Why I Love "Existentialism!!!"

I love existentialism.  I love the freedom that we have as human beings to question.  If we did not question, we would not know, and we would be a weak and feeble species indeed.  But we do.  It is fundamental for humanity to question, and the first questions, we know, were about purpose in life.  When we look at cave paintings, we see many bison and antelope, but we see man wearing the heads of such animals.  Why? 

Apparently, Man, in this cave dwelling variety, attributed sacred powers to these beasts that were the source of food, warmth, and many other practical uses we are unsure of.  But the surety of the cave dwellers has always been a doubt, but a true existentialist will know that existentialism did not begin in the 20^th century, no, it began with the most prehistoric man, disconnected from any source of knowledge and truth, who went to great lengths to beautify, in a manner of mysticism, the walls of their caves in resolve to their yearning to know, to understand, as they are essentially linked to us, and we want to know, to be human is to want to know.

Plato used the allegory of the cave in his existentialism and painted the idea of three men chained in a cave.  There was a wall in front of them and behind, a fire.  Certain beings and objects would pass behind these men and in front of the fire casting a shadow onto the wall in front of the men.  According to Plato, these shadows on the wall were as close as we as human beings will get to true reality in mortality.  Authentic forms, such as virtue, exist in the cosmos, but we will never see these, only the shadows on the wall.  Incidentally, when the three men were set free, they were struck forcibly by what lay in front of them, dazzled and mystified.

It is the 21^st century and humanity is asking the same questions that the earliest prehistoric man asked, the quandary Plato presented, and all of the questions asked of reality from every reach of the globe for the past 2500 years.  From out of those questions there was for a time, an answer.  This was the Meridian of Time.  This was the time of Christ.  It was the answer as Christ was fulfilling his earthly mission for a brief 33 years and what he left in his wake was truth.  The God who manifests reality left for humanity truth. 

Humanity was not ready for it.  And most of humanity today will still not accept it to the core of their being.  If only they would listen and learn.  Humanity wants these answers that we have.  Their purpose is gnawing at them.  Their stigmas that there is no truth, and reality is relative, and the “death of God” rule the popular thinking of today’s vernacular.  When we ask, do you want to know the truth, but they learn that it comes from Mormons, the ears are shut and the mind is closed.  Only because they lack vision.

The “educated” and “literate” world thinks laughingly of the aged ideas of heaven as fluffy clouds and cupid angels.  They think of a bearded God sitting on a golden throne amassed in white.  They think of a devil spearing the innocent with his minions in lakes of fire in a subterranean world.  And they think of a Jesus who “saves” some way, some how.  And of course, to them, these are all absurdities and the whole thing is a fallacy of the past, and today, no educated thinker would dabble in such absurdity.

They do not realize that heaven is not above… it is everywhere… it is beyond the veil, it is beyond space and time, it is a place where spirits, something that the educated are all too quick to profess that “I am spiritual but don’t believe in religion,” where these spirits dwell in wondrous heavenly realities that have existed before time and ours awaits us.  They are not idle on clouds but engage happily and whole-heartedly in the Lord’s work. 

God, whom is to say, whom is to question his omnipotence, his omniscience, his omnipresence?  None of us on earth have any vantage point beyond the veil so whom is to question what God, our Heavenly Father, the embodiment of celestial love, can and cannot do?  Who is to say he cannot answer all prayers?  Who is to say he cannot bless all and take care of all of his children, after all, he is our father? 

And the Savior, we have his 33 years of mortality to learn from, we have prophesies and his visitation to the Americas, but we have something more.  From Christ, God of all Gods and manifestation of reality itself, without whom not a grain of sand would have ever floated upon any shore, not a leaf to stir in any wind, not a single heart to beat with love, it is from him, whom we understand the least yet is the embodiment of the sublime and is with me right now just as he is with you, so great is his mercy and love; he empowers us with the Spirit which speaks for him so we may know!

We may know truth!  We may find answers!  We might find resolve for any troubled mind or spirit!  We might find solutions!  We might find reason!  We may find personal purpose!  We may know just who we are as sons and daughters of God and how to live this life as is our own personal best and do our own personal best to one day be cradled in the arms of our Savior and feel a feeling of total reality… that… is worth living a life deliberately that requires asking questions.