What Are You Without God?: How to Discredit Religious Thought and Rebuild Your Identity by Christopher Krzeminski

Author:Christopher Krzeminski [Krzeminski, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion, Spirituality, Atheism, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy, Non-Fiction
ISBN: 9780615789453
Google: LAVbmwEACAAJ
Amazon: 0615789455
Barnesnoble: 0615789455
Goodreads: 17804307
Publisher: CEK Books
Published: 2013-03-31T00:00:00+00:00

Living in the Moment

A necessary corollary of the experience of convergence is one’s increased value for time, specifically the time he has to live. By burning the imaginary ships of his future escape, one feels compelled to act in the present to experience the world and remedy the ills or injustices that he may perceive. To live in the moment is not an expression of indifference to anything that may occur in the future; rather, it represents the acceptance of the present as the only location in which anyone ever exists. Tomorrow never truly comes, and even the moment that just passed is long gone. Living in the moment signifies the acknowledgement of this chronology.

To the extent that living in the moment gives a person a connotation of carefree and footloose hedonism, that treatment of the expression is rejected in this discussion. Its meaning here implies valuing action over hope, urgency over hesitation, and directness over side-stepping. To live in the moment is to take no instant for granted because one is never distracted from his purposeful action in any one of them with hesitation with respect to the past or the future. It is a technique of nurturing purpose by constantly giving effect to it.

Of course, the concept is an asymptotic ideal that one can never truly reach because people have both strong memories as well as stressful concerns about the future, but its practical lesson is that one’s excessive dwelling on the past and future aspects of his life steals from his present. If one follows such a pattern to the extreme, he could easily wake up one day and wonder how his entire life has passed him by, and the answer is that it did so while he was functionally ignoring it.

Living in the moment is an emotional readjustment to compensate for the loss of the implicit guarantee of religious thought that one’s consciousness will never terminate. In the religious worldview, one’s present moments are diluted into worthlessness by being covered by an avalanche of them. After all, how could one take much interest in any one thing when he has an infinite number of them? Where is the value? What religious thought bills as providing infinitely more actually makes a person value his chances for action in life infinitely less by destroying the value he would have ordinarily placed in his finite time.

By discarding religious thought and living in the moment, the natural value of the present returns to its original, unadulterated concentration, and one celebrates the restoration of his natural equilibrium by filling his moments with purposeful action. One’s actions are the manner in which he attempts to give effect to his meanings in life, and simply because necessary implications of those meanings extend into the future does not mean that the person is failing to live in the moment. Living in the moment is an expression of concentrating all of one’s action and emotion in the now in order to achieve the goals that one so desires, whatever they may be and whenever he expects to realize them.

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