Discipler...
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'...the longings of the soul'
Disclipler..Ah the eternal 'void' across which man stares into a a self-created illusion called The Abyss, a conceptual noman's land, the junction of where our ideas and experience of ourselves end, and our ideas of creation and the world around us begin..
The longing of the soul, our notion that we are separate and distinct from the world and the creative process that brought us here. We define nature as that which is non-human, and so deny ourselves our rightful place in the world, without realising that even the act of thinking this is the most natural and highest most complex form that this nature has taken. We exclude ourselves from the model of the universe in which everything else seems to have a natural place, free from the existential angsts and conceptual traps we set for ourselves.
We label what we do not understand as 'not understandable', remarkably, and in doing so elevate the role of our imited conceptual understanding to the higest truth.
The very human act of attempting to catagorise and quantify our experience is the very thing that highlights its fallability. To attempt to meta-conceptualise the rest and' invoke a deity' to plug the gaps in our language and understanding is the intellectual equivalent of simply calling it 'et cetera', and is utterly without merit.
Religion is therefore by definition a band-aid to real thinking, an ad-hoc filling of the gaps, and will constantly therefore have to redefine itself as real knowledge continues to expand, eventually evaporating as it backs into quantum and number theories, neuroscience and cosmology.