomness (the wall). But all abstractions are leaky, all perception incomplete / inaccurate (cracks). I've never met anyone with a credible claim that they have life figured out, and for good reason. No one ever has or will. In my view, since we are all tiny, tiny parts of an vast whole, we are (in our present form at least) inherently incapable of perceiving much less accurately assessing reality.
That doesn't mean we can't do better than we have, or that there is no such thing as love or pleasure to make life worth living. But you will never possess all the answers all the time -- you will never slay all your ignorance, never at least in this life.
Christianity in general is an effort to turn life into a set of black and white immutable rules. New thought / new age / etc are an attempt to transcend that, but I don't consider it all that successful, just a bumbling step in what one hopes would be a better direction.
--Bob