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Originally Posted by FellaGaga-52
It's the person discounting this world for the magical and miraculous perfect next one that has devalued this life. The person who has not sacrificed this world is the one living on bravely without panacea fantasies along the trek. Try some Nietzsche or Viktor Frankl. We don't need any of the thousands of gods to avert meaninglessness ... they are obviously all made up anyway (where did we get the thousands, oh, we made them up). So what kind of meaning do they provide except mythological?
The place where people need to get is to see an unjust world but still pursue meaning with an obsession and ambition. That level of faith is difficult to get to; it needs to be developed.
Trust in the pursuit of meaning has to be conditioned into people before they can hold onto hard truths. An unjust world says the pursuit of meaning with willpower and ambition is futile. When they are faced with that, they have to draw on their established relationship with meaning in order to defy it. Otherwise, they will give up. Nietzsche took that for granted or overlooked it.
It’s the practice of seeing in the light to prepare for faith in the darkness. Believing in future rewards adds enough meaning to shift the balance of an unjust world to a just world. The more just and accommodating people see the world, the more they will pursue meaning. Think of it as a useful delusion if it helps you.
If you are implying that the meaning people get from the status quo religious offerings is ultimately insufficient, then I agree with you. But most of them are not ready to defy that resistance I previously mentioned. They haven’t amplified their desire for meaning enough yet. It needs to become entitlement. They need more irrationality and more delusion before they are ready for the hard truths. They also need more belief in their own potential, so they need more secularity and individualism also.