Wittgenstein

[arpad]

To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life.

To beleive in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.

To beleive in God means to see that life has a meaning.

Comments

[arpad.livejournal.com]

Well - let me try a less abstract question.

When your child will ask you about "What will happen when the universe collapse or become infinitely wide and cold (as accepted in modern physics)" - what will you tell? Certainly not about "go, chew some gum, that's a better axiom". And probably not about "for that crap - go to sinagogue, my dear" either.

So I suppose there is something special about this particular axiom.

[gera.livejournal.com]

I am not sure what you are getting at. I don't see how this question is less abstract or more meaningless and I truly don't see my child asking it. I sure never asked my Dad anything of the kind.
Do you really expect your child to ask it?
And if you do, what will you answer?

[arpad.livejournal.com]

Well, what I am definitely not getting into - is religious propaganda :)

I din't asked many existential questions from my Dad. Certainly not this one. But in my times future was seen as shiny, bright and full of wonders. So I had only big ugly question of DEATH to cope with. That remind me that I didn't asked about death too.

But idea of "universe without end" certainly bothered some people I know in their childhood. So don't think that the probability of a child asking that question is zero. I also think that the probability of a child thinking about such matters is very high. Telling adults - is another matter...

But I don't think that explaining in lucky case of asking will be easy. "Your school teacher is just an idiot" problem is a lot simpler in comparison :)