Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Value

There's a book I plan to read called the 36 Arguments for God's existence by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, it is a novel and at the end of the novel she has the 36 most common arguments for god's existence. The arguments and flaws were made available online. As I read the 36 arguments and the flaws, most if not all, where semantically ways of saying life would be meaningless or pointless if god did not exist, and therefore in order for life to not be meaningless or pointless there must be a transcendental force behind it all. It all boils down to, I want my life to mean something or have value to someone else besides me, there's someone who cares, therefore a god must exist because if god did not exist then my life would not have a point or a meaning. However, how does a god give our existence a point, how can I not ask, what is the point or meaning of God? What is his reason for being? Why do we want or need one pointless idea to explain another? What I mean by pointless is it is an idea that does not point to something else beyond itself. I think most of humanity are afraid of life being its own point and so we crave or desire something that's transcendental or outside of ourselves to give us or our life this meaning or value. I think it is passing the buck and avoiding taking responsibility for ourselves. Think about it.