This is a far more permissive and palatable approach to the band spirituality occupies on the spectrum of reason. For some, faith is antidotal to the existential horrors of entropy and despair, from which there is no reprieve. It is the last preserve from an indifferent and immutable existence.
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P.N. Setepenre
Is today's sunlight same as yesterday's? Kind of brain-scraping when you think about it. There's nothing intrinsically different, in the sense that they're all made of the same 'stuff' - electromagnetic radiation from the sun. Which would make sunlight truly egalitarian - to kings and beggars, sunshine is sunshine. Life has been shitty lately. Supposedly … Continue reading P.N. Setepenre
On Faith, Part 3 of Many
X, I don’t know why I am writing this to you. Perhaps it was the way you casually brought up your faith, giving me a glimpse of your utter devotion to an idea. I found it to be strange and exhilarating, because it was an emotional expression of which I am incapable. Emotion is the … Continue reading On Faith, Part 3 of Many
Part 2 of Many: On the search for God, Eternity, the One, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a supernatural solution to all his earthly troubles…
For some years after meeting the bespectacled grape-eating finger-licking demigod, I became a devotedly religious child. I was a ‘somethingist’… or whatever that cult was called. For once in my life I felt a sense of serenity, knowing my life was secure, that though I walked alone on dark and foggy roads, a greater force … Continue reading Part 2 of Many: On the search for God, Eternity, the One, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a supernatural solution to all his earthly troubles…
Part 1 of Many: On the search for God, Eternity, the One, the Flying Spagheti Monster, a supernatural solution to all his earthly troubles…
On his sixth birthday, the Mother took Peter to meet the oracle of her Sect. Peter remembers two things about that trip. One, that it was a restaurant which served fried scorpions as an exotic dish, and he spent most of lunch peering into a terrarium wondering what it'd be like to be stung by … Continue reading Part 1 of Many: On the search for God, Eternity, the One, the Flying Spagheti Monster, a supernatural solution to all his earthly troubles…
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