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The mystery of our own existence. Yes. But only of the mechanisms of existence. Not of the raison d'etre. In that, we are all equally mystified; whether we have the wisdom and courage to admit it or not.

Regardless, all we have is our ability to understand, limited though it is. And it is with that limited understanding that we choose to move through the world. (Or choose not to in the case of atheists.)

Because for we humans, "God" is an ideal. A conceptual paradigm we use to help us understand and evaluate the complexity of our everyday existence.

Wisdom can be found in the God ideal. But so can a lot of crazy.

Amen, sister!

"I could be wrong, but not about anything that matters." 😳 I think willingness has a lot to do with it. The willingness to recognize that we are prone to such myopic presumptions about reality that aren't accurate.

Sure took him a long time to say anything.

So they didn't "lay siege" to any government buildings. They just blocked streets, as public protests commonly do.

"I could be wrong, but not about anything that matters." 😳

Let me stop you, here. Understand that we do not have to know WHAT we don’t know, to know THAT we don’t know. In fact, if we could know WHAT we don’t know, it would be false to then claim that we don’t know it. So none of us has to be aware of what or how we are being in-cognizant of reality to...

Thinking isnlt really that arduous once you get used to it. You just have to get past the knowing it all stage, so you can wonder again. I realize that's uncomfortable for a lot of people and I understand why. And it's OK to assume that reality is as we think it is so long as we aren't tryng to...

Most people are quite aware that reality as we perceive it is not the same as reality as it is. We have all misperceived reality often enough to understand that this is so. We can ignore this difference so long as it poses no significant problems for us as we move through the world, but in fact...

Existence is both subjective and objective in that it contains 'what is' AND what we think is, is. The truth is both, even though they don't necessarily jive with each other. Unfortunately, we humans don't want to accept this because it's confusing to us, and unsettling. We want to believe that...

Thank God! :)

There are MANY other 'good parts' of humanity. And the loss may only be for a moment in history. Keep in mind this is all a hypothetical that has no current basis in reality.

I think we first have to acknowledge that there is a difference between an ethical principal and a moral action. Morality is the ethical assessment of behavior. So to be precise, there are no 'moral principals', there is only moral and immoral behavior as determined by ethical assessment. But...

I would assert that there is an even more fundamental objective basis for establishing value than the avoidance of suffering, and that is that it is better to exist than not to exist. As evidenced by the nature of everything that does exist struggling in whatever ways that are possible, to keep...

I'm done with this silliness. I've made my point a half dozen times by now. If you can't understand it then I can't help you.

I don't think you've understood this conversation from the start. I have nothing at all against people choosing to call rape, torture, and murder inexcusably wrong. I agree with them. My obection is to this weird insistence that once you have chosen this position, it has then somehow become...

Various cultures have done those things in the past, mostly in the service of their gods. So it's not unreasonable to think humans may come to do them again at sometime in the future. So all these proclamation of absolute morality just don't seem to apply to the real world. If we can choose to...