The ring of doom.
Can you throw my comments in the flames?

Seeing the history of our species as a grand exercise in futility is a poor choice of views.

I think you’re missing the point of what he’s saying. I guess it’s kind of hard to know without reading the whole book. BTW, the book was recommended to me by an atheist.

Lousirr,

they just don’t know how.

Correction. They don’t “want” to know how.
It’s too scary to jump. It’s so much easier staying in the Matrix. I find myself often tempted to just go back there.

It seems,
no one cares.
Or they do,
they just don’t know how.

The water?
It is.
It was.
It will be.
Life,
nothing else.

Truth?
Eat, drink,
wine, water,
A BANQUET!
TO LIFE!

The more one studies attempted solutions to problems in politics and economics, in art, philosophy, and religion, the more one has the impression of extremely gifted people wearing out their ingenuity at the impossible and futile task of trying to get the water of life into neat and permanent packages.

This is a statement that you might expect from someone who looks at life through the prism of religion. It’s difficult for specialists to resist the urge to see everything in terms of their specialty, but it’s necessary.

Some people do not require the water of life–life is enough. Seeing the history of our species as a grand exercise in futility is a poor choice of views.

The more one studies attempted solutions to problems in politics and economics, in art, philosophy, and religion, the more one has the impression of extremely gifted people wearing out their ingenuity at the impossible and futile task of trying to get the water of life into neat and permanent packages.

So true…

Create!

The destroyer is a waste. An absolute waste of potential.

Find yourself something to hold on to. Make it the FSM if you want, or Deism if you want. Or love, or compassion. Or even mammon. If you want. Mammon. Not a good choice, but better than the alternative.

You have something to live for. Grab it. Run with it. Live for love and compassion. But live! Be human!

I must say that from the reading on this blog that I’ve done lately I can see a general trend toward greater understanding and less substantive disagreement on the things that matter most between believers and non-believers of moderate sensibilities. Maybe it’s just me; perhaps I’ve mellowed somewhat. Or, perhaps it’s that my desire that people stop fighting over religion makes me see signs of hope when nothing really has changed. I guess, when it comes to this, I’m optimistic–I do believe that we will work out our differences, I think we have no choice.