bill4long wrote: ↑Tue Jul 11, 2023 12:39 am
Free Ranger wrote: ↑Mon Jul 10, 2023 10:01 pm
That sounds a bit like the Philosophy of Absurdism and Nietzche's emphasis on the Laughter of the Heights. That was my view for years. It worked for me for a while. Then it didn't. Now these views I explore here
http://emergentmormon.blogspot.com/ are working for me.
To each their own.
... Humans are the only animals on earth that are hung up on the minutia of the question. ...
Thanks for sharing, I actually agree with nearly everything you said. It reminds me very much of Nietzsche's philosophy. And I compare Nietzsche and Joseph Smith in my blog
http://emergentmormon.blogspot.com/
I interpret Joseph Smith through the Nietzchean lens of somebody who was definitely bold and a visionary and took action with the will to create.
But I do think that you can't dismiss human beings having evolved to dwell on the so-called "minutia" which I interpret by that you mean not focusing on meaning of life or having a worldview or paradigm? When all the science and psychology I have read points to humans as meaning making creatures and forming some kind of paradigm or meaning in life is part of what it means to have a brain like ours and imaginative and artistic capacities. Most animals don't even recognize themselves in the mirror and so our self awareness comes with it metaphysical tendencies. As the videos at the start of this thread explain, we are likely designed by nature to benefit from some form of spirituality.
Just compare the atheist community in the 90s and early 2000s, I was a part of, with its secular vision of being like Spock in Star Treck and basically the belief that pure Reason & Science is all we need and all the world needs, only to have that leave an existential vaccuum to be filled, which was quickly filled with Atheism+ because most atheists craved meaning and higher purpose, which evolved into what some consider religious or supernatural beliefs among many on the atheistic secular far-Left post 2015. Scandinavia is not the bastion of pure atheism either because there's a lot of folklore and elf belief.
So yes, take action with courage and get your needs met, but even the most successful at the top of the hill end up pondering their existence. And as a human being, they most often seek some higher meaning.