Confusion (9 of 10)
Series: Anatomy of the Soul
Dave Gustavsen
Psalm 119
We are taking this summer to walk through the book of Psalms. We’ve been saying every week that the Psalms address just about every emotion and experience we go through. And the Psalm we’re going to look at today is actually the answer to something that people back then struggled with, but I think people today struggle with even more. It’s all about how to deal with confusion.
There is a popular YouTube channel called The Pursuit of Wonder. It promotes the philosophical view called existentialism, and last time I checked, it had 2.1 million subscribers. So I want to read you the script from the beginning of one of the videos on that channel-see if this rings true to you:
Now more than ever we are exposed to a plethora of ideas about life. The Internet has made it so we can consume a seemingly unending amount of content on the topic of living most effectively. However, simultaneously, this access to information has also allowed the consumer to realize just how conflicting most ideas are.
In the West, the popularity of traditional religion (has) reduced as a result. (And) for many, the increasing access to information has revealed that the world is basically without any discernible truth, and most ideas about how to live are inconclusive and unreliable. It is fair to speculate that this could be a major contributing factor to the modern world’s increasing levels of anxiety, cynicism, and disillusion.
Choosing between conflicting ideas of how to live has always been an issue for the individual. But in the modern world, where conflicting ideas are constantly smacking us in the face, now more than ever we can often find ourselves failing in our attempt to find footing in this reality.
That’s pretty spot-on, isn’t it? You would think that having access to all this information would make us so smart and so wise, but it seems to just be making us more confused. Now: because th ...
Series: Anatomy of the Soul
Dave Gustavsen
Psalm 119
We are taking this summer to walk through the book of Psalms. We’ve been saying every week that the Psalms address just about every emotion and experience we go through. And the Psalm we’re going to look at today is actually the answer to something that people back then struggled with, but I think people today struggle with even more. It’s all about how to deal with confusion.
There is a popular YouTube channel called The Pursuit of Wonder. It promotes the philosophical view called existentialism, and last time I checked, it had 2.1 million subscribers. So I want to read you the script from the beginning of one of the videos on that channel-see if this rings true to you:
Now more than ever we are exposed to a plethora of ideas about life. The Internet has made it so we can consume a seemingly unending amount of content on the topic of living most effectively. However, simultaneously, this access to information has also allowed the consumer to realize just how conflicting most ideas are.
In the West, the popularity of traditional religion (has) reduced as a result. (And) for many, the increasing access to information has revealed that the world is basically without any discernible truth, and most ideas about how to live are inconclusive and unreliable. It is fair to speculate that this could be a major contributing factor to the modern world’s increasing levels of anxiety, cynicism, and disillusion.
Choosing between conflicting ideas of how to live has always been an issue for the individual. But in the modern world, where conflicting ideas are constantly smacking us in the face, now more than ever we can often find ourselves failing in our attempt to find footing in this reality.
That’s pretty spot-on, isn’t it? You would think that having access to all this information would make us so smart and so wise, but it seems to just be making us more confused. Now: because th ...
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