--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In the "Can atheists be nice?" thread, Curtis and I have > been rappin' about wonder. Another word for wonder is > "mystery." It seems to me that life presents us with such > a mystery, one that can never be resolved. It's my conten- > tion that one can't find a real "solution" to life's mystery, > because the very nature of life *itself* is irresolveable > mystery. No matter which "solution" you find, if you dive > into it deeply enough, it opens to Yet Another Mystery.
Which is, of course, what theists call God: the infinite regress of Mystery. That's what generates their sense of wonder.
