Djana has no illusions in the Terran Empire and becomes disillusioned, first with the Merseian Roidhunate, then with Dominic Flandry, but why does she conclude:
"'It's a strange feeling...to learn, once and forever, that there's no one who cares. Not even You." (p. 365)?
Some people would believe all the more that God cared when they thought that no one else did. However, individual responses are unpredictable. Religious world views are based either in sub-rational emotions or in supra-rational experiences but not in reason. Christians are asked to believe despite any apparently contradictory evidence whereas, scientifically, an unfalsifiable theory is meaningless. A work colleague's Catholic faith ended when her young son died.
We persevere with a meditation practice because we trust that it is beneficial but would not persevere indefinitely if the practice had never made any difference to us or to anyone else.
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Paul:
"There can't possibly be any meaning in this world. But isn't that wonderful in its own right? Because if there isn't any, we can find our own."
— Spoken by a character in So Ra No Wo To (Sound of the Sky), an anime set in a post-apocalyptic world.
I'm not one hundred percent sure this is appropriate to your comments, but it seemed to me to be approaching the same lines.
David,
Very appropriate.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
I would have some sympathy for Djana's sense of disillusionment while disagreeing with them. I would agree that Flandry should have shown more tact or sensitivity to her while also thinking Djana overreacted. IOW, and annoyingly, neither person was wholly wrong or at fault.
As a Catholic I would have argued to people like Djana and your former colleague that since God sent His Son to become man for our sake, die on the Cross, and rise from the dead, that is the supreme proof of how much God cares about us.
Ad astra! Sean
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