Void of Meaning

  I would like to make a few notes independent of the documentary review.  Addressing this notion of life taking place in a void is something I necessarily must do. This view is untenable from nearly every perspective and is dangerous to the well being of individuals and societies. 

   First let us define the claim. "Life is mysteriously happening. We live and we die. Then there is nothing, no after-life, no meeting your Maker, no judgment, and no final justice. We are just a strange occurrence that emerged on a rock floating through space,  a biological organism that became conscious, experience a string of events we think are real, then we expire and pass back into the void from whence we came. Therefore life is ultimately meaningless. Only what you believe matters, and that only for the time that you believe and or are alive. So make of it what you can before it is all over. "


  No matter who you are, it is more than likely that the first time you hear this world-view it bothers you very much. It creates a sense of emptiness and loss within your being as though something has been stolen from you. There is an initial shock, then the reaction of defense in the form of questions. " Well then how...,  If that's true then... "  The implications are clear enough even to the least thoughtful mind.  

   Now when I first heard this concept,  it was from a science teacher. He did not say it quite so boldly,  nor do I even think he understood that he was saying it. When students from the front row of the class asked the "well then how did it happen" questions,  his response was, " I believe that it was created."  I along with every other countenance I noticed clearly did not buy his answer. After expounding a accident-caused universe in vivid illustration,  an incongruent answer was given in faith terminology. The importance of what happened at that moment was frozen in time and waits to be awakened again for each one who shared it. However, it does not stand alone. These moments stand as monumental edifices overshadowing the landscape of our lives. We can no longer escape their influence. We must choose to ignore them and their inconveniences or we must begin to chisel away at them. Within each one is the heart of human existence and the path to where reality and purpose begins.  


  Now I do not want to write a book here which I very well could do had I the time. I wish to confine my thoughts to a few points to be taken away for keepsake. Our claim has been defined as life taking place within a void. 


(...to be continued)