Nick_A wrote: ↑Sat Sep 15, 2018 7:58 pm
You seem to have an open disdain for all those seeking to understand human meaning and purpose beyond the limitations of the world...
No, I've already told you that I don't.
Nick_A wrote: ↑Sat Sep 15, 2018 7:58 pm
Would you be one of those who condemn Simone Weil for thinking outside of the secular box?
I've already answered this before too. My answer is: No.
And now we see the agenda behind you asking me that (again)... it's because you wanted to have a reason to AGAIN post the letter excerpt below, which you've posted who-knows-how-many-fucking-times:
Excerpted from a letter Simone Weil wrote on May 15, 1942 in Marseilles, France to her close friend Father Perrin: "At fourteen I fell into one of those fits of bottomless despair that come with adolescence [blah, blah, blah].
Yeh, she was depressed and had insights like so many people do. Big deal.
Nick_A wrote: ↑Sat Sep 15, 2018 7:58 pmWhy condemn these people because they seek freedom from cave life?
It could be said that religion does this: Condemns people for seeking to be free from primitive religious doctrines. If people go outside of it, they are doomed. Why does religion do that? You can apply such a template to all sorts of things... and then rally a cause/platform around it. What the fuck ever, Nick. Your platform -- or perhaps the way you present it -- is just not significant or compelling.
Hmm, here's a general question you've inspired me to ask: Might religion and insanity be escapes from being absolutely terrified? Anyone have an opinion on that?