Everyone Prays, Eventually
Scott Adams and Naval Ravikant admit to praying to God, despite not believing.
Scott Adams and Naval Ravikant admitted they pray to God—or at least speak to someone unseen whom they sense must be listening.
This is interesting because both Scott and Naval share a secular, Palo Alto kind of worldview (each with their own flavor of simulation, determinism, energy theories, etc.).
And yet they went on as far as to suggest that everyone has this type of “prayer” conversation.
What they haven’t seemed to realize, though, is what others find obvious. . .
The center of the soul has an unrestrainable need demanding satisfaction:
It must converse with someone beyond itself.
Why? Because the soul is not its own last end. Its end is the living God, and it cannot fully rest except in Him.
Ironically, Naval referenced St. Augustine on this show, yet he seems unfamiliar with Augustine's work—or the writings of the greatest theologian, St. Thomas Aquinas.
Sooo close, yet so far.
Could you imagine what would happen if Silicon Valley geniuses took the time to wrestle with the writings of Aquinas?
Supercharged by the acquisition of Classical Truth and wielding their weapons-grade linguistic talent, they could tactically nuke the lingering vestiges of sophist philosophy in elite circles—a transformation that would ripple downstream through society and usher in the Golden Age.
At least one can dream.
Drago