Dr. J. Budziszewski

And I had to explain what I meant by incoherent.

And he said, oh yeah, I have.

That was incoherent.

He said, but that's okay because the universe is incoherent and I don't need coherency or meaning in my life.

And I, once upon a time, I would have thought, oh, this poor guy, I have to explain to him that he does need meeting and coherency and that such a thing as possible and all this.

But of course he knew this really deep down.

He was evading it.

So I said, I don't believe you.

I said, deep down, you know, just as well as I do, that longing for meaning and coherency is deep set in every created mind.

I love it.

So why don't you tell me, what is it that you want so badly that you're willing to do without meaning and coherency to have it?

Oh, far out, man.

He was stumbling, not physically.

That's good.

Like your friend's respondent, not physically.

But he was sort of staggering verbally for about 90 seconds.

What is it that you want so badly that you're willing to do without meaning and coherency in order to have it?

Come on.

You know, I spoke about blowing away the smoke before.

Come on.