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Talent flares brightly for an instant, refuses to elaborate further, and vanishes. Philosophers say: "we are alone." I say, we are fatherless. John called for a messiah, and Jesus answered. Jesus called for a kingdom, and we got Rome. What now that Rome has fallen off its pedestal? People coped for a time, but the millennium put an end to all realistic hopes that a plan was imminent. Now, everyone's just confused. Like, what are we even doing? Splendor and piety are pointless. Material science sprinted ahead of philosophy, casually seized control of metaphysics, and disappeared into an esoteric fog, unaware of its impact on mass psychology. Ruined religions now fight to reform their positions, pushing away from the gaping emotional void that is pop-science metaphysics. An abyss where philosophy used to be, article after world-changing article flushes into it with no change--
>scientist: the universe is eleventy billion lightyears across, all blank rock
>New science proves people have no free will
>Scholar says humanity will die out in 1000 years
The ideas, given any form of perspective, have become wild. Only in a meaningless world do these things have meaning. And yet, there is no rejoinder. No strong counterpoint, no elder. Messiahs are exploded. Philosopher-kings commit genocide. Globalists care only about money. Is there no one who can put into words what we're doing here?

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Talent flares brightly for an instant, refuses to elaborate further, and vanishes. Philosophers say: "we are alone." I say, we are fatherless. John called for a messiah, and Jesus answered. Jesus called for a kingdom, and we got Rome. What now that Rome has fallen off its pedestal? People coped for a time, but the millennium put an end to all realistic hopes that a plan was imminent. Now, everyone's just confused. Like, what are we even doing? Splendor and piety are pointless. Material science sprinted ahead of philosophy, casually seized control of metaphysics, and disappeared into an esoteric fog, unaware of its impact on mass psychology. Ruined religions now fight to reform their positions, pushing away from the gaping emotional void that is pop-science metaphysics. An abyss where philosophy used to be, article after world-changing article flushes into it with no change--
>scientist: the universe is eleventy billion lightyears across, all blank rock
>New science proves people have no free will
>Scholar says humanity will die out in 1000 years
The ideas, given any form of perspective, have become wild. Only in a meaningless world do these things have meaning. And yet, there is no rejoinder. No strong counterpoint, no elder. Messiahs are exploded. Philosopher-kings commit genocide. Globalists care only about money. Is there no one who can put into words what we're doing here?

captcha: PWN AD