VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Dinah|DATE|1371027195|CONTENT|Even if it were possible for some cosmic authority to monitor the thoughts and actions of every human being on the planet, why should it bother?  Like Wilkinson yesterday, Das hugely over-rates his own  importance on this tiny speck of Earth in the vastness of the Universe.  And how did the writers of the Bhagavad Gita, Das’s own preferred Book of Magic stuff, know there was a benign intelligence out there?  The most obvious explanation is that not having an explanation or the means to find one, they just made it all up.

The desire of human beings to find a pattern and purpose to things, to reassure themselves that the Universe exists for them and that they matter to something or someone greater than themselves has led them up all kinds of ontological blind alleys.  They have created convoluted and complex mythologies to convince themselves there is a meaning to life.  Yet given the complete lack of evidence for any of this stuff, doesn’t it make more sense to find meanings and purposes from within ourselves rather than from someone else’s unproven explanations about a supernatural something ‘out there’?
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