I think we ought to start off.
我想我们应该开始吧。
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by being frank,
坦率地说，
we all would like the music to keep going right,
我们都希望音乐继续正确，
but all good things come to an end and so does a good program.
但是所有美好的事情都会结束，一个好的计划也会结束。
I would like to talk to you tonight and after we're done after I'm done with with my explanation of the Christian faith,
今晚，在我完成了对基督教信仰的解释之后，我想和你谈 谈，
there's going to be a musical interlude and then we have to.
这将是一个音乐插曲然后我们必须。
we have a mic here and a mic here and after that musical interlude.
我们这里有麦克风和麦克风，然后是音乐插曲。
we're going to have hopefully about 15-20 minutes in which,
我们希望大约15-20分钟，其中，
if you have questions you'd like to ask me,
如果你有问题，你想问我，
come on down and use the mic now.
来吧，现在使用麦克风。
obviously,
明显，
if you get down here I'll,
如果你到这里我会，
be able to hear you,
能听到你的声音，
the reason for the mic is so that everybody else can hear the question and we'll have so we'll have 15-20 minutes,
麦克风的原因是所有人都可以听到这个问题，我们将有这 样的话，我们将有15-20分钟，
at least in which you can come in and talk back to me.
至少你可以进来和我说话。
what I'd like to like to present this thesis Miguel de Cervantes Albert Camus,
我想提出这篇论文Miguel de Cervant es Albert Camus，
Aldous Huxley,
奥尔德斯赫胥黎
Tolstoy,
托尔斯泰，
a Voltaire Shakespeare,
伏尔泰莎士比亚，
Jesus Christ?
耶稣基督？
they all have one thing in common they all have one message in common.
他们都有一个共同点，他们都有一个共同的信息。
they know that the average person is so busy in both work and play that you ratchet around for years and years without asking yourself what is my reason for doing all this?
他们知道普通人在工作和娱乐方面都非常忙碌，你多年来 一直在喋喋不休，却没有问自己这样做的理由是什么？
what is my reason for life?
我生命的理由是什么？
what is the reason?
是什么原因？
I'm doing anything and everything?
我在做什么，什么都做？
what's my whole life about or put it another way,
什么是我的整个生活或换句话说，
when all is said and done,
当一切已经说过并且做完了，
what will I have really accomplished?
我将取得什么成就？
why am I getting up in the morning?
我为什么早上起床？
what's my reason for life when I,
当我，我的生活理由是什么？
what do they all have in common they all they all know.
他们所有人都知道他们共同拥有什么。
they're all great thinkers and all the great thinkers realize that most of us run around and we're afraid to ask that question.
他们都是伟大的思想家，所有伟大的思想家都意识到我们 大多数人都跑来跑去，我们害怕提出这个问题。
what am I really getting to?
我到底是怎么回事？
what am I really accomplishing?
我到底在做什么？
what's my reason for doing things a good example of that is,
我做事的一个好例子的原因是，
if I saw one of you after the service and after the program here,
如果我在服务之后和之后看到你们中的一个人，
I said you tomorrow at 2:30 meet me at the corner of 86th and Park,
我明天2:30在86号和公园角落见到我，
and you said why I said I just meet me there you'd want to know the reason and you're busy,
你说为什么我说我只是在那里见到你，你想知道原因，你 很忙，
probably be very busy people you're doing a lot of important things and you would say hey if I'm going to spend my time.
可能是非常忙碌的人，你做了很多重要的事情，如果我要 花时间，你会说嘿。
if I'm going to spend an hour getting to see you seeing you and getting back or more,
如果我要花一个小时的时间来看到你看到你并回来或更多 ，
there has to be a reason for it or I'm not going to do it.
必须有理由，或者我不打算这样做。
okay,
好的，
that's that's fair enough you want a reason,
这是公平的，你想要一个理由，
and yet,
但是，
if I ask most of you,
如果我问大多数人，
what is your reason for your whole life?
你一生的理由是什么？
what is the reason you're doing your job?
你在做什么工作的原因是什么？
what is the reason that you're getting married?
你结婚的原因是什么？
why is the reason you want to get marry?
你想结婚的原因是什么？
what are you after,
你是做什么的，
when your life is all over what we have really accomplished?
什么时候你的生活已经结束了我们真正的成就？
many many of you will not be able to give an answer.
很多人都无法给出答案。
you want to know the reason for me to meet you.
你想知道我见到你的原因。
you want to know a reason for that hour.
你想知道那个小时的原因。
you want justification for you,
你想为你辩护，
you can't justify your own life now,
你现在无法为自己的生活辩护，
who am I talking to I'm talking to people in general because that's the message of the great thinkers.
我和谁说话我和一般人说话，因为这是伟大思想家的信息 。
let me give you a quick example.
让我举个简单的例子。
this Tolstoy I've got I've got a series of quotes here.
这托尔斯泰我得到了这里的一系列报价。
they're long quotes,
他们是长报价，
you know why,
你知道为什么，
because it's Tolstoy all right,
因为托尔斯泰可以，
1879 Tolstoy wrote his confessions so somewhat near the end of his life,
1879年托尔斯泰在他的生命即将结束时写下了他的忏 悔，
and he talked about a huge collapse crisis that he had in his life when he was about fifty years old and he says this he said he'd been actually living quite a life,
他谈到了他五十岁左右的生活中发生的一次巨大的崩溃危 机，他说他说他实际上过着相当的生活，
he was very famous.
他非常有名。
he was very influential.
他非常有影响力。
he was really quite well-off and he'd been caught up in celebrity,
他真的很富裕，他被名人所吸引，
well,
好，
collectivities and so on,
集体等等，
and suddenly he crashed just crashed.
突然他坠毁了，只是坠毁了。
wasn't a midlife crisis.
不是中年危机。
you might have said it was depression,
你可能说它是抑郁症，
but it wasn't because of the particular circumstances of his life.
但这不是因为他生命中的特殊情况。
he crashed and got depressed because he had time to stand back and look at the general circumstances of human life,
他因为有时间退后一步看看人类生活的一般情况而崩溃并 感到沮丧，
and he writes this.
他写这个。
he says the question brought me to the edge of the abyss when I was 50 years old and the question is this what will come of what I do today and tomorrow,
他说，当我50岁的时候，这个问题把我带到了深渊的边 缘，问题是我今天和明天会做些什么，
what will come of my entire life or express differently?
我一生中会发生什么或表达不同？
why should I live?
我为什么要住？
why should I wish for anything or do anything or to put it another way?
我为什么要做任何事情或做任何事情或者换一种说法呢？
is there any meaning in my life that will not be destroyed by an my inevitably approaching death,
在我的生命中有什么意义不会被我不可避免的接近死亡所 摧毁，
then he goes on my deeds.
然后他继续我的行为。
whatever they may be,
无论他们是什么，
will be forgotten sooner or later,
迟早会忘记，
and I myself will be no more.
而我自己将不复存在。
why then do anything?
为什么然后做什么？
I therefore could not attach a rational meaning to a single act of my entire life.
因此，我无法在我一生的单一行为中附加理性的意义。
the only thing that amazed me was how I had failed to realize this from the very beginning.
唯一令我惊讶的是我从一开始就没有意识到这一点。
how can anyone fail to see this?
怎么会有人看不到这个？
that's what is amazing,
这太棒了，
I'm still quoting Tolstoy down.
我还在引用托尔斯泰的话。
okay,
好的，
not me,
不是我，
I'm not trying here,
我不是在这里试试，
okay,
好的，
how could anybody fail to see this?
怎么会有人看不到这个？
he says I was fifty years old before I sat down and said I can't attach any meaning to what I'm doing.
他说，在我坐下来之前我已经五十岁了，并说我不能对我 正在做的事情有任何意义。
I've never sat back and thought.
我从来没有坐过去思考过。
what good is it going to do?
它有什么用呢？
okay,
好的，
let me keep going that's what is amazing,
让我继续这就是令人惊奇的，
it's possible to live as long as life,
只要生命就可以活下去，
intoxicated us,
陶醉我们，
but once we're sober,
但是一旦我们清醒过来，
we cannot help seeing it's all a delusion,
我们不禁看到这一切都是妄想，
there's nothing funny or witty about it at all.
根本没什么好笑或诙谐的。
it's only cruel and stupid,
它只是残忍和愚蠢，
and now somebody says ah Tolstoy an artist.
现在有人说啊托尔斯泰是一位艺术家。
you know gloomy glad.
你知道阴郁高兴。
you can call them names if you want,
如果你愿意，可以叫他们的名字，
but you're not refuting is logic.
但你不反驳是逻辑。
I see he says if I'm going to die and if this life is all there is life means nothing because,
我看到他说如果我要死了，如果生命就是这样，生命就没 有任何意义，因为，
no matter what I do will make any difference I'll be forgotten.
无论我做什么都会有所作为，我会被遗忘。
how you say Tolstoy.
你怎么说托尔斯泰。
what do you mean he'll be forgotten?
你是什​​么意思他会被遗忘？
he will be forgotten.
他会被遗忘的。
I won't be forgotten as fast as you and me,
我不会像你我一样被遗忘，
but he will be and he realized,
但他会，他意识到，
and he says it's not funny.
他说这不好笑。
you know at the end of Cheers the last episode of Cheers.
你知道干杯结束时干杯的最后一集。
last ten minutes is a place.
最后十分钟是一个地方。
we're all sitting around the bar and Fraser says he says some people think that all life and exists is an accident and therefore all existence and everything that we do is meaningless,
我们都坐在酒吧里面，弗雷泽说他说有些人认为所有生命 和存在都是偶然的，因此我们所做的一切都是无意义的，
and I think it's somebody says there's a cheerful thought.
而且我认为有人说这是一个愉快的想法。
uh-huh everybody lasts,
嗯，每个人都持续，
you know,
你懂，
Tolstoy says it's not funny.
托尔斯泰说这不好笑。
he says you're still,
他说你还在，
intoxicated you're still so busy.
陶醉你仍然很忙。
you don't want to ask the question.
你不想问这个问题。
what is the reason for my life?
我生命的原因是什么？
what is my life about?
我的生活是什么？
because he says the question will bring you to the abyss.
因为他说这个问题会把你带到深渊。
that's Tolstoy,
那是托尔斯泰
but frankly I could go on with a lot of other quotes and I oan to show you that that's really the mark of the great thinkers they say,
但是坦率地说，我可以继续提供很多其他的报价，而且我 可以告诉你，这确实是他们所说的伟大思想家的标志，
stop ratcheting around,
停止棘手，
stop being so busy and stand back and say what am I really living for now,
不要那么忙，退后一步说出我现在的生活，
there's a lot of answers to that possible question.
这个可能的问题有很多答案。
I would like to give you the main one that modern people,
我想给你一个现代人的主要人物，
especially modern people in New York,
尤其是纽约的现代人
have given to that question.
已经提出了这个问题。
what are you living for now?
你现在住的是什么？
the main answer that modern people in a place like New York give is I'm living to be free,
像纽约这样的地方的现代人给出的主要答案是我活着是自 由的，
I'm living to follow my heart,
我活着跟着我的心，
I'm living to find what I want to do and do it with all my might now.
我活着找到我想做的事，现在就尽力而为。
that's that's there's not that's.
那就是那不是那个。
not the only answer,
不是唯一的答案，
there's plenty of other ways to answer,
还有很多其他方法可以回答，
but what I'm going to do is I'm going to just take that to the next few moments and try to show you that that is an untenable position and I'd like to reason with you.
但是我要做的是，我将在接下来的几个时刻把它拿去，并 试图向你展示这是一个站不住脚的立场，我想跟你说理。
this way.
这条路。
now you know,
现在你知道了，
I mean this is a little complicated.
我的意思是这有点复杂。
I found that New Yorkers would rather get lost in an are in a discussion than have their intelligence insulted.
我发现纽约人宁愿迷失在讨论中而不是被他们的情报侮辱 。
I found people out and the rest of the world are kind of the other way around they'd rather follow you New Yorkers.
我发现人们出去了，而世界其他地方则相反，他们宁愿跟 着纽约人。
would rather you you know,
我宁愿你知道，
say guy push me,
说伙计推我，
okay.
好的。
the argument goes this way.
这种说法是这样的。
you want freedom,
你想要自由，
the great thinkers can move sarch or other people like now,
伟大的思想家可以像现在一样移动sarch或其他人，
I'm going to give you a little list here.
我打算在这里给你一个小清单。
all people say all the great thinkers will say if you won absolute freedom to live your life.
所有人都说，所有伟大的思想家都会说，如果你获得绝对 的自由，过上自己的生活。
the way you want you have got to admit the utter meaninglessness of life.
你想要的方式必须承认生活的完全无意义。
if you want complete freedom,
如果你想要完全的自由，
you must face utter meaninglessness.
你必须面对彻底的无意义。
that's the first point,
这是第一点，
then my second point is going to be.
那么我的第二点就是。
nobody can live that way.
没有人能够这样生活。
nobody can live that way to really believe that the meat that life is meaningless gets you into convolutions that are emotional convolutions,
没有人能够以这种方式真正相信生命毫无意义的肉会让你 陷入情感卷入的卷积中，
that are psychological,
这是心理上的，
convolutions there's that are logical,
卷积那是合乎逻辑的，
convolutions,
卷积，
that are philosophical,
这是哲学的，
and you can't even live that way,
而你甚至不能这样生活，
because life does have meaning and both freedom and meaning are found in Jesus Christ.
因为生命确实有意义，耶稣基督也能找到自由和意义。
that's the argument.
这就是争论。
let me just let me push it first.
让我先让我先推。
the average person says is that that's what I'm living for I'm living to be free,
一般人说，这就是我为生活而生活的自由，
I'm living to be free.
我活着是自由的。
I I I can believe in god.
我能相信上帝。
I can't believe in God I don't know what I believe in God about God,
我无法相信上帝我不知道我相信上帝对上帝的看法，
but the one thing I believe in is that I have got to be free.
但我相信的一件事是我必须自由。
I've got to be free to do what my heart calls me to do.
我必须自由地做我心里所要做的事。
nobody can do that.
没人能做到这一点。
for me,
为了我，
nobody can tell me how to live now.
没有人能告诉我现在的生活方式。
you know the person who the thinker,
你知道思想家，
I think who is the most brilliant at analyzing the ramifications of this whole position.
我认为谁在分析这一整体立场的影响方面最为出色。
this whole idea is Albert Camus,
这整个想法是阿尔伯特加缪，
and I book I had to read when I was a freshman in high since was the myth of sisyphus.
因为是西西弗斯的神话，所以当我还是高中新生时，我必 须阅读。
you know recently we've had a spy scandal,
你知道我们最近有间谍丑闻，
the upper reaches of the CIA.
中央情报局的上游。
well,
好，
you know in Greek mythology there was a very,
你知道在希腊神话中有一个非常的，
very ancient spy scandal.
非常古老的间谍丑闻。
this has been a problem.
这是一个问题。
that's going on for a long time.
这种情况持续了很长时间。
Sisyphus was found,
西西弗斯被发现了，
was caught,
被抓了，
giving secrets celestial secrets to mortals,
向凡人泄露天体的秘密，
and so they caught him the gods caught him.
所以他们抓住了他，众神抓住了他。
you see.
你看。
so this is a problem.
所以这是一个问题。
that's been going on for a long time and what they did to Sisyphus is something that I think the Justice Department should take notes on what they did desist.
这已经持续了很长时间，他们对西西弗斯的所作所为，我 认为司法部应该记下他们所做的事情。
this was incredible.
这太不可思议了。
they put him in a position where,
他们把他放在一个位置，
all day long he had to roll a rock up a huge hill all day long,
他整天都不得不整天在一座巨大的山坡上翻滚一块石头，
he roll it and roll it and roll,
他滚动它并滚动并滚动，
and just before he got to the top ten feet from the top,
就在他从顶部到达前十英尺之前，
always always always every day.
永远都是每一天。
at the end of every day,
在每一天结束时，
the rock would pull back no matter what he did,
不管他做了什么，岩石都会退回去
roll back to the to the base of the hill and the next day he had to turn around and start rolling it back up again and go on endlessly and endlessly honestly forever now I think the Justice Department's going to do that they need to update a little bit.
回到山脚下，第二天他不得不转身再次开始回头再继续无 休止地永远地继续现在我认为司法部要做到这一点他们需 要更新一点位。
my suggestion is that you chain a person to a personal computer that you make that make this spy in this case,
我的建议是，你将一个人链接到你制作的个人电脑，在这 种情况下做这个间谍，
make the man I guess it's.
让那个男人我想是的。
I guess it's only the man right,
我猜这只是男人的权利，
not the man,
不是男人，
the woman anyway,
无论如何，女人，
you make the man do data entry data input all day and at ten minutes before quitting time every day,
你让男人每天在每天退出时间前十分钟输入数据输入数据 ，
the computer crashes and next day you have to do it again,
电脑崩溃，第二天你必须再做一次，
start with page one,
从第一页开始，
but the point of the myth and the joke hell is having to execute a pointless act from which nothing ever comes.
但神话和笑话的地狱点必须执行一个毫无意义的行为。
hell is having to execute a pointless act from which nothing ever comes,
地狱必须执行一个毫无意义的行为，
except the need to do it again.
除了需要再做一次。
that's ho and in the myth of Sisyphus,
这是和西西弗斯的神话，
Albert Camus is honest enough to say this.
艾伯特加缪诚实地说这个。
he says we modern people believe in absolute freedom.
他说我们现代人相信绝对的自由。
many of us don't believe in God at all.
我们中的许多人根本不相信上帝。
many of us don't believe in a God that you can know.
我们许多人不相信你能认识的上帝。
in other words,
换一种说法，
modern people generally either believe in no God or they believe,
现代人通常要么不相信上帝，要么相信，
there's no God.
没有上帝。
you can really know and therefore we believe in no God or no God.
你真的可以知道，因此我们相信没有上帝或没有上帝。
you can really know because we believe in freedom.
你真的知道，因为我们相信自由。
if there was a God and if there was a God that we could know who told us how we had to live and who gave us the rules and the regulations?
如果有一个上帝，如果有一个上帝，我们可以知道谁告诉 我们我们如何生活，谁给了我们规则和规定？
well then,
好吧，
we wouldn't be free,
我们不会自由，
but because we believe in freedom and because we don't believe in the traditional views of God and so on,
但是因为我们相信自由，因为我们不相信上帝的传统观点 等等，
because we don't believe in God we're free.
因为我们不相信上帝，所以我们是自由的。
but if we're free,
但如果我们有空
we're all like Sisyphus and I remember very very clearly the basic argument of the book I remember I had to read it and we had to discuss it in freshman class and it was really quite stunning.
我们都像西西弗斯一样，我非常清楚地记得这本书的基本 论点，我记得我必须阅读它，我们不得不在新生班上讨论 它，这真的非常令人惊叹。
but basically it went like this.
但基本上就是这样。
Camus was saying all right.
加缪说得好。
think of it this way,
想到这样，
once you realize that you're free,
一旦你意识到你有空，
because this life is all there is there's no heaven,
因为这就是生命中没有天堂，
there is no hell,
没有地狱，
there's no eternal,
没有永恒，
there's,
有，
no eternal being and so on.
没有永恒的存在等等。
you have to realize,
你必须意识到，
then that nothing you do makes any difference.
然后，你所做的一切都没有任何区别。
let's just say you decide you're going to live a very compassionate life,
让我们说你决定过一个非常富有同情心的生活，
let's just say you're going to just this person over here it decides you're going to they're going to live lives of violence and oppression.
让我们只说你在这里只是这个人，它决定你要去生活中暴 力和压迫。
don't you realize in the end,
你最后没有意识到，
when you die your rock?
当你死在岩石上？
oh yes,
哦，是的，
well,
好，
but your deeds live on yeah for a little while,
但你的行为生活在耶和华的一段时间，
but don't you realize the three or four billion years in which organic life is going to live on?
但是你不意识到有机生命将会存在三四十亿年吗？
this planet is just an eye.
这个星球只是一个眼睛。
blink justice just a you,
眨眼就是你，
know,
知道，
infinitesimal moment in relationship to the oceans of dead time that proceed and that come after.
与死亡时间的海洋相关的无限小的时刻。
in the end,
到底，
the universe is going to burn up in the end,
宇宙到底会燃烧起来，
nothing is going to make any difference is what Tolstoy realized in the end,
托尔斯泰到底意识到什么都没有任何区别，
what you do and how you live,
你做了什么，你如何生活，
makes not one whit of difference to live a good life to live a bad life,
为了过上糟糕的生活，过上美好的生活并不是一件好事，
it doesn't matter if the Titanic's going down and everybody aboard is about to die.
如果泰坦尼克号下降并且船上的每个人即将死亡都没关系 。
does it really matter whether you go down hugging or mugging?
你是否喜欢拥抱或抢劫真的很重要吗？
what difference does it make?
它有什么不同？
what difference does make to you or the person you're mugging?
对你或你抢劫的人有什么不同？
who cares we're about to die in five minutes?
谁在乎我们将在五分钟内死去？
give me your wallet,
把你的钱包给我
what's the guy going to say he says what a tragedy this is.
什么人会说他说这是多么悲剧。
this is my entire life savings?
这是我一生的积蓄？
no,
没有，
what's he going to say here?
他会在这说什么？
have the wallet stab me while you're at and Camus says,
当你在和Camus说，钱包刺伤了我，
don't you know what that is?
难道你不知道那是什么？
don't you realize,
你没意识到，
okay,
好的，
if it's true that,
如果这是真的，
whether you're hugging or mugging,
无论你是拥抱还是抢劫，
five minutes before you die,
你死前五分钟
you see if you're about to die in five minutes,
你看看你是否准备在五分钟内死去，
hugging your mug.
拥抱你的杯子。
it makes no difference in other words,
换句话说没有区别，
your life becomes meaningless,
你的生活变得毫无意义
but don't you realize you're going to you're going to die in five minutes so to speak anyway,
但是你不知道你会在五分钟内死去，无论如何都可以说，
and so will the whole world and some of the whole universes of a whole civilization we're all Sisyphus.
整个世界和整个文明的整个宇宙都是如此，我们都是西西 弗斯。
this can move if you want freedom,
如果你想要自由，这可以移动，
total freedom,
完全自由
you have a meaningless life simple,
你有一个毫无意义的生活简单，
as that Bertrand Russell put it this way with the product of causes that had no provision of the end they were achieving.
正如伯特兰·罗素（Bertrand Russell ）用这种原因产生的那样，他们没有提供他们正在实现的 目标。
that is our origin,
这是我们的起源，
our growth,
我们的成长，
our hopes and fears.
我们的希望和恐惧。
our loves our beliefs,
我们爱我们的信仰，
our all,
我们所有的，
but the outcome of the accidental collocation of atoms.
但原子偶然搭配的结果。
all of our Labour's all of our devotion,
我们所有工党的全部奉献，
all the genius are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system.
所有的天才注定要在太阳系的巨大死亡中灭绝。
only within the scaffolding of these truths.
只在这些真理的​​脚手架内。
only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair can the soul's habitation be safely built at what what Sisyphus is saying?
只有在不屈不挠的绝望的坚实基础上，灵魂的居所才能安 全地建立在西西弗斯所说的东西上？
what Camus is saying what Bertrand Russell is saying?
加缪正在说Bertrand Russell在说什么 ？
if you have absolute freedom,
如果你有绝对的自由，
you must realize that everything you do is pointless.
你必须意识到你所做的一切都是毫无意义的。
if you want absolute freedom,
如果你想要绝对的自由，
you have to understand that everything you do is utterly meaningless.
你必须明白，你所做的一切都是毫无意义的。
oh,
哦，
yes,
是，
Camus,
加缪，
Tolstoy,
托尔斯泰，
huh,
呵呵，
gloomy artists refute their logic.
阴沉的艺术家反驳他们的逻辑。
try it put it.
试试看吧。
let me just give you a more up-to-date person,
让我给你一个更新的人，
Stephen Jay Gould,
斯蒂芬杰伊古尔德，
who teaches at Harvard,
谁在哈佛大学任教，
and he wrote an article just a couple years ago in Life magazine on the meaning of life.
几年前他在“生活”杂志上写了一篇关于生命意义的文章 。
he puts it this way now.
他现在这样说。
well I'll,
好吧，我会的，
make a comment in a minute.
在一分钟内发表评论。
he says we are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar Anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures and we're here,
他说我们在这里是因为一群奇怪的鱼有一种奇特的解剖学 ，可以变成陆地生物的腿，我们在这里，
because comets struck the earth and wiped out dinosaur is giving mammals a chance.
因为彗星撞击地球并消灭恐龙给哺乳动物一个机会。
they would not otherwise have had available and therefore thank your lucky stars in a literal sense,
他们不会有其他可用的，因此感谢你的幸运星在字面意义 上，
because the earth never frozen tirely.
因为地球永远不会冷冻。
we are here because the earth never frozen tirely during an ice age.
我们在这里是因为在冰河时代，地球从未冷冻过。
we are here because of small in tenuous species arising in Africa.
我们在这里是因为非洲出现了一些脆弱的物种。
a quarter of a million years ago has managed to survive by hook,
25万年前已经设法通过钩子生存，
hands,
手，
especially by crook we may year and for hire.
特别是骗子，我们可能一年又一年。
answer good writing,
回答好写作，
isn't it,
不是吗
but none exists.
但都不存在。
we may yearn for a higher answer,
我们可能渴望得到更高的答案，
but none exists.
但都不存在。
this explanation,
这个解释，
though,
虽然，
superficially troubling superficially.
表面上令人不快的表面上令人不安。
this explanation,
这个解释，
though,
虽然，
superficially troubling,
表面上令人不安的
if not terrifying,
如果不是可怕的话
is ultimately liberating and exhilarating.
最终是解放和令人振奋的。
we cannot read the meaning of life passively as the facts of in the facts of nature.
我们不能被动地将生命的意义理解为自然事实中的事实。
we must construct the meaning of life ourselves from our own wisdom and ethical sense.
我们必须从自己的智慧和道德意识中建构自己的生命意义 。
there is no other way see just like kamut,
没有其他方式可以像kamut一样看到，
it's liberating the only way to be free.
它解放了自由的唯一途径。
the only way to say I can do whatever I want,
说我能做任何我想做的事情的唯一方法，
I am my own master is to admit everything is meaningless.
我是我自己的主人，承认一切都毫无意义。
the trouble is,
麻烦的是，
and let me read one more before I move the second point.
在我提出第二点之前，让我再读一遍。
the first point is you want freedom,
第一点是你要自由，
you want to say.
你想说。
well,
好，
I don't know if there's a god or I don't know that,
我不知道有没有上帝，或者我不知道，
there's a god I can know.
有一个我能知道的神。
I certainly there's.
我当然有。
no God that I have to submit myself to and obey the argument.
没有上帝，我必须服从并遵守这个论点。
is you have to admit that everything you do every statement you make?
你必须承认你做的每一句话都做了吗？
every action you take.
你采取的每一个行动。
every choice is meaningless and insignificant.
每一个选择都是毫无意义和微不足道的。
Stephen Jay Gould says this is superficially troubling but liberating,
斯蒂芬杰伊古尔德说，这是表面上令人不安但解放，
which means I can do whatever the heck I want,
这意味着我可以做任何我想要的事，
but that's dishonest,
但这是不诚实的，
just as I make transition to the to the next point.
就像我转换到下一点一样。
let me read you a much more honest statement.
让我告诉你一个更诚实的声明。
look dealing with the same data by the famous author,
看看着名作者处理相同的数据，
Aldous Huxley,
奥尔德斯赫胥黎
see Stephen Jay Gould says it sounds terrific Lee Noble but now listen,
看斯蒂芬杰伊古尔德说这听起来很棒的李诺布尔现在听，
Huxley says in his book ends and means he said I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning.
赫胥黎在他的书中说，结束并意味着他说我有动机不想要 世界有意义。
consequently,
所以，
I assumed that it had none and was able without much difficulty,
我以为它没有，并且没有太大的困难，
to find satisfying reasons for this assumption.
为这个假设找到令人满意的理由。
the philosopher,
哲学家，
who finds no meaning in this world,
谁在这个世界上找不到任何意义，
is not concerned exclusively with a problem of academics.
并不仅仅关注学术问题。
the philosopher,
哲学家，
who finds no meaning in this world is also concerned to prove that there's no valid reason why he should not personally do as he wants to do,
在这个世界上没有任何意义的人也担心证明他不应该按照 自己的意愿亲自去做，这是没有正当理由的，
or why his friends should not seize political power and govern in the way that they find most advantageous to themselves for myself,
或者为什么他的朋友不应该以他们认为对自己最有利的方 式掌握政治权力和治理，
the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation,
无意义的哲学本质上是一种解放的工具，
sexual and political.
性和政治。
don't you see what he's saying at least he's being honest?
难道你不明白他说的话至少他是诚实的吗？
we know we're talking about here.
我们知道我们在这里谈论。
he says,
他说，
look it you come to urban America.
看你来到美国城市。
you come to college here,
你来这里上大学，
you come to you come to work here and you say finally,
你来到这里工作，你最后说，
finally,
最后，
I can really swing I'm away from Middle America.
我真的可以摆脱中美洲。
I could do what I want.
我能做我想做的事。
you see you want to be included.
你看到你想要被包括在内。
this is not a matter of just academics like he says he says you look at the big issues.
这不仅仅是学术界的问题，就像他说他说你看看大问题。
is there a God?
有上帝吗？
is there meaning that is the Bible?
有没有意思是圣经？
true?
真正？
is there a revealed way in which I should should live?
有没有一种我应该生活的透露方式？
should I be submitting and you know you go to religion 101,
我应该提交，你知道你去宗教101，
you go to philosophy,
你去哲学，
classes,
类，
you read books and,
你看书了，
you think is Huxley,
你认为是赫胥黎，
says you're being objective you're,
说你是客观的，
not no.
不，不。
he says I wanted to be liberated.
他说我想解放。
therefore,
因此，
I had to adopt the philosophy of meaninglessness,
我不得不采用无意义的哲学，
and even Camus admits that he says,
甚至加缪都承认他说，
if I'm,
如果我是，
I can't believe in a God,
我无法相信上帝，
we have to believe in meaninglessness.
我们必须相信无意义。
otherwise I wouldn't be free.
否则我就不会自由。
let me tell you something else that happens.
让我告诉你其他事情发生了。
you know really.
你真的知道吗
what Huxley saying is,
赫胥黎说的是，
I would rather choose hopelessness because I would rather rule in Hell than serve in heaven.
我宁愿选择绝望，因为我宁愿在地狱中统治而不是在天堂 服役。
I'd rather be Sisyphus than Moses.
我宁愿做西西弗斯而不是摩西。
now,
现在，
the first point you see it,
你看到它的第一点，
somebody says you haven't proved a thing.
有人说你没有证明一件事。
you haven't printed thing.
你还没有打印东西。
I can tell you're up there trying to make this Christian.
我可以告诉你在那里试图成为这个基督徒。
you know religion,
你知道宗教，
palatable and all you've done is made me feel worse about my position.
可口的，你所做的一切让我对自己的立场感到更糟。
okay,
好的，
I feel worse.
我感觉更糟
you know you get down a little bit of a number on me.
你知道你在我身上得到了一点点数字。
I see that now everything is minute all right,
我看到现在一切都很好，
but so it is so what how do you know that?
但是你怎么知道的呢？
that's just not the case,
事实并非如此，
and I guess the answer would be this.
我想答案就是这个。
there is no way that you can live on the basis of your worldview.
没有办法让你可以依靠你的世界观生活。
listen how our scientific theory is justified.
听听我们的科学理论是如何合理的。
how are they proven it used to be in days of past?
它们如何证明它曾经过去几天？
they used to say?
他们曾经说过吗？
well,
好，
you prove scientific theory through investigation and observe ation observable phenomenon.
通过调查证明科学理论并观察观察现象。
that's the way well,
这很好，
that's not true.
这不是真的。
nobody's ever observed an atom nobody's ever observed an electron,
没有人观察到原子没有人观察过电子，
a quark.
一个夸克。
they haven't observed plenty of things that that scientific,
他们没有观察到那些科学的东西
you know,
你懂，
sciences has essentially demonstrated things to be the case theories that have been proven justified.
科学已经基本证明了事实是被证明是合理的案例理论。
the way you justified a scientific theory is,
你证明科学理论合理的方式是，
you say does it account for the way things are and without it are we do we find that there's no way to account for the way things are,
你说它是否解释了事物的方式，如果没有它，我们就会发 现没有办法解释事物的方式，
can move sartre?
可以移动萨特吗？
you know the people I was just reading,
你知道我刚读的人，
they say yes,
他们说是，
well,
好，
life is meaningless.
生活毫无意义。
I'm free life is meaningless.
我的自由生活毫无意义。
that's just the way it is.
就是那样子。
there is no way that you can believe what you believe without getting into a collision course with your own self,
没有办法让你相信自己的信仰，而不会与自己发生冲突，
philosophically psychologically.
哲学上的心理学。
emotionally,
在感情上，
let me just show you what I mean.
让我告诉你我的意思。
first of all,
首先，
one of the problems that comes up immediately.
立即出现的问题之一。
Voltaire has an interesting statement about this.
伏尔泰对此有一个有趣的说法。
Voltaire says you know he says,
伏尔泰说你知道他说，
meaning that the doctrine of meaninglessness doesn't quite work.
意思是无意义的教义不起作用。
he says I'm a puny part of a great whole.
他说我是一个伟大整体的微不足道的一部分。
yes,
是，
but all sentient beings suffer like me and yet like me,
但是所有众生都像我一样受苦，但又喜欢我，
they also die.
他们也死了。
however,
然而，
what is the verdict?
判决是什么？
and he says what is the verdict of the vastest mind,
他说最快思想的判决是什么，
he's talking about the universe?
他在谈论宇宙？
silence the book of faces fate is close to us.
沉默的面孔命运与我们息息相关。
man is a stranger to his own research.
男人对自己的研究很陌生。
he knows not whence he comes nor whither.
他不知道他是从哪来来的。
he goes tormented atoms in a bed of mud boy.
他在一个泥泞的男孩床上折磨原子。
that's a great line that's what you are tormented atoms in a bed of mud,
这是一条伟大的路线，就是你在泥床上折磨原子的东西，
devoured by death,
被死亡吞噬，
a mockery of fate,
命运的嘲弄，
but then he says,
但他说，
but you know all small things all living things suffer like me and also die,
但是你知道所有小东西都像我一样受苦，也死了
but I'm the only one that's bothered by it it.
但我是唯一一个被它困扰的人。
he says we're such a puny part of the universe and I'm the only one.
他说我们是宇宙中的一个微不足道的部分，我是唯一的一 个。
why do human beings get so bothered by the idea of meaninglessness?
为什么人类会被无意义的想法所困扰？
why do we get so upset about it?
为什么我们对此感到沮丧？
you know I look at my cat,
你知道我看着我的猫
she's,
她，
a sentient being she's,
一个有感觉的是她，
a very puny part of the whole doesn't seem to bother her like it bothers me,
一个非常微不足道的部分似乎并没有打扰她，就像它困扰 我，
we're supposed to be the most informed of the species it bothers us why?
我们应该是最困难的物种，它困扰我们为什么？
why is it that when I say life is meaningless,
为什么当我说生活毫无意义时，
there's a part of you,
有你的一部分，
the emotional part that says no,
说不的情绪部分，
but if you want to be absolutely free,
但如果你想完全免费，
the intellectual part of you has to say.
你的知识分子必须说。
yes,
是，
I guess that's true.
我猜这是真的。
don't you see already intellectually you're on a collision course with what you know.
难道你没有在智力上看到你与你所知道的相遇。
life can't be meaningless.
生活不可能毫无意义。
there is purpose,
有目的，
while you say you haven't proven.
而你说你还没有证明。
I may go a little further one of the problems.
我可能会进一步解决其中一个问题。
one of the problem,
其中一个问题，
one of the big problems of this whole thing is on the basis of the view.
整个事情的一大问题是在观点的基础上。
you've got you want to be free,
你想要自由，
you've got to believe everything is meaningless,
你必须相信一切都没有意义，
and yet you can't live that way.
然而你却不能这样生活。
do you realize,
你有没有意识到，
for example,
例如，
this means that nothing is absolutely wrong.
这意味着没有什么是绝对错误的。
please visit.
请拜访。
if I say you know,
如果我说你知道，
I say,
我说，
is rape always wrong?
强奸总是错的吗？
well,
好，
yes,
是，
you say it's always wrong.
你说这总是错的。
what do you mean?
你什么意思？
it's always wrong?
这总是错的？
where'd you get this idea of being wrong where you get the whole idea of right and wrong,
你在哪里得到这个错误的想法，你会得到完整的是非观念 ，
it's totally subjective,
这完全是主观的，
maybe you can say it hurts.
也许你可以说它很疼。
but how can you say it's wrong?
但你怎么能说这是错的？
is violence always wrong?
暴力总是错的吗？
well,
好，
I don't know,
我不知道，
is oppression always wrong?
压迫总是错的吗？
I don't know your guess.
我不知道你的猜测。
you do,
你做，
but you see you don't have a basis for saying so.
但是你看到你没有这样说的基础。
Sartre had one little maxim.
萨特有一个小格言。
it is forbidden to forbid it's a great Maxim.
禁止它禁止它是伟大的马克西姆。
I mean at least you know when you're new in college,
我的意思是，至少你知道你什么时候上大学，
you get a hold of that one and you say,
你抓住那个，你说，
look at that life is meaningless.
看看生活毫无意义。
we're free,
是免费的，
authentic freedom.
真正的自由。
you see existentialism right existence precedes essence.
你看到存在主义的正确存在先于本质。
I can construct who I want to be.
我可以构建我想成为的人。
I live in absolute clinic freedom.
我生活在绝对的临床自由中。
the only thing is forbidden is to forbid wait a minute.
唯一被禁止的是禁止等一下。
you said you can't forbid anything.
你说你不能禁止任何事情。
how can you forbid me to forbid on what basis do you say that I should be forbidding?
你怎么能禁止我禁止你说我应该禁止的基础？
I shouldn't forbid you.
我不应该禁止你。
when somebody comes up to and says you know all religions are relative,
当有人出现并说你知道所有宗教都是相对的，
you know all truth is relative.
你知道所有真相都是相对的。
you can't say that your religion is right,
你不能说你的宗教是对的，
so you must stop trying to convert people,
所以你必须停止尝试转换人，
and you know,
而且你知道，
what's the answer to that so you're trying to convert me.
什么是答案，所以你试图转变我。
what do you mean you're?
你是什​​么意思？
insisting that your view of truth,
坚持你对真相的看法，
that all truth is relative is right,
一切真相都是对的，
and you don't want me to try to convert people.
你不希望我试图皈依人。
you think that's a very bad thing where do you get the hiding of bad?
你认为这是一个非常糟糕的事情你在哪里隐藏坏事？
you say you shouldn't forbid anything except it forbid,
你说你不应该禁止任何事情，除非它禁止，
but you can't forbid me to forbid you've got no basis on which to go you're on a collision course with yourself.
但是你不能禁止我禁止你没有根据你自己的碰撞过程。
there's a guy named G K Chesterton,
有一个名叫G K Chesterton的人，
who years ago,
谁多年前，
wrote about the real problem of the the philosophy that you know everything is relative and all life is meaningless.
写下了关于哲学的真正问题，你知道一切都是相对的，所 有生命都是毫无意义的。
he put it this way.
他这么说。
he says the new rebel in our time is a skeptic and will not entirely trust anything and therefore he has no loyalty and he can't even be a revolutionary now.
他说，在我们这个时代，新的反叛者是一个怀疑论者，不 会完全信任任何东西，因此他没有忠诚，他现在甚至不能 成为革命者。
listen the fact that he doubts everything and he must not everything bars his way when he wants to denounce anything for all denunciation implies a moral doctrine and you can't believe in a moral doctrine if all things are meaningless.
聆听这样一个事实，即他怀疑一切，当他想要谴责所有谴 责任何东西时，他一定不能阻止他的方式，这意味着道德 学说，如果一切都没有意义，你就不能相信道德学说。
the modern revolutionary doubts not only the institution he denounces,
现代革命者不仅怀疑他所谴责的机构，
but the doctrine of our church truth by which he denounces it.
但是他谴责它的教会真理的教义。
as a politician,
作为政治家，
he will cry out that war is a waste of life.
他会大声说战争是浪费生命。
yet,
然而，
as a philosopher,
作为哲学家，
he has to admit that all life is a waste of time.
他必须承认所有生命都是浪费时间。
a russian philosopher denounces a policeman for killing a peasant and then in his other writings,
一位俄罗斯哲学家谴责一名警察杀害一名农民，然后在其 他着作中，
proves that by the highest philosophical theory that the peasant should have killed himself.
通过最高的哲学理论证明农民应该杀死自己。
a scientist goes to a political meeting where he complains that we are treating native peoples as beasts,
一位科学家参加政治会议，抱怨我们将土着民族视为野兽 ，
and then he goes to a scientific meeting reproves that we are beasts.
然后他去参加科学会议，责备我们是野兽。
in short,
简而言之，
the modern revolutionary being an infinite skeptic,
现代革命者是一个无限的怀疑论者，
which he must be,
他必须是，
is always engaged in undermining his own minds in his book on politics.
在他的政治书中总是在破坏自己的思想。
he attacks persons for trampling on morality,
他为了践踏道德而攻击人，
but in his book on ethics attacks morality for trampling on persons.
但在他的关于伦理道德的书中，为了践踏人而攻击道德。
therefore,
因此，
the modern rebel has become practically useless for all purposes of revolt by rebelling against everything he has lost his right to rebel against anything.
现代反叛者通过反抗一切他已经失去反抗任何东西的权利 ，已经变得几乎无用于反抗的所有目的。
you know.
你懂。
in the same chapter,
在同一章节中，
Chesterton says there is a kind of thought that stops thought,
切斯特顿说，有一种想法停止思考，
and that is the only kind of thought that ought to be stopped and the thought that we are absolutely free that there is,
这是应该停止的唯一一种思想，以及我们完全自由的想法 ，
no God that everything is meaningless.
没有上帝，一切都毫无意义。
is the only thought that stops thought you can't even begin to talk as soon as you say,
是唯一一个停止以为你甚至不能一说话就开始说话的想法 ，
everything is meaningless.
一切都毫无意义。
I have to ask you the question is that a meaningful statement do you expect me to understand it?
我不得不问你一个问题是，你期望我理解它是一个有意义 的陈述吗？
are you trying to convince me of something?
你想让我相信什么吗？
are you trying to show me that it's true CS Louis puts it this way?
你想告诉我CS路易斯是这样的吗？
if there's no answer so there's no creator.
如果没有答案那么就没有创作者。
if there's nothing,
如果什么都没有，
that's really true when you're in love,
当你恋爱时，这才是真的，
you must remember that only a psychopharmacological reaction in your brain is happening.
你必须记住，只有你脑中的精神药理反应正在发生。
there's no such thing as love you may enjoy music,
没有爱，你可以享受音乐，
but you have to realize it's only a biological reaction,
但你必须意识到这只是一种生物反应，
beauty and ugliness cruelty and compassion totally subjective,
美丽和丑陋残忍和同情完全主观，
not real,
不是真的，
all in my brain synapses,
在我的大脑突触中，
and then he says you may still believing this in the lowest sense.
然后他说你可能仍然认为这是最低限度的。
have a good time,
玩的很开心，
but just insofar as it becomes a very good time just insofar as it ever threatens to push you out from cold and pure sensuality into real warmth and enthusiasm and joy.
但只要它成为一个非常好的时间，只要它有可能将你从冷 酷纯洁的性感推向真正的温暖，热情和快乐。
to that extent,
到那个程度，
you will be forced to feel the hopeless disharmony between your own emotions and the universe in which you really live.
你将被迫感受到自己的情感与你真正生活的宇宙之间的绝 望不和谐。
see the only way to enjoy flowers and love is to not think you want to be free and you have got to have a worldview that cannot account for how things are.
看到享受鲜花和爱情的唯一方法就是不要以为你想要获得 自由，你必须拥有一个无法解释事物的世界观。
don't just if you start with a premise I'm free and there's really,
不要只是如果你从一个前提开始我是自由的，而且真的，
no God or no God you can know and on the basis of the premise you have to conclude,
没有上帝或没有上帝，你可以知道，并根据你必须得出的 前提，
there's no such thing as evil one.
没有邪恶的东西。
you know there is such a thing as evil.
你知道有一种邪恶的东西。
I have to conclude there's no such thing as love when you know,
我必须得出结论，当你知​​道时，没有爱这样的东西，
there's such a thing as love have to conclude that human beings are no different than rocks when you know,
有这样的事情，爱情必须得出结论，当你知​​道时，人 类与岩石没有什么不同，
there's a difference between endings.
结局之间有区别。
if you start with a premise and you come to false conclusions,
如果你从一个前提开始，你会得出错误的结论，
why the heck won't you conclude that the premise was wrong?
为什么你不能断定前提是错的？
why not think about the premise?
为什么不考虑这个前提呢？
why not go back to it that never happened to me before?
为什么不回到以前从未发生过的事情呢？
well,
好，
actually,
其实，
it's never happening before in a white church.
它永远不会发生在一个白色的教堂里。
I must admit I've been a little concerned that all I've been doing is giving you male thinker quotes here's one Dorothy Sayers said years ago in this world there is a view.
我必须承认，我一直有点担心我所做的一切都是给你男性 思想家的引用，这是多萝西塞耶斯多年前在这个世界上所 说的观点。
that's called total tolerance,
这称为总容差，
but in hell it's called despair.
但在地狱里它被称为绝望。
it's the sin that the leaves and nothing cares for nothing seeks to know.
叶子和没有什么不在意的东西试图知道这是罪。
nothing enjoys nothing finds purpose and nothing lives for nothing but remains alive.
没有什么可以找到目的，没有什么可以生活，但仍然活着 。
why?
为什么？
because there's nothing for which it could die now in the passage now no freedom,
因为现在没有自由，现在没有任何东西可以在这段经文中 消亡
no total freedom without losing all your meaning,
在不失去所有意义的情况下没有完全自由
but there's a solution.
但有一个解决方案。
the passage that was read by Bruce just before I came on says in the beginning was the word now when the gospel writer John wrote that he used,
布鲁斯在我出现之前读过的那篇文章在开头说的是现在福 音书作家约翰写道他用过的那句话，
he was writing in Greek and in the Greek he used the word that was absolutely and totally loaded.
他用希腊语和希腊语写作，他使用了绝对和完全负载的词 。
he used the word logos from which we get our word logic,
他使用了logos这个词来获取我们的逻辑词，
but that's not the right translation.
但那不是正确的翻译。
the word logos was an absolutely philosophically loaded term at the time,
徽标这个词在当时是一个绝对哲学上加载的术语，
because it should be translated.
因为它应该被翻译。
the reason for life in the big sea,
在大海生活的原因，
the Greeks,
希腊人，
argued over something.
争论某事。
the word logos meant what is the reason for something example if you see somebody trying to pop popcorn in an expresso maker,
如果你看到有人试图在expresso制造商中爆炸爆 米花，那么这个词就意味着什么是一个例子的原因，
you go to them and you say all right.
你去找他们，你说得没事。
let me explain to you why the popcorn is of such poor quality.
让我向你解释为什么爆米花的质量很差。
you don't know the purpose that tell us the logos.
你不知道告诉我们这个标志的目的。
these are all the Greek philosophical terms.
这些都是希腊哲学术语。
you don't know what the design of that thing was.
你不知道那件事的设计是什么。
it wasn't built to make popcorn,
它不是用来制作爆米花的，
it was built to make expresso and you see if you use something and you don't honor its logos,
它是为了制作expresso而制作的，你看看你是否 使用了某些东西并且你不尊重它的标志，
its reason for existence its design,
它存在设计的原因，
what the designer put into it.
设计师投入了什么。
if you don't honor it,
如果你不尊重它，
it can't reach its potential.
它无法发挥其潜力。
let me go one step further.
让我更进一步。
if you see somebody cooking weenies on a space heater in their apartment,
如果你看到有人在他们的公寓里的空间加热器上烹饪we enies，
you better say don't do that.
你最好说不要那样做。
that's not what it was built for and in this case it'll be dangerous.
这不是它的建造，在这种情况下，这将是危险的。
you could burn down the place.
你可以烧掉这个地方。
well,
好，
the Greek said you know what,
希腊人说你知道什么，
if,
如果，
when you find the reason,
当你找到原因时，
the purpose for an object,
对象的目的，
it reaches its potential and and of course,
它达到了它的潜力，当然，
we end and we reach wholeness and potentiality.
我们结束，我们达到了整体和潜力。
what?
什么？
if we found the reason for life,
如果我们找到生命的原因，
if we found out the reason why we were created,
如果我们找到了我们创建的原因，
why we were designed and we conformed that and honored that we'd be free,
为什么我们被设计并且我们遵守了这一点并且尊重我们的 自由，
we'd have we'd,
我们有，我们
have all that we'd reach all of our potential and the Greek philosophy groups went back and forth for remember of years trying to say this is the reason for life.
拥有我们所有潜力的所有东西，希腊哲学团体来回徘徊， 记得多年来试图说这就是生命的原因。
this is the reason for life.
这就是生命的原因。
by the time of the time of Jesus Christ,
到耶稣基督的时候，
the Greek philosophical schools had gone gone into utter despair.
希腊哲学学校已经彻底绝望了。
they couldn't agree,
他们不同意，
and basically people started to say there is no reason for life,
基本上人们开始说没有生命的理由，
there's no logos and,
没有徽标，
of course,
当然，
that began to sift down into the culture,
开始筛选到文化中
because you see when there's no reason for life when everything is meaningless,
因为当一切都毫无意义时，你会看到生命没有理由的时候 ，
the culture falls apart because you start to say who's to say what's right and wrong,
文化崩溃是因为你开始说谁在说什么是对错，
why make a contribution?
为什么要做出贡献？
why love my neighbor and along comes John,
为什么爱我的邻居，约翰，
and he drops this unbelievable bombshell and he says there is a logos.
他放下了这个令人难以置信的重磅炸弹，他说有一个标志 。
if there's a design,
如果有设计，
there's a designer,
有一个设计师，
we know there's a design and if there's a designer the logos has come,
我们知道有一个设计，如果有一个设计师的标志来了，
I can show you who the real what the reason for life is,
我可以告诉你真正的生命是什么，
but it's not an abstract philosophical principle.
但这不是一个抽象的哲学原理。
it's a person.
这是一个人。
the designer has punched a hole in the roof of the world and he is descended and you were built not just to honor some philosophical principle,
设计师在世界屋顶上打了一个洞，他是下降的，你的建造 不仅仅是为了尊重一些哲学原理，
but you were built to know and love this divine personage and the one you know him and when you serve it and when you love him and when you find out what he built you for and when you comply with it,
但你的建立是为了了解和爱这个神圣的人物和你认识他的 人，当你服务它时，当你爱他时，当你发现他为你建造的 东西以及当你遵守它时，
and you submit yourself to him,
你把自己交给他，
you find out who you are,
你发现自己是谁，
you know if you have a sailboat,
你知道如果你有一艘帆船，
you sail on the water and you sail into the wind at the right angle and you soar and would you ever say in the name of absolute freedom.
你在水上航行，你以正确的角度驶向风，你翱翔，你会以 绝对自由的名义说出来。
I am going to say oh my sailboat down Broadway.
我要说我的帆船在百老汇下来了。
what otherwise I'm not free.
否则我不自由。
you would never dishonor the design of your sailboat to do that,
你永远不会羞辱你的帆船的设计来做到这一点，
because by dishonouring its design,
因为它的设计羞辱
its logos,
它的标志，
you destroy it and that's what's happening to anybody who doesn't know and love the logos,
你摧毁它，这就是任何不了解和喜爱这个标志的人所发生 的事情，
Jesus Christ.
耶稣基督。
what's your alternative ship to John's claim,
什么是约翰的索赔的替代船，
the alternative is go manufacture your own logos,
另一种方法是制造自己的标识，
but what is it going to be?
但它会是什么？
what?
什么？
what is your purpose?
你的目的是什么？
what is your reason for life,
你的生活理由是什么，
your beauty,
你的美丽，
you'll wrinkle,
你会皱，
hmm competition.
嗯竞争。
somebody will come along and do a better job in the end.
有人会来，最后做得更好。
you'll end up staring into the fire,
你最终会盯着火，
because,
因为，
no matter what your chosen logos is it'll never help you answer the questions we've been talking about tonight.
无论你选择什么标志，它都永远不会帮助你回答我们今晚 所讨论的问题。
it will not help you face.
它不会帮助你面对。
death in the beginning was the reason for life,
生命的起因是生命的原因，
and he was with God and that reason for life became a human being and dwelt among us,
他和上帝在一起，生命的理由变成了一个人，住在我们中 间，
and we beheld his glory glory.
我们看到了他荣耀的荣耀。
as of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth,
作为父的独生子，充满了恩典和真理，
let me pray to finish father.
让我祈祷完成父亲。
we ask that you'd help us to understand these things and apply them to our lives,
我们要求您帮助我们理解这些事物并将它们应用到我们的 生活中，
and we ask that you would answer this request through the agency of your Holy Spirit in our hearts and through Jesus Christ.
我们要求你们通过你们圣灵的代理在我们心中和通过耶稣 基督来回应这个要求。
it's in his name.
这是他的名字。
we pray amen for more of the series and other resources from Timothy Keller and Redeemer Presbyterian Church.
我们为Timothy Keller和Redeeme r Presbyterian Church的更多系 列和其他资源祈祷。