Well, Bob, if you have a better answer than “the god route”, why don’t you share it with him? Share it with all of us.
I find it strange that you dismiss out of hand, stigmatize even, an answer that the wisest, bravest, noblest, smartest men throughout history have embraced.
Roosh is right about this whole “lifestyle engineering”. We are into engineering a life “style” because we lack what makes life essential.
Meaning.
In a universe without an objective infinite-personal God there can be no meaning beyond the short, limited life of the single individual.
How strange that something so existentially essential to man’s existence was not provided for him by a universe and a planet and a process that provided him with everything else he needed!
If there is no God, it must be as Rust Cohle said so eloquently in that first episode of True Detective:
“. . .[I]n philosophical terms I’m what’s called a pessimist… I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware. Nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself – we are creatures that should not exist by natural law… We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, that accretion of sensory experience and feelings, programmed with total assurance that we are each some body, when in fact everybody’s nobody… I think the honorable thing for our species to do is to deny our programming. Stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction – one last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal. [So why get out of bed in the morning?]. . .I tell myself I bear witness. But the real answer is it’s always been my programming and I lack the constitution for suicide.
Rust denies there is anything objective to give meaning to life. But before he expressed that conclusion, Paddy Chavesky had one of his characters, Eddie Jessup in, “Altered States” (a greatly underrated movie!) express the hope of every Meaning-Seeker; that there IS a real Self behind all of OUR Selfs and it can be found!
“Jessup: What dignifies the Yogic practices is that the belief system itself is not truly religious. There is no Buddhist God per se. It is the Self, the individual Mind, that contains immortality and ultimate truth.
Emily: What the hell is not religious about that? You’ve simply replaced God with the Original Self.
Jessup: Yes, but we’ve localized it. At least we know where the Self is. It’s in our own minds. It’s a form of human energy. Our atoms are six billion years old. We’ve got six billion years of memory in our minds. Memory is energy! It doesn’t disappear — it’s still in there. There’s a physiological pathway to our earlier consciousnesses. There has to be; and I’m telling you it’s in the goddamned limbic system.
Mason: You’re a whacko!
Jessup: What’s whacko about it, Mason? I’m a man in search of his True Self. How archetypically American can you get?
Everybody’s looking for their true selves. We’re all trying to fulfill ourselves, understand ourselves, get in touch with ourselves, face the reality of ourselves, explore ourselves, expand ourselves.
Ever since we dispensed with God, we’ve got nothing but ourselves to explain this meaningless horror of life….
Well, I think that that true self, that original self, that first self is a real, mensurate, quantifiable thing, tangible and incarnate.
And I’m going to find the fucker.
