In my newspaper this morning, the end frame of Calvin and Hobbes shows the following comment from Calvin...
"Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?"
Bill Watterson - a genius.
2007-11-26 11:31:28 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Our human nature includes a tremendous capacity for self delusion. Dawkins book, The Selfish Gene, showed that our biological heritage is both selfish and deceptive. And the best lies are those we ourselves believe. It is when we think ourselves free of self deception that we are really in the deepest self denial.
But the truth of a meaningless, purposeless existence is not just "an occasional bleak truth", it is overwhelming blackness.
"There is only one really serious philosophical question, and that is suicide. Deciding whether or not life is worth living is to answer the fundamental question in philosophy. All other questions follow from that." (Albert Camus)
Self deception comes to the rescue of those who reject real purpose and real meaning for they invent pretend-purposes and convince themselves that they are real.
2007-11-26 22:02:34 · answer #1 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Calvin & Hobbes is great!
:)
2007-11-26 19:40:40 · answer #2 · answered by Ember Halo 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋