2026-09-21 11:26 UTC
To gaze upon a sunset with religious faith is to encounter the intentional act of another mind. To gaze upon that same sunset without faith is to look upon something striking, beautiful, and yet *empty*; not empty of wonder or beauty, but empty of *purpose*. No one hung that sun in the sky, no one chose its colors as it sank. It may still be beautiful, but that's a fundamentally different kind of beauty.
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-09-21 11:26
There's a sunset that sits halfway between a religious sunset and an atheist sunset: an artist's depiction of a sunset. This represents the choices of another person, another mind, and at the very least, that mind was talking to *itself*, trying to take something from *inside* the mind and put it *outside* of the mind. 3/