Saving humanity from itself
- AresKenux
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Believe nothing? If we want to seek to know, then reality is, we know nothing. Because if you can't prove this physicality is not an illusion, without saying, "I think therefore i am", then reality is. We all know nothing. Knowledge itself is fleeting. Living is not the same as knowing, likewise knowing is not living. Taking a look at knowledge, the range of importance's is misleading and guided by one principle. Power. Knowledge in its absolute nature, is to put a harness on things that are always changing. And as though it weren't going to change, we become stale with as much as we supposedly know. There is no such as thing as "discovery", only the uncovering of things already existent. Creativity on other hand, pushes learning knowledge aside, and uses the devices learned into objective ranges. I say, i only know one thing, "All people and/or all things are subject to change whether we like it or not." Seek to know? I seek to understand living better than how i was before. Always moving forward. I seek to improve myself and hopefully take many people forward with me. Not by force, not by preaching, but by constant effort of showing myself as capable of changing on a dime. And if you want my truth? We all know that life is not fair. It's an uphill battle. The only justice we have in this life, is the one we make for ourselves.
"The mind is not meant to be used for storing information, but for processing information."
Perhaps, knowledge is just another word to describe something uncertain, in order to comfort us concerning reality?
To be frank, I believe i'd rather be decisive, than reactionary. Belief is certainly just a synonym for 'willpower through thoughts'.
- ThomasHobbes
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You keep shooting yourself in the foot.AresKenux wrote: ↑July 31st, 2018, 9:19 pm A flip of a switch in the mind.
Believe nothing? If we want to seek to know, then reality is, we know nothing. Because if you can't prove this physicality is not an illusion, without saying, "I think therefore i am", then reality is. We all know nothing. Knowledge itself is fleeting. Living is not the same as knowing, likewise knowing is not living. Taking a look at knowledge, the range of importance's is misleading and guided by one principle. Power. Knowledge in its absolute nature, is to put a harness on things that are always changing. And as though it weren't going to change, we become stale with as much as we supposedly know. There is no such as thing as "discovery", only the uncovering of things already existent. Creativity on other hand, pushes learning knowledge aside, and uses the devices learned into objective ranges. I say, i only know one thing, "All people and/or all things are subject to change whether we like it or not." Seek to know? I seek to understand living better than how i was before. Always moving forward. I seek to improve myself and hopefully take many people forward with me. Not by force, not by preaching, but by constant effort of showing myself as capable of changing on a dime. And if you want my truth? We all know that life is not fair. It's an uphill battle. The only justice we have in this life, is the one we make for ourselves.
"The mind is not meant to be used for storing information, but for processing information."
Perhaps, knowledge is just another word to describe something uncertain, in order to comfort us concerning reality?
To be frank, I believe i'd rather be decisive, than reactionary. Belief is certainly just a synonym for 'willpower through thoughts'.
I'd hate to have your confused mind.
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Re: Saving humanity from itself
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Your view accords with classical foundationalism according to which the rational person should adhere only to that which is evident to the senses, self-evident, or else derived from a process of reasoning. But this tenet is itself neither self-evident nor evident to the senses. Nor can it be derived from a process of reasoning. So your standpoint is self-refuting.
There are numerous propositions which are rationally believed without evidence, while being neither self-evident nor evident to the senses. For more on this, see: Anthony Kenny, What is Faith? Oxford University Press (1992).
"Unless you believe, you will not understand." (Isaiah 7:9)
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It is not self refuting at all. It works whether you like it or not. Induction is like that. Not perfect but it is all we have.Mlw wrote: ↑August 3rd, 2018, 2:47 amYour view accords with classical foundationalism according to which the rational person should adhere only to that which is evident to the senses, self-evident, or else derived from a process of reasoning. But this tenet is itself neither self-evident nor evident to the senses. Nor can it be derived from a process of reasoning. So your standpoint is self-refuting.
Inherently flawed.
There are numerous propositions which are rationally believed without evidence, while being neither self-evident nor evident to the senses. For more on this, see: Anthony Kenny, What is Faith? Oxford University Press (1992).
A lie.
"Unless you believe, you will not understand." (Isaiah 7:9)
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