you may have noticed from my postings that i am a kantian agnostic with regard to theological matters. what this means is that i see the idea of god as something that we are commonly led to contemplate as the result of our musings about good and evil, but that divinity itself is not anything that can be given in experience. wittgenstein and kierkegaard taught me what it means to be an agnostic: to live in a place of uncertainty, what existentialists generally would call abandonment or facticity. it is an uncomfortable place to live, because it means that i must confront the very real possibility that my suffering has no meaning or redemption in this empty, boundless universe. in the end i cannot depend on the affirmation of a supreme being or beings, and am left merely with the occasional kindness of strangers such as yourself.
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