Filling up "The Void"

The verbal and symbolic mode of consciousness, the human "mind", essentially falls into a "divide by 0" kind of scenario when trying to address the big questions of life, like why are "we" (that is the human minds) here, or what happens to the mind when the body dies? It's analogous to a divide by zero because it's undefinable in verbal and symbolic terms. (video of mechanical calculator divide by zero)

Those big questions are fundamental to human life, but are unanswerable. That doesn't stop anyone from trying though, obviously. That animates much of human behavior. Religions like Christianity try to fill up that void with an assertion from a corporation, like the catholic church, and then physically penalized people who didn't go along with their assertion. For example, the catholics in france slaughtered the Cathars because of their divergent views about particular aspects of the official story book of Christianity.

That sort of corporate definition of "truth" is really an interesting and unfortunate component of "western" people who often claim the label of "free".

Cult like religions follow a similar approach, but it's usually a minority, often a small minority of the population who adhere to the assertions of perhaps an individual. Mormonism was like that, Zionism today is like that: the zionists are basically a death cult like Aum Shinrikyo. There's an unfortunate tendency for Mormons to go off the rails into extreme cult-like behavior.

In 1666 there was a jewish cult leader named Sabbatai Zevi who captured something like 50% of the european jews with his antinomian teaching. It's pretty likely that cult never really went away and is still quite prominent. Today, the zionists brainwash children that everyone else in the world wants to kill them, so they have license to kill everyone else first. One of their prime cult leaders is the prime minister of Israel who likens their country to ancient Sparta--which is some weird LARPer fantasy. The cult leaders in these scenarios is in the weirdest position with respect to this divide by zero problem. They are necessarily aware their ideas are nonsense they feed to their insane followers, but find some satisfaction in duping people maybe even to their early demise to give them ersatz "meaning".

Anyway, for a thinking person, it's unlikely these cult formulas would provide a satisfactory answer to the "Big Questions". They're more like a distraction, or an "activity", rather than something that would fill up that void. Like the catholic religion in medieval times, the "believer" has "faith" in some crackpot's particular assertions.

Several philosophers, and philosophical schools put this void, or divide by zero problem at the center of their endeavors and then don't really try to fill it up at all. This, to me, seems like the wisest approach. Yes, your life is meaningless. Pick up a fossil sometime and think about an ancient trilobite swimming around in Devonian era tropical seas 300 million years ago. The "mind" can freak out at its insignificance (which is why there are those death cults and corporate religions). Many people equate this divide by zero scenario with "fear of death". I think that's the wrong interpretation.

When you couple that divide by zero scenario with the need for recognition, which for some people is all-consuming then leads to the fabrication of elaborate fantasies and lashing out. The Zionist jews are the best example of this right now.

To me, the most sane approach to this divide by zero problem is to retire from the madness of crowds and organizations and to go live a free, minimalist, and interesting as possible life. There are numerous examples of people who decided to do that. Dick Proenneke is a good recent example.