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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Messages Home Explore 9 Notifications 1 Messages Grok Lists Bookmarks Communities Premium Profile More Post Sean Onamade @OnamadeSean Post See new posts Conversation Vivid Void @VividVoid_ It only takes a few moments of introspection to become aware of the vast, yawning emptiness that abides at the center of your heart. Every adult feels it. Most of us experience it as the pain of grief, and do anything we can to avoid feeling it. This is because postmodern people, enamored of the frigid faith of scientific rationalism and its dead, mechanistic world, experience the void as a loss. It feels like a hole in the heart, a raw wound that can only be temporarily soothed by sex, drugs, conformity, and most recently, the bright stimuli of our screens. The void has a place in our collective history that we perceive as the death of God, the death of external meaning. And it has a place in the emotional body that we perceiv

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