Reply To: Personal Spiritual belief

[Lapis Lazuli]

Thank you for the replies to my question.  I probably shouldn't say more, since the last thing I want to do is argue my negativity onto other people, but I'll mention that as a higher purpose of last resort, there is self-sacrifice.  I wonder whether, had I made that my higher purpose of first resort when I was young, I would have avoided the spiritual and intellectual dead ends that prompt the questions above, and from which I don't foresee escape.  It would be satisfying to be able to transfer the life within the perfectly healthy body I am not using for any purpose to someone who is filled with a sense of purpose but whose physical disabilities may prevent them from fulfilling it.  Perhaps technology will make this possible one day.  Could voluntary human sacrifice to the gods have been the desperate and misguided attempts by people in this condition to deal with the conundrum of transferring life to others in the past?  In the meantime, an unhealthy mind occupying a healthy body feels like such a waste.

I mentioned the character Private Witt from the movie The Thing Red Line (one of whose subjects is the modern ritual of mass human sacrifice through state warfare) in another thread as someone to be admired, but on further reflection, he would be someone worthy of emulation, or even ego integration, as well.  He not only succeeded in transferring his life to another, but multiplied his life by sacrificing it for many others in his company when he used himself as a decoy.  Life doesn't present opportunities like that very often though.