7:52 AM (23 October) few days ago, Woody Allen's packed with wonderful economy his whole world view in these words: "What you see is what you get," that is what you see is all there is. He further said that those who believe that there is something else, such as what is offered by religions, they are lucky because usually find some comfort in this, but he is not one of them.
I asked him to elaborate a bit 'these concepts, but he did not want to do it. So I will try to do it, for the simple reason that its main clause consenting to find me one hundred percent. But I do not exactly agree on the idea that religions necessarily represent a comfort, and leave this discrepancy to add a few words.
First, there is such a quantity of things to see around us, I do not understand why we should go hence to seek the other. But if I want more, just look up to heaven and think of the most rudimentary elements of astronomy to be at the same time, overwhelmed by a sense of wonder and amazement. Then there's a lot of stuff I do not see, but we know it exists, and this gives us a vast field on which to engage profitably thought.
It 'true that the things we see, or suppose that we are, we do not understand in fondo assolutamente nulla. Questa, anzi, è l’unica ragione per cui abbiamo il diritto di accettare le fantasie religiose: le une in certo senso valgono le altre (mi pare che il primo a sostenere questa equivalenza fu Sant’Agostino).
Purtroppo, però, le idee consolatorie derivanti dalle religioni sono in genere molto insipide. Di tutte le religioni che io conosco, forse la consolazione più concreta è quella maschilista proposta dalla religione mussulmana, le giovani urì che ci diletteranno in paradiso; ed è tutto dire. Il paradiso offerto dalla religione cristiana è di una vacuità e di una noia senza pari. Non un solo verso di Dante quando descrive l’empireo è passato alla storia. Le Eastern religions offer us finally to free existence after a large number of incarnations, but the comfort next is unclear. The Jewish religion, at least, has the good sense not to ensure no heaven.
On the other hand, try it yourself to evoke otherworldly consolations of the best, and you will find hard to even imagine, unless they are not the same ones that we experience in life, what would be a contradiction in terms. But if you find them, please let me know.
I suspect, however, that religion has a hand inherently negative. A resort to force it, force it to divert to that is a part of our thoughts, we decrease the amount of attention that we should turn instead to the things around us, whether we understand them, that is not, and I think if the place of religious practices in deliberate efforts to organize themselves, individual or collective appreciation of life, this would coll 'have a soothing effect no less mystical abstractions.
One consequence of the idea "what you see is what you get" is, on the other hand, it puts the emphasis on the fact that both of us, that everything around us, we are part of nature. This in turn can lead to some interesting assumptions about our role in the world, and the difference between living and what we non vive. Se mi sentirò di farlo ne parlerò un’altra volta.
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