All true, especially if religion no longer fills the spaces. So how to find awe these days? By exploring how nature works. How old it is.
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Replying to @philosophicweb @G_S_Bhogal
I disagree that the brain is not supposed to contemplate. It is how we can connect so deeply that all sense of meaninglessness vanishes
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Replying to @philosophicweb
What I mean is that the brain evolved for survival and reproduction rather than for comprehension of abstracts like purpose and identity.
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I think that those abstracts have been present throughout our evolution but moving ever more into consciousness.
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Replying to @philosophicweb @G_S_Bhogal
Purpose, identity questions tend to be associated with youth. Not always of course. So the anxiety, depressions lift as one becomes creative
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Replying to @philosophicweb @G_S_Bhogal
Mind you, we have genes at work which could mean dealing with those negatives all one's life. Creativity is a major solace, answer
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Replying to @philosophicweb
Yes, Camus's answer to life's inherent purposeless is to see oneself as a main character in a grand drama (life), with all its pain & beauty
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My uncle used to say, "Make everything you do, even the slightest gesture, into a work of art". It's a great maxim to live by, I think.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal @philosophicweb
Then of course one can sublimate oneself into works of art, such as books. I'm working on a book, for which all pain is a means to an end.
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Don't understand 'all pain is a means to an end'. You mean it is bloody hard work?!
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If I ever feel pain, I wallow in the experience so that I can better describe it in my book!
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
Novel or non-fiction? Anyway, of course you are doing a book. You are a natural writer.
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Thanks. It's fiction. I've been working on it for close to 3 years, and it's still nowhere near completion, due to my obsessiveness.
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