Now you have it, now you don't. Life is a perpetual tease for most of us. Relentlessly we press forward through the rat race chasing after what we think we need, after people, places and things we are convinced will sustain us, while knowing full well that ultimately every illusory pixel of this picture, including ourselves, is destined to wink out. Alas! It's all so grim when we stop to think about it, so we don't. Most of us just ride the roller coaster oblivious, thrilling in peaks, screaming in valleys, bittersweet sad at the end of the line. Life is a poignant and all too brief dream.
Some of us find respite through faith in deities, in icons and scriptures of deities, in emotional rescue no matter how fleeting, but for those of us born and baptized in science and secularism faith in things unseen and hoped for will not suffice. We want tangible methods and reproducible results. We want visceral answers to our deepest questions. Is this simply hubris or is it rather an instinct for truth we follow?
Some of us find respite through faith in deities, in icons and scriptures of deities, in emotional rescue no matter how fleeting, but for those of us born and baptized in science and secularism faith in things unseen and hoped for will not suffice. We want tangible methods and reproducible results. We want visceral answers to our deepest questions. Is this simply hubris or is it rather an instinct for truth we follow?
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