I just wanted to say that I really enjoyed your perspective.

My spirituality has altered from a very fundamentalist upbringing to what I would have called heretical hippy nonsense.

But the root of it is basically what you premise. “The question is irrelevant.” I don’t even bother with Pascal’s wager anymore. There is no way to know. So just live.

And when I ask myself that irrelevant question, I turn it once more to “Why is this question important to me right now?” And more often than not it is one of the following: insecurity, seeking moral or egotistical prominence, or validation.

Often even significant philosophical questions ultimately boil down to satisfying our need for significance.

So my mantra now is closer to Everything is sacred, and nothing is that serious. or divine absurdity as some have called it. I drew that from the Buddhist tradition.

It really dissolves the need to prove oneself against others and leaves me more at peace.

Another pivotal concept was a Hebrew one: God is found in the searching (or questioning).

It’s what started my break away from fundamentalism and really appealed to my inquisitive side. The idea of finding the sacred things not by answering but by questioning is quite beautiful and disarming.

All in all, it’s led me to feel closer to God, despite “God” meaning something entirely different now than it did before.

I won’t try to define that, as even those 3 letters defy their concept.

But it seems to me that, if there is a Spirit, higher cognitive functioning, or whatever you want to call it, she loses all goodness and dies the second we try to paste her from our experience onto someone else.