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Originally Posted by romansh  Quote:
Originally Posted by Om To me, the "impatience" I wrote about is one of the reasons we even HAVE the concept of an afterlife. I also called it a "fear of the dark," as I recall (but that's a slightly different discussion for another day.) ..........
To me, that is the very definition of the agnostic choice. And it strikes me as the ultimate expression of "patience," the exact opposite of the "impatience" I used to describe those who, for whatever reason, choose to believe in and live their lives around a universal view based not on fact, but conjecture, human construct and choice of faith. | Thanks.... I think I understand, you are using patience in the same as at ease? |
Yes ... though with a caveat: "at ease" works very well in context of the individual's lifetime, but I don't think is quite as on-point in terms of how I believe we have behaved as a species.
I think "impatient" better conveys the urge--the almost desperate
drive--we have shown to "fill in the blanks" in our universal view since we first started looking around and wondering about more than where our next full belly was coming from.
This is purely semantic self-indulgence, I know--maybe it's just my way of trying to fill in some blanks of my own.
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By the way, reading your sig quote ... have you read Clarke's
Nine Billion Names of God?