Saponification
A piece of nothing
- Jun 27, 2024
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"Parents are a child's creator. Therefore, they are their first figure of God. If their parents were to abandon them, psychologically speaking, they were effectively abandoned by God."1
People usually spend their lives chasing happiness. The problem is, it's extremely ephemeral. Thus, it is my belief that one should instead look for peace. I define peace as the feeling of plenitude that comes when everything is "enough".
But what happens when you are prived of your most basic need at your crucial development years? When you are abandoned by God and as such your existence loses all meaning? How can anything ever be "enough"? You'll be condemned to spend your life chasing the attention that you never got, and, even if you do get it, it will never fill the infinite emptiness inside. You will never achieve lasting peace.
I recently read that the "physical facts fix all the facts". Everything in the universe consists of a chain of cause-consequences that can only by really explained by physics.2 On a similar note, I think that in your personal life, everything is a causal chain that is determined by your psychology. As such, the psychological facts fix all of the facts.
1. I got this idea from Fight Club, if I remember correctly. Cool movie, by the way.
2. Alex Rosenberg - The Atheist's Guide to Reality. Good book—it explains the basics of science required to understand reality, but the writer comes across as quite arrogant if you're agnostic or theist.
People usually spend their lives chasing happiness. The problem is, it's extremely ephemeral. Thus, it is my belief that one should instead look for peace. I define peace as the feeling of plenitude that comes when everything is "enough".
But what happens when you are prived of your most basic need at your crucial development years? When you are abandoned by God and as such your existence loses all meaning? How can anything ever be "enough"? You'll be condemned to spend your life chasing the attention that you never got, and, even if you do get it, it will never fill the infinite emptiness inside. You will never achieve lasting peace.
I recently read that the "physical facts fix all the facts". Everything in the universe consists of a chain of cause-consequences that can only by really explained by physics.2 On a similar note, I think that in your personal life, everything is a causal chain that is determined by your psychology. As such, the psychological facts fix all of the facts.
1. I got this idea from Fight Club, if I remember correctly. Cool movie, by the way.
2. Alex Rosenberg - The Atheist's Guide to Reality. Good book—it explains the basics of science required to understand reality, but the writer comes across as quite arrogant if you're agnostic or theist.
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