Seems to me as a "Gestalt" theorist we spin bridges--sail ships over unchartered seas/continents...oh my Clark from the Lewis fame went mad--zonkers. No wonder they missed the Colombia River---"ooreeegon"...the Great NW passage by a few miles and went through the Rocky mountains on foot---no trails. Fifty years before that, one expedition went west and was never heard from. Eternity is an abyss, we should navigate it carefully!
Atheism is throwing map--compass--constellations away. There are no cut offs--shortcuts...lotta broken down wagons--sunken ships--Donner parties!
Plans--methodology matters!