APATHY To be perfectly honest about it (and I see no reason not be honest, especially with yourself), everything comes down to taste and/or desire. We kid ourselves by coming up with reasons for stuff. There are no reasons. We just want it, or we don't want it. Is there a reason why you like apple pie, or don't like it; that you want to have sex, or don't want to have sex? Our urges for or against these things stem from sources primal (or, if you prefer, molecular). Human beings make far too big of a deal out of everything, especially their own lives, which they did not make but seem obsessed with nevertheless. But then again, I guess you can't blame them for that either, since the urge to survive is also primal and thus beyond any kind of rational explanation. We just want to live because our DNA prods us to. All of this is ok. I don't mean to sound like I'm denigrating it. What is not ok is the way we are not honest about it. We're deluding ourselves if we believe there is really some sort of reason for being here, or staying here or doing whatever it is that we do while we're here. Over here you have some jive Christian talking about sin and evil, while over here you have some atheist talking about how stupid Christians are and so on. Nobody knows anything, other than the fact that the sun is in the sky and trees grow out of the ground and rocks are hard and stuff like that. But nobody knows whether there is a God, one way or the other. It's just a matter of opinion, which some people will say is a matter of faith, as if that makes it sound better. (Tell me why a faith is not an opinion.) I suppose it's possible that there is a God, but that only means that it is just as possible that there isn't one. If He's there He's there. If He's not He's not. What the hell are we supposed to do about it? All this crap about the Bible being God's word is just that - crap. It's hard to imagine that a being as big and powerful as a God would have much truck with speaking to people, mere mortals. For the life of me I can't imagine why. For that matter, why would a pristine entity ever do anything? Create a universe, write a book, anything. Seems to me that a pristine entity would subsist in a realm of complete perfect serenity, totally uninvolved in time and/or space, beyond any human concerns, desires or fears. Because IT would have the power to do anything, IT would most likely do nothing. Because all thoughts would be at ITs disposal, it would very likely choose none of them, viewing all of them in comparison with itself as nothing. When you really think about it, it's hard to imagine anything or anyone more apathetic than a Pristine Entity. Purpose-Driven Life? Fuck Off! The Bible: Why God Had Nothing To Do With It
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