And so, you idle for a moment, granting precisely that obligatory pause to the void of uncertainty. And then what?
Nothing is gained in the pause. Or at least not very much. Sure, you rinse off some of the tedious superstition and boil away a little bargaining and gambler's luck. But then?
You still come up empty handed, robbed of answers to serious questions.
Why must I ride along, railroaded into this role as singleton pilot of such a lowly meatbag, less than a dust speck, bound tidally to barely a pebble swirling in the limitless void? Granted no memory of a world prior to my birth, and all this experience doomed to be forgotten at the moment of my death. Seemingly a brief gap of awareness illuminating some strange landscape trapped between bookends of pitch black eternal nothingness, suspended without gravity in yet more nothingness.
So, matters of faith, you say? Faith indeed. Then why continue the charade of this deception? If this world insists on denying me any rightful understanding of this predicament, the only rational action might just be to shun this life forced upon me. Find a quick exit and escape the cosmic unfairness of such a nightmare.
Nothing is gained in the pause. Or at least not very much. Sure, you rinse off some of the tedious superstition and boil away a little bargaining and gambler's luck. But then?
You still come up empty handed, robbed of answers to serious questions.
Why must I ride along, railroaded into this role as singleton pilot of such a lowly meatbag, less than a dust speck, bound tidally to barely a pebble swirling in the limitless void? Granted no memory of a world prior to my birth, and all this experience doomed to be forgotten at the moment of my death. Seemingly a brief gap of awareness illuminating some strange landscape trapped between bookends of pitch black eternal nothingness, suspended without gravity in yet more nothingness.
So, matters of faith, you say? Faith indeed. Then why continue the charade of this deception? If this world insists on denying me any rightful understanding of this predicament, the only rational action might just be to shun this life forced upon me. Find a quick exit and escape the cosmic unfairness of such a nightmare.