True Faith.

It's not that life has no meaning, nor even that there isn't greater powers in the cosmos....but that whatever we think of it has always been wrong, or mostly wrong.

[originally written March 25th, 2022]

True faith is probably knowing that God doesn't exist and knowing it's okay that He doesn't exist.

It's not that life has no meaning, nor even that there isn't greater powers in the cosmos....but that whatever we think of it has always been wrong, or mostly wrong.

Maybe our views of life gets more accurate as time passes, as we refine, debate, and argue, and make mistakes as a species. Some people come close, not necessarily because of their ideas, but because of their experiences, of coming to reconcile the absurdity of their existence with the love of life. Knowing it is meaningless, but knowing that compassion and love does have meaning nonetheless.

Some people approach religion through logic and reason (Nargajuna for example), others through mystical visions. There isn't a real way to say what is right or wrong.

From all angles, we achieve a better understanding of our place in this world, and find meaning. We grow in wisdom to build a better world, not because we must, but because we can. Not because God predestined it, but because we choose to.

It is not a purpose, but it is a possibility. One without a sure end. And isn't life better for it?

The divine mystery is that it is unknowable, and can never be known. But we strive on nonetheless. In not knowing, we find infinite possibilities.

There are perennialists and people who have seen gremlins on a drug trip looking down on me in judgement right now, absolutely convinced of their true faith conferred by God on high, disgusted with my nihilism. Well, I'm not you. I don't have that kind of certainty and as a rule, I distrust my senses and my thoughts, and any potential visions I may have.

Certainty is the death of spirituality anyway.