Here though human psychology can be, well, truly labyrinthian. There is what we think “here and now” consciously, “philosophically” about these things; and there are the considerably more problematic variables embedded in the sub-conscious and unconscious mind. All tangled up in genes and memes out in a particular world ever and always bursting at the seams with contingency, chance and change.
It’s all really just a “wild ass guess”, isn’t it? And that’s before the part about dasein. And God.
And the irony is that whether I find it or not, I too will be welcomed into God’s Kingdom.
But in this life, you envy Ierrellus’ “comfort”.
You’ve got that right. Hell, I still remember clearly how deeply [profoundly!] consoled and comforted I was when I believed in the Christian God.
Well, the Protestant Christian God anyway.
And, sure, I’d like to come across a narrative here that might spark me enough to make my own Pascalian wager…to make my own Kierkegaardian leap to God.
But that isn’t exactly like flicking a switch to “on” in my brain is it? I have to be convinced [by someone] that the wager makes sense. That it is a reasonable thing to do. Otherwise it becomes just one more rendition of “blind faith”. Either that or a ruse.
“He’s living a lie”? If the world really is meaningless and without God, then “living a lie” is meaningless and irrelevant as well. Then your best bet is to live a “comfortable lie”.
I would never argue that he is living a lie. To do so would be to argue that I know what is true. All we can do here is to exchange existential narratives and either be or not be persuaded by them.
And, come on, if you do choose to live that “comfortable lie”, will it fool God?
But, again, for Ierrellus, even if you do this in an attempt to fool God, God still welcomes you into His Kingdom.