the avoidance of pain and suffering

One big thing that i'm dealing with is depression. It's not easy to hold some of the ideas I do and not be. But i've always felt that while it's important to try to be positive about the gift of life that God has given us, we have to face the facts of reality and not use 'Hope as a great falsifier' as Balthasar Gracian would say.

We are not living historically in a 'post Dark Ages' environment, we are living in a true 'Dark Age', made 'more brutal and more protracted by the lights of a perverted Science' that Churchill feared if the Nazis won.

We fell into this because of our worldliness and materialism, which stems from our natural avoidance of pain and suffering. If we eat enough, play enough, fornicate enough....Maybe we won't have to face life and life's Author. We live as if life is just a parenthesis between Nothing and Nothing, given meaning only by ourselves. We are all becoming Atheists, living is if He did not Exist. Only we don't have the courage of a Neitzsche to say so.

The Answer is Jesus Christ, without whom life is absurd and false. With Him I possess a Joy that the World does not know and cannot take away. With Him, I have hope of final victory if I run the race to the end.