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Quote by: lsbskins1 "However the funny thing about that example is that for many fans of Adams the number “42” does make emotionally satisfying sense."
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But that is the point. The answer "42" is an answer of absurdity. That for some that is the answer. That existence is absurd. I would not put it that way myself but "42" is just a symbol that is interpreted within a context of the works of Douglas Adams (who was an atheist) as absurtity. And in that context "42" is the answer for that question for some people.
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But back to the point. Random acts of violence are only an example of the type of issues I am trying to get at. The larger point is that religion does not exist so much on a logical level as on an emotional level. Just as you can overthink and rationalize emotional issues, it is also possible to overthink and rationalize the innate human desire for spirituality. There are probably few people in the world who are more desirous of logos than I am. I am not saying that it is secondary or inferior. I am saying that it is ill-suited to certain aspects of human need. Logos makes me reject the idea of a supernatural Jesus, born of a virgin and able to perform miracle healings. Logos makes me know that Pilot was not the type of man to wash his hands of guilt for the Crucifixion, but rather, historically, the one most likely to have demanded it. But Mythos informs me that the conceptual construct of Jesus speaks to a part of human nature that can not be ignored. Love of your fellow man and respect for the idea of a higher justice, embodied in the conceptual constuct God brings a sense of community and peace that no amount of science ever will.
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It is not accurate to say that you are getting "back to the point". You have changed the point. Now you have switched from the questions to the answers. Mythos and Logos are now both answers. What you are now saying is that there are times when people want the Mythos answers and there are times when they want the Logos answers. It seems to me that you are saying that in this regard to peoples emotional perference the questions do not matter as much as the way they are answered.
Is this what you are trying to say?
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