Alex O'Connor
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard 25 May
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that you haven't fulfilled yet, that you don't know if you're going to fulfill, that you believe will bring you fulfillment when you get it, but you haven't got it yet.
That's why I think religion does it really well, because it's the definition of something which you don't have now, which you can strive for, which when you get, you believe will be fulfilling.
I'm saying something a bit different.
What I was going to go on to say is to point out – and bear in mind this comes from a part of Pascal's Pensee which is titled Man Without God.
He goes on to discuss man with God.
But I look at the development of the human species and our particular proclivities.
Lewis makes this argument from desire that you mentioned.
Why do we have a desire for food?
Well, because there is actually food to have.
The evolutionary biologist says the reason that we develop hunger is because those who didn't died.
And if you don't have some sense of hunger, you're not going to seek out food and you will die.
And so it just so happens that those who develop this feeling of hunger will be more likely to survive and therefore hunger is a part of our human condition.
Well,
Such is meaning.
If you have two isolated communities, one of whom says, I just don't care.
Whatever, man.
No interest in having children, no interest in building societies, legal systems, constitutions, whatever the case, moral systems, none of that.
They just don't care.
Nihilists.
They're not even going to have children.
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