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If you take a step back, it is a great and profoundly absurd mystery that there is existence at all. So given this background absurdity, how do you even deline
by feanaro 4y ago
If you take a step back, it is a great and profoundly absurd mystery that there is existence at all.
So given this background absurdity, how do you even delineate what's absurd and what's not, when it comes to concepts relating to the nature of existence itself? It's certainly fashionable to attempt putting everything in terms such as "cognitive distortions", but it's not clear it's sound reasoning when it comes to things like this.
And I say this as a rather staunch irreligious person.
- brutusborn 4y agoWhat kind of concepts would be hard to delineate? I like the Zen approach to mystery, which is to accept it and resist the temptation to rationalize the mystery away. Thus no absurd concepts are needed, since concepts are not needed. (I’m relatively new to Zen so I may be off the mark a bit here, but I think I got the essence correct)