Imbibed, Embedded, and Projected: Meaning as Cathexis Complexes

“Does one need to believe in a god to live a fulfilling, meaningful, morally correct and upright human life?”

One of the more tentative conclusions, the question seems poorly formulated and quintessentially a North American one. I suspect influenced more by Judeo-Christian evaluations of the important items on the dossier of life. As America and Canada remain Christian dominant, or Christian majority population, nations while not Christian nations per se, whether in founding documents or in Founding Fathers (can be shown in either case), the narratives of the Old Testament and the New Testament and the life of Jesus Christ — no doubt — provide a guide to life and living from womb to tomb (Thanks, Cornell), often in select interpretations, for Christians. Duly note, I am not Christian in the sense accepted by my compatriots if I took on the garb, the title, though some interpretations of Christianity, e.g., Christian Humanism, seem palatable, even laudable, sophisticated, and intriguing.

The formulation of the question leads to two things.

A famous non-sense question in linguistics is, “Do colorless green ideas sleep furiously?” A non-sense question compared to sensible questions including “Does Mars orbit closer to the Sun in the Solar System than Uranus or Haumea?”, “Does Euclidean Geometry and its derivative in the Pythagorean Theorem map onto the real world?”, “Does cheating on a Winter examination violate university academic standards and practices as well as internal, personal ethical…