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The God-shaped Hole in the Soul
claims of kings, nobles and priests, and from guilt or bad conscience. The greatest hopes are dashed, but some of the worst terrors and inner enslavements are dispelled.
Unprotectedness, nakedness, unsuccored suffering and the awfulness of death are the prospects that man without illusions must face. [Yet]...looking at things from the point of view
of already established society, man can [still] be proud of himself. He has progressed, and by his own efforts. He can think well of himself. And now, possessing the truth, he can be even freer to be himself and improve his situation. He can freely make governments that, untrammeled by mythical duties, and titles to rule, serve his interests.52
Bloom places our existence into Nietzsche’s “beyond good and evil” category, but also shows that good and evil can still be defined within our human- made culture.
Or we can believe that humanity is not on its own, and that cosmic forces will impose justice
on wicked people. As noted, current science can support either view. Many people have explored this positive upward thrust, so to speak, of metaphysical, supernatural possibilities. We however, are going to thrust downward so to speak, in what many believe is a negative direction, into physical realities that have been too negative to explore extensively so far.
In this we are supported by even that bastion of much of the meaning of Western Civilization, the Bible. Even it howls about meaninglessness
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