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Started by Jasper, June 08, 2010, 01:10:40 AM

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nerinamakani

I'm just putting in my vote for constructed moralities.. (and the option of having arbitrary(admitedly) certainty in them)

thou shall not kill..

don't eat meat..

whatever you want to make up for your, and whoever will listen to yous happiness..

At least putting in my vote for trying it out as a world view. Not for wearing it as your heart, more like your clothes.
Warning: Definitions may become blurry as you enter the white light of mysticism.

Jasper

So you say, but I still maintain that any rule you could make would still be based on a guess or an  inference rather than actual (100%) certainty.


nerinamakani

Certainly. :P

That's why I called it arbitrary certainty.

Sure it's a proxy. But it can be an entertaining and or momentarily useful one.
Warning: Definitions may become blurry as you enter the white light of mysticism.

Adios

Hillbilly definition; PRESUMED.


Just when you think you have shit figured out some asshat will prove you wrong.


amiright?


nerinamakani

Warning: Definitions may become blurry as you enter the white light of mysticism.

Jasper

Quote from: Hawk on June 08, 2010, 09:08:03 PM
Hillbilly definition; PRESUMED.


Just when you think you have shit figured out some asshat will prove you wrong.


amiright?




If you're lucky.

Adios

Quote from: Sigmatic on June 08, 2010, 09:13:26 PM
Quote from: Hawk on June 08, 2010, 09:08:03 PM
Hillbilly definition; PRESUMED.


Just when you think you have shit figured out some asshat will prove you wrong.


amiright?






If you're lucky.

I am not making light of your OP. I am trying to wrap my head around it is all.

Jasper

What can I fill in/reexplain from a different angle?

nerinamakani

""From the hideously complex miasma of information and energy we emerged, too brief to become sure of anything and too brilliant to sit there looking dumbfounded.  Life is cosmic brevity, a disease of matter that lives on the edges of sustainability.""
THIS for the win.

I'm not sure this whole lot to fill in or explain.

Perhaps why we cry at chick flicks?

:)
Warning: Definitions may become blurry as you enter the white light of mysticism.

Adios

Quote from: Sigmatic on June 08, 2010, 09:20:38 PM
What can I fill in/reexplain from a different angle?

Please don't take offense. To me it almost originally came across as the accept jebus model with caveats. Then after you later explanation it made more sense.

Basically: don't trust anything, not even your own brain, and especially don't trust anybody who talks about "universal good".

That actually cleared up a lot of it.

Jasper

@Hawk,

Okay, glad I was able to clarify.  Don't worry about offending me easily, though- I don't want that reputation, and try not to earn it.

@nerina

Out of context, that's not what I mean.

In context:  

We cry at chick flicks and laugh at catastrophe.

It is supposed to underpin our lack of appropriate moral priorities.