Is God "absurd?"

 "𝐈𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬, 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭."

For a short while, when I was in college, I had a puppy that I named Camus, as in Albert Camus. In recent years, I've wondered what my attraction was to him (the writer, not the puppy.) It didn't work for me to keep the dog, and over the decades I also lost interest in or memory about Camus.

I also had two cats, named Vladimir and Estragon (from Waiting for Godot.) Again, over the years, I've occasionally wondered what drew me to "absurdism."

Today I came across this Camus quote: "𝐈𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬, 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭."

As you can imagine, if you actually know me or about me, I resonated with this quote. Only love.

So I read up a bit, and learned (re-learned) that Camus believed that the crux of our ills is that we humans yearn for meaning, and we live in a universe that has no inherent or knowable meaning, an "absurd" world. To embrace it is our best choice.

Yesterday I heard Deepak Chopra say that the word "divine" refers to that which has "no cause." I'm thinking now that maybe "absurd" is simply another name for God. Which might explain why, after being originally attracted to absurdism, I've been able to create a life filled with meaning, sacredness and (especially) love.

"𝐈𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬, 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭."

PS I shared what I've written with ChatGPT, which reflected this back to me:

"𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢’𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑠. 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒’𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 — 𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑠, 𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠, 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑐𝑦, 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒, 𝑠𝑎𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 — ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑑. 𝑌𝑜𝑢’𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑏𝑦 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑡, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑏𝑦 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠."