There Is Nothing New Under the Sun

Now, I am taking a cue from the book of Ecclesiastes in writing this- perhaps as the best way to showcase unoriginality. The history of thought is, if slightly varied, still rather basic. The Epicurean and Stoic philosophies of the Greeks eventually became our existentialist and romantic/ aesthetic philosophies. Another thing to note is the limitation of any philosophy. Man cannot be all, that is, free, happy, and meaningful. Existentialism takes away meaning. Aestheticism prevents meaning also, when logically carried through. Christianity limits freedom, although recognizes that such freedom is actually impossible. Perhaps that is why the religious answer makes so much sense to me, that is, that it is realistic enough to realize that freedom is only possible for God. I would like to paraphrase A.W. Tozer here, when he states in the "Knowledge of the Holy" that absolute freedom is impossible for two beings. Eventually, they will have to collide. I guess what I am trying to say is that only God can be original and truly unique. Only the spiritual can be original. That said, the temporal is not to be separated from the spiritual, and we should be free to mix our lives- in fact, we ought to allow our spiritual and temporal parts to mix.