Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Finding MEANING even late in life

["I am older now and I am struggling to find a reason to keep on living. If you feel or have felt like this, where are you with it? "] A long time ago I learned from Viktor Frankl , a Jewish psychiatrist who survived a Nazi Death Camp and wrote " Man's Search For Meaning " that humans wither away and die ( even if just spiritually ) unless they see MEANING in their life. The good doctor even approached aspects of Catholic theology in finding MEANING in suffering. I read this advice when I was only twenty years old. And at my age now 76 I think it has stood the test of time. Sad to say but the IMAGE of Jesus has been distorted by TV evangelism with the sick message : " Jesus wants you to be rich ! ". I also think that SCIENCE has been too arrogant with its Big Bang " theology ". Imagine a wondrous whole UNIVERSE from Nothing. From hydrogen atoms to the New Atheists ! WHO is naive ?

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