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Twin Peaks Saga
Are you Atheist or Theist?
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[QUOTE="AXX°N N., post: 1516, member: 99"] Has Frost alluded to his atheism? For some reason it's opposite in my head; Lynch being atheist with an asterisk and Frost being theist with an asterisk, though I don't have any basis for the latter. But I have read Lynch contextualize belief in a way where it seems he doesn't have it; here's a quote, but there's others I have in mind I can't find at the moment: "[B]I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable.[/B] It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it." His spiritualism seems like many in the west who embrace eastern thought, that it's not out of dogma or worship but more a practical recognition that it's better at allegorically capturing truth than other belief systems. That's where I stand as an agnostic, and it's elaborated on in this Schopenhauer quote: "Brahma is supposed to have created the world by a kind of fall into sin, or by an error, and has to atone for this sin or error by remaining in it himself until he has redeemed himself out of it. Very good! In Buddhism the world arises as a consequence of an inexplicable clouding of the heavenly clarity of the blessed state of Nirvana after a long period of quietude. Its origin is thus a kind of fatality which is fundamentally to be understood in a moral sense, notwithstanding the case has an exact analogy in the physical world in the origin of the sun in an inexplicable primeval streak of mist. Subsequently, however, as a consequence of moral misdeeds it gradually deteriorates physically too, until it has assumed its present sad condition. Excellent! To the Greeks the world and the gods were the work of an unfathomable necessity: that will do as a provisional explanation. Ormuzd is continually at war with Ahriman: that is worth considering. But that a god like Jehovah should create this world of want and misery[I] animi causa[/I] and [I]de gaieté de cœur [/I]and then go so far as to applaud himself for it, saying it is all very good: that is quite unacceptable." [/QUOTE]
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