Materialism Is Incomplete Even As A Theory

Life May Be Not Only Meaningless But Absurd.

The Problem Is One Of Opposition Between Subjective And Objective Points Of View. There Is A Tendency To Seek An Objective Account Of Everything Before Admitting Its Reality. But Often What Appears To A More Subjective Point Of View Cannot Be Accounted For In This Way. So Either The Objective Conception Of The World Is Incomplete, Or The Subjective Involves Illusions That Should Be Rejected.

Once We See An Aspect Of What We Or Someone Else Does As Something That Happens, We Lose Our Grip On The Idea That It Has Been Done And That We Can Judge The Doer And Not Just The Happening.

The More Details We Learn About The Chemical Basis Of Life And The Intricacy Of The Genetic Code, The More Unbelievable The Standard Historical Account Becomes

The External View [of Agency] Forces Itself On Us At The Same Time That We Resist It. One Way This Occurs Is Through The Gradual Erosion Of What We Do By The Subtraction Of What Happens.