Graham Pemberton
1 min readNov 6, 2021

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Apologies for the delay.

Thanks for the clarifications, especially your understanding of the term Cosmicism itself. Your description of it as an unvarnished interpretation was one of my concerns. It's sometimes hard to pin down precisely your position from a single article. Is there a revised name for your current worldview?

We will obviously have different understandings of meaning given our starting positions. Your phrase 'virtually supernatural' is interesting. I don't think that true meaning can be created by humans, rather it's the acceptance of something coming from elsewhere, dare I say 'higher'? So words like 'destiny' and 'fate' are meaningful. The type of meaning that comes from an atheistic starting point, e.g. Sartrean Existentialism, is merely the best that humans can come up with under the circumstances, as you say in an attempt to transcend the sorrows of cosmicism.

"Everything's natural in metaphysical terms, for the naturalist". Indeed, almost by definition. It's whether other levels exist, that might be distinguished from what the naturalist calls nature.

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Graham Pemberton
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