2026-09-21 11:26 UTC
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.
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-09-21 11:26
Very often, the mind that directed the capturing of the sunset wanted to say something to *other people*, perhaps even *you* (think of a loved one sending you a cameraphone picture of a sunset). That painting or photo may not be *divine*, but it is certainly *intentional*. To look upon a painting of a sunset - or even a photo of a sunset - is to look upon something someone chose to make. You don't slip and accidentally create a sunset painting. 4/