>You give all the reasons why I stay with the Christian 'story' and model,
>bedamned my education, anything any of you bastards would have to say, or
>'reality' itself, LOL. Maybe it's all 'false', and we are left with our
>existential blindness to contend with...it remains, we still must scan the
>horizon and choose a path, even if it is like Sir Fred's 'no path' [no,
>nueral networks and AI singularities, whatever that means, do not make paths
>themselves, much as the machetti is not the path it cleaves in the jungle].
>
>Why Christ one might ask me [with their snickers and low brow disrespect of
>something they see as ignorance]....well, as I've scanned my horizon for 57
>years now, the only thing that seems to be of much worth in this experience
>upon this planet is the inspiration of Love [yuk, I hate the word itself,
>for it seems so all encompassing of 'mush']. If I could explain how I see
>the Christ model in a sentence, I say simply "Love for to sake of itself".
>This does not forsake the underlying reality of neurons and brain chemistry,
>but only allocates 'thought' in such way that the OBJECT of stimulation is
>precise and for reason of that purpose that LOVE is. Once attained, even
>the Sir Fredericks are cured you know, ha [their curmudgeon nihilism
>instantly changed to something far more purposeful]. But you have to
>attain the state first to understand well. I think we begin to realize
>that ever word, ever utterance, every nuance of anything ever said or that
>we will say or think, all enters into the programming we provide ourselves.
>Once having experienced LOVE in the framework of a super existence within
>which I aspire [God], I found a life far more worth the living than the
>mundane nothingness that almost all other things on my horizon offered [in
>comparison]. I realized in fact, that LOVE in fact, is of the essence of
>all meaning that we'd ever find in anything while alive in this world
>[though we name it many things, as if drinking from different cups from the
>same sea].
>
>I kinda wish we could work on the language though. The only word I have is
>LOVE...and it's range seems to be to implicit over such a wide variance that
>it loses impact. That I LOVE vanilla ice cream seems a far cry difference
>than how I LOVE my wife...and how I LOVE my wife, pale in comparison to the
>LOVE I have found in my vision of Christ's model.
>
>Stories? Machs Nichts. It's the state that counts no matter how we attain
>the state.
>
>Oh...and disallusionment? I have pinpointed three experiences that are most
>difficult for humans to overcome [emprically defined I suppose] and
>disallusionment is perhaps the hardest of the three [the other two being
>disappointment of any kind, and injustice]. We can weather pest and
>pestulence and desease and even war better than these three things, for they
>are insiduous to the soul [whatever soul we might carry
>psychologically....the core of what makes us tick whatever].
>