Demon Erasers
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Yeah.
So the human condition, as I've said, is one of uncertainty.
I don't know.
I will never know.
And I don't care.
And I'm okay with that.
I don't care.
That's the you don't care part.
Like I said, read that uncertainty quote from Bertrand Russell.
This, to me, is the most powerful quote, and I think it sums up the human condition.
And I think that once you make your peace with this and really understand that you have religion on one side, you have science on the other, and philosophy is something in the middle that is really about being intellectual and really about being objective.
So it says, uncertainty in the presence of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales.
Obviously, he's talking about religion.
It is not good either to forget the questions that philosophy asks, he's talking about science there, or to persuade ourselves that we have found indubitable answers to them.
to teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can still do for those who study it.
So I read that quote and there is nothing that I've read in my life that has resonated so deeply with me.
And when I admitted that things are uncertain and I get it, I have the same vivid hopes.
But that still doesn't prove that there is a God.
Just like I asked you.
And that to me is an emotional... Okay.