Meaninglessness

Here’s an interesting quote that may serve as an antidote to the rigid materialism of scientists like Robert Sapolsky:

          …for the person who believes we are completely reducible to physiological firings in the brain, and that we are essentially pinnacle insects, impressive, yes, prone to deviations both endearing and alarming, most definitely, but in the end as rote and reactionary as the immense machine through which we move and live and have our algebraic being—for such a person, any setback to the steady pleasure of a prosperous and emotionally gratifying existence, much less any real tragedy such as the prospect of our own deaths or the death of someone we “love” (for a scientific materialist, the word must always be in quotes) blows open the doors of deliberate ignorance behind which we were hiding: the real meaning of our lives comes flooding in, which, for the materialist is that there is no real meaning to our lives whatsoever.
(quote by Christian Wiman, excerpted from his book, Zero at the Bone)

~ submitted by Richard Russell