Pretty sure that Robert was reading David Hume when he wrote this. Hume was an 18th century philosopher who wrote that the laws of nature were neither reasonable nor unreasonable, they simply were. We're born with no innate knowledge of things, so our ideas and expectations can only be gathered from what we experience to a degree. From this there's no way to draw any reasonable conclusions that God does or doesn't exist, but of course the human condition dictates that people will always want something more or use that to explain things.
totally agree. he's saying we can't know but we as humans are looking for meaning and connections. But any sentiment we ascribe to the chaos that is the world is not definitively true.
This idea applied to the lyrics about it not being enough to live on in others' memories is pretty powerful. I think he's saying that you need to exist and live without worrying about some sort of truth, just doing things you believe to be right in the moment.
taoist in action (simply existing in the world) but i dont think it is in thought (taoism believes there to...
totally agree. he's saying we can't know but we as humans are looking for meaning and connections. But any sentiment we ascribe to the chaos that is the world is not definitively true.
This idea applied to the lyrics about it not being enough to live on in others' memories is pretty powerful. I think he's saying that you need to exist and live without worrying about some sort of truth, just doing things you believe to be right in the moment.
taoist in action (simply existing in the world) but i dont think it is in thought (taoism believes there to be a fundamental truth)
Pretty sure that Robert was reading David Hume when he wrote this. Hume was an 18th century philosopher who wrote that the laws of nature were neither reasonable nor unreasonable, they simply were. We're born with no innate knowledge of things, so our ideas and expectations can only be gathered from what we experience to a degree. From this there's no way to draw any reasonable conclusions that God does or doesn't exist, but of course the human condition dictates that people will always want something more or use that to explain things.
totally agree. he's saying we can't know but we as humans are looking for meaning and connections. But any sentiment we ascribe to the chaos that is the world is not definitively true. This idea applied to the lyrics about it not being enough to live on in others' memories is pretty powerful. I think he's saying that you need to exist and live without worrying about some sort of truth, just doing things you believe to be right in the moment. taoist in action (simply existing in the world) but i dont think it is in thought (taoism believes there to...
totally agree. he's saying we can't know but we as humans are looking for meaning and connections. But any sentiment we ascribe to the chaos that is the world is not definitively true. This idea applied to the lyrics about it not being enough to live on in others' memories is pretty powerful. I think he's saying that you need to exist and live without worrying about some sort of truth, just doing things you believe to be right in the moment. taoist in action (simply existing in the world) but i dont think it is in thought (taoism believes there to be a fundamental truth)