Well I had to chuckle in seeing the two articles you provide as evidence some positivity in your writings. The first is discussing pessimists avoiding despair and the second is published in a blog titled grim tidings! (I will read them.. not being dismissive, just chucking.)

I have some sympathy for the idea morality (even a spirituality) could be constructed from first principles w/o resort to a deity. even some half-hearted ideas of “theorems” one might derive with parallels to existing moral/religious thought.

but this line of thinking reminds me of a quote from CS Lewis the abolition of man. Towards the end of the book he imagines that science will decontstruct religion and faith, and seems to see it as inevitable. But then he wishes for a science that does not tear down meaningfulness, but rather enriches it. (that is from memory, long ago read.)

What I took away from that small section of the book, was a request that we adopt a stance that is constructive towards human meaningfulness…. that as we fashion a new understanding of things, we still see the sacred in those things. As I am telling it now, this is not an appeal to retain a deity within the system, but to retain the uplifting sacred understanding within the system. Whether the facts we derive are or are not scared is more a matter of how we receive those facts rather than merely their logical content.

not sure that idea was articulated very well, but it is Saturday night, and I am on my second scotch.

Cheers