So what if two or more roads diverged in a yellow wood?

During your juvenile years, you probably had the same set of questions in your mind:
If god was so powerful, influential, prevailing, authoritative, potent, then why didn’t he confront real problems? Why didn’t he stop wars? Why didn’t he eradicate hunger in Ethiopia? Why didn’t he cure cancer?

These and a set of whole bagful of questions popped out.

Shredding those infantile years and as one went ahead in life, one couldn’t just buy their reasoning. They had their sets of answers in their bags – which ranged from anything to “God’s Will”.

Let me explain what I meant when I said 'they/their'.

Recently I discovered a new word.

How do you describe a person exhibiting retention of juvenile characteristics even though he is an adult?

He is said to be ‘neotenous’. While this may relate to the physical aspect, I might be tempted to use this against cerebral characteristic. Let us say psychologically neotenous traits in humans could be: inquisitiveness, mischievousness, friendliness, sociality and an intrinsic desire to cooperate.

It I stretch this a little further – I would dare to say that most humans haven’t been able to shred their psychologically neotenous traits.

Otherwise how am I to explain the inability of man to shred their ‘neotenous’ years and go ahead in life, not buying those reasoning about a supernatural?

Anyways - then one day you realize:

It does not matter if two, three or even four roads diverge in a yellow or green wood. It does not matter if you are able to trek all the routes. It does not matter if you take the one less travelled.

“IT DOES NOT MATTER WHICH ROAD YOU TAKE OR HOW YOU TAKE IT”

Because nothing is going to make a difference

No matter what you say or do – all roads lead to the same end.

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Delusion - Insanity - Religion

First let as recall the meaning of delusion.

- A false belief or opinion.

- A false belief strongly held in spite of invalidating evidence, especially as a symptom of mental illness, as in schizophrenia.

- Something that is falsely or delusively believed or propagated.

- A persistent false psychotic belief regarding the self or persons or objects outside the self that is maintained despite indisputable evidence to the contrary; also : the abnormal state marked by such beliefs.

Synonyms:
chimera, conceit, daydream, fantasy, dream,fancy, figment, hallucination, illusion, nonentity, phantasm, pipe dream, unreality, vision

Antonyms:
truth, verity

Other Psychology Terms:
fetish, hypochondria, intelligence, mania, narcissism,neurosis, pathological, psychosis, schadenfreude, subliminal

Now the Question :

Can one be sympathetic to the American writer and philosopher, Robert Pirsig's statement in Lila: "when one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity, when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion?

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