Answering Readers, Part 12

Biblical (תַּנַ״ךְ) depiction of
the flight from Sodom and Gomorrah

To Wrestle With God |
Friday – September 25, 2026

I believe that it is true to say that men that actually know how to view the world also very much find the need to struggle with God, and so this is why I have decided to answer one of my reader's questions about this, but more on that in a moment.

    This post is a part of my "Answering Readers series", and since I am running shorter and shorter on letters that you, the readers of this blog, have sent me, I would hope that you could continue to keep sending me letters, or else this series may just fade away... Again, I would prefer that you send your letters to me through the "contact form" attached to this page; this is mostly a defence against bots, since bots, generally at any rate, do not know how to send strings containing letters that make up useful and meaningful information through that contact form. You may send me an email on etherealinsight@protonmail.com, but I cannot guarantee that I will answer you in that case, since that inbox is mostly used by me to receive complaints, and I seldom respond to complaints. However I will state this, since this page is being actively buried I will monitor that email more and more, and on another note: because this page is being actively buried, it may become a necessity for me to move on to another platform, but for more on that later, at another time, read "Extremism". Again, I would prefer it if you could send me a letter with questions through the official "contact form". I will say this also, I have received some letters that did not contain any questions, and such letters are interesting but since they did not contain any question, I will simply not respond to them, and no, I do not have time to ask you if you had any question; if your letter does not contain any question, then I will not respond to it, generally. Again, I do have a life outside of this mission, read "Dreaming".

    As usual, I do have some rules when it comes to this series, and one of them is that I will sometimes find it necessary to substitute offensive language whenever I should quote entirely or partly a letter that I have received, and this will be indicated by the usage of two brackets, [text]. I will also sometimes skip certain portions of a letter because they contain sensitive and privileged information about the person addressing me in their letter, and this I will sometimes indicate with the usage of three dots inside two brackets, [...]. Again, these are rules that are not too hard, but I do tend to follow them. Another thing that I find it necessary to engage in while attempting to answer your questions, is conjecture, because many letters lack enough context, I often find it necessary to add conjecture to the letters; this is important information, as me not doing so would often make it quite meaningless to even attempt to answer your letters. Again, you may call this a form of editorialization, and I would not disagree, although this is more about keeping to a certain and predictable standard more than some trying to uphold some kind of protection racket; in fact, I believe that people ought to stand up for their words, read "Notes on Reading".

    Now, the letter that I am going to respond to in this post is not exactly purplish in its prose, which is always good from the point of view of gaining and retaining as much useful information as possible, but I also find the obvious lack of poetic ornamentation to be so lacking that I will have to engage in some substantial amount of conjecture in order to responds in a meaningful way to this letter. So, this will mean that you should take this into account, as I may be completely wrong about certain details, details that unfortunately have been left out in this letter, and details that otherwise would have been quite useful. This is why I prefer for people who address me with questions to give me as much information as possible, but this does not mean personal and/or privileged information, and this is why I actually find very little use of people revealing their name. But in this letter the author has given me permission to use their name, and so I will. Actually, the author of this letter is a man, and so I should perhaps be more clear in addressing him back. Yes, I like this kind of correspondence, but too many details can sometimes be better than almost no details at all.

    Mr. Bert Pierce asks:

"Hello Mr. Mohandas C. Dutt, I am writing to you because I want to find out what the meaning of life is? Am I destined to fall into the abyss? Should I believe in a God?" — Bert Pierce.

Oh yes, Mr. Pierce, you have just raised one of the most profound and enduring questions that have faced each man that has walked the earth: what is the meaning of life? Is there a God, an almighty creator, a force far beyond the range of human power. And the abyss... Yes, I gather that you have been quite anxious, and in such moments the abyss is always staring us in the face, or rather we are looking right down it, and yes it is quite understandable why a man in our 21st century should doubt the existence of God: after all, why should we need a God in this seemingly predictable and mechanical universe, read "Mechanical Procedures", can we not live on our own without the intervention of some almighty force? Yes, these are all legitimate questions, and I am not sure that I am going to be able to answer your questions in a satisfactory way, but I do believe that I am going to be able to at least address some of your concerns.

    First of all and as I stated just above, your concerns are valid, to borrow a modern phraseology, and I believe that it is true that these questions tend to inhabit a place that is populated by a triad of darkness, depression, anxiety, and lust. Yes, and I have answered a similar letter already from July this year that you could read as well. If indeed it is true that you happen to find yourself in the same company as these dark and demonic thoughts, then you should always begin by asking yourself this: how did I end up here? Now, some people were essentially born this way, and these people could be referred to as being born into a kind of solidification and obsolescence, people who are destined to lose themselves to the currents of time, and to them I can only say this: your time is in the past, read "The End of History". Now, I do not believe that your time is in the past Mr. Pierce, because a man who is lost to history would not wonder about these things. In fact, such a man would not attempt to understand the meaning of divine providence, and so you are not lost on the road to enlightenment, at least not yet.

    I will not be able to make the case for God in this post, as this would take far too much time, but I will say that if you choose to not believe in a God, then so be it, but in that instance you would be better off being a staunch atheist, rather than being one of those "new age" bohemians dabbling in witchcraft and bastard mysticism, read "Pseudoscience". I think that this secular and material point of view is unlikely to provide your life any kind of meaning, but this would also hold true for religion, read "Should You Have Faith", because religion is essentially a secular bastardization of Knowledge, but this is also a point beyond the scope of this post. I will say this though: I believe that it is a mistake for you, and for any man, to search for meaning, because the world, the corporeal world, is perfectly meaningless on its own, and to that extent mechanism is quite useful in actually approximating the world and the absence of anything beyond its conjecture and calculation. This means that you have two options: either you leave your current obsession, your current and likely obsession, with the material world behind, read "Should You Retire From the World?", and embark on the path of the student following the sage; or you simply indulge in materialism, read "Transhumanism", and this would entail that your need to find meaning would become pushed away by the continual disruption of the modern world, and this is actually how most people "cope" with life, they simply succumb to their many addictions, thus most people accept the fact that life must be quite sordid. I should then add, if you decide, if we assume that there is such a thing as "free will" for a moment, to go with the later option, then yes you will fall into the abyss, but you might just be able to distract yourself enough to barely notice it on your way to complete solidification; but if you instead choose the former path, then I cannot guarantee that you will not fall into the abyss, but I can at least say that you will be less likely to. Now, go on your way and take all of these words, this advice, with you on your wayward travel through life.

Reginald Drax (AKA, M. C. Dutt) – September 25, 2026.