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Ah, excellent question; I have no idea :P…well, I sorta do but it’s gonna sound really weird.
Ok, so in dictionaries “temporal” is (an adjective but I’m using it as a noun) “1. Related to worldly as opposed to spiritual affairs; secular. 2. Of or relating to time.”
Basically Ehud is wondering if there’s a point to his moral compass. If you start with the premise that there is no God then you can only reach one conclusion; morality is subjective. Following this train of thought all the consequences of no right or wrong but a need for order requires a lot of “psychology” to “fix” the chaos. As a result of no virtue or good to seek after people will naturally put happiness in the center of their entire thought-process meaning there’s no room for anything but selfishness since everything then reduces to a “zero-sum game”.
Temporal is what Ehud’s world would look like if everyone acted on atheism. Well…actually not cos that would be communism so it would look more like…well anyway, it’s super simplified to just focus on what’ll really affect Ehud. Everything goes on like normal but if everything is about filling self there’s no capability for any love or any real connection with people, instead it’s a quid pro quo situation.
As for the second definition, time is going to be a little quirky in this scenario because he is a “newcomer” but it’s also utopia-distopia version of his world and if he didn’t exist in it the whole thing would be affected and I only want to focus on the one variable of morality being irrelevant. Lucy is going to be the only person who realizes he’s a newcomer because she’ll be the one with a “full deck” only on the temporal level.
Additionally, Lucy has kaleidoscope eyes because LSD is supposed to be the closest modern thing to a euphoria sort of drug. Kaleidoscope colors is one of the most recognized affect of the drug and Ehud’s dad was a drug addict so it’ll strike a nerve with him. LSD causes constant restlessness which is a also very common thing you notice in people who have no interest in morality. The sense of real unrealness and shinny scenery is part of the augmented sensory response to LSD as well as depersonalization, high blood pressure and heart rate etc. LSD users frequently react to a bad “trip” suicidally or homicidally. All of the above is also similar to symptoms you can find in a nation with decadent morality. (Oh, also, never touch pills you don’t know about cos LSD pills absorb into skin even if you don’t swallow them along with a buncha other drugs and I watch way too many murder mysteries:)
The rule “never ask why” is important because once you follow that train of thought subjective morality becomes no morality. As long as people don’t think about it it’s a very powerful philosophy as you can see in present America. But once you follow the train of thought people need purpose so much and when there’s no purpose to life you become either suicidal or homicidal or both.
So, to sum up, I guess Ehud’s worst fear is atheism…
Huh…that doesn’t sound quite as dumb as I thought it would…(on the other hand I think I’ve confused myself now)