Originally posted by Leo Volont


Such \"everyman is an island\" nihilism, and the suggestion that all of life is meaningless is undoubtedly the core of modern Materialist Doctrine, but one needs to wonder about this great compulsion we see in so many people enthusiastically trying to spread such bleak Dogma. *Is it something about Misery loving company? *What comfort is there in placing these unsurmountable gulfs between each other. *Why must it be some unshakeable principle that one man cannot know what is in another man's heart and mind. *Is it not the same color blood that runs in our veins. *Is it then not the same Life Force? *Cannot love resolve in Understanding?

But let you Materialists have your dark and separate unknowable realities, but I do hope you do better with them then all of the despairing existentialists who could do nothing with such thinking but to use it as a weapon for their own suicides.
There is a lot of truth in what you say, and you word it quite well, but I'm not as far down that path as you assume. I don't feel as though we leave in our own "dark and separate unknowable reality", psychology is one of biggest interests....I can make assumptions about people with very little information, and usually I'm right, only because experience and patterns have taught me. It's all about balance really, there is no rule governing every person on this planet, but there is a great deal of connection between us, and I believe we are all islands, but I also believe there are different connections between us we are discovering constantly. Though yes, often times I come off sounding too existential, which can be bad because a constant feeling of "in the long run we all die" will most likely kill me.