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and as much as wrong he was, as i said, he is the one that came up with some new ideas that made humankind realize the concept of 'thinking' about those possible
yeah
but it is truly a shame that nicomachean ethics influenced the christian mentality so much, which got to be dominant in the world later on
In the end, all philosophy is there to help us to try and think about God and other things. It is dangerous to get too involved in philosophy from a religious standpoint which may outweigh what is written in religious books like the Bible or Quran.
This is also a problem in the Church. Fashionable philosophy at each time shape the future rulings of the whole faith.
isn't that what basically happened to you? too much philosophy and the concept of critical thinking made you a heretic at the end hahaha?
Catholics, the largest denomination, are still entrenched in scholasticism and logic, which is perilous and for me was a big source of terror.
Yes.
i totally agree
Even so, even if you could 100% show that God exists and so on, it is still not a replacement for faith and internalisation of it in practice.
The role of reason is to give faith a justification, if there are doubts. It is a small medicine from a spiritual point of view.
although the wrong/corrupted dogmas in religions are what makes guys like kierkegaard and nietzsche great philosopher of all things and made us get to know them, if we were too look at the full half of the glass
Yes, nihilism brought me much darkness.But it also made me realise the value of meaning.
if you a nihilist
fo ssee a psychiatrist
unless you are a fake nihilst
The supreme value is God and through Him immortality. I know this now. But now I had to undo much thought habits.
in which case fuck you
Too much intellect has left my soul barren.
so you could solve the ultimate dilemma and reach god through pure logic?
how do you call it a value then and how can you fathom the idea?
If you are solely rational and only see that the material world exists, you get to a point where you see that all events are the same, all meaning is the same, or that there is no ultimate meaning. You have to move forward from this point of nihilism. Then you realise all you have is yourself and what makes it up. Your body continues to life. How to find meaning now, when everything material will one day all be gone? What is the point? etc.
You are damned but you are free from ultimate responsibility in this situation.
But to move forward, you have to make your own meaning somewhere.
i think i understand the reasoning behind your logic
let me copy a text from another server, tell me what you think about it
Let me finish.
alright
Then I realised that there was no meaning I could have that would be enough. An ultimate reality did not exist for me. And so I was back to the beginning, realising all mean is the same, transitory emptiness. Neitzsche wants to try to make a bridge across the abyss, but not even knowing there is another side, this is desperate and optimistic for its own sake. I realised then, that the only true meaning must transcend material and rational thought. It must, because there is nothing else to build meaning on. From the point of view of the self, it is really a soul. The ultimate meaning is Absolute, therefore the only meaning must be God.
But like I said, this is intellectualised, not yet understood.
Now post your thing.
let me grasp your rationale first
has the question of "why, why is there a **thing** at all" played a big role in your transitory thought process?
No. The thing already exists. It was not in my mind why. Why is not a necessary condition of existence.
Meaning is not the same as asking why. Purpose is the spark that motives you to do thinks beyond the minimum to exist, or exist at all.
don't you think this is centralized on your own consciousness and therefore is selfish, in a way?
I'm not sure how to answer it. Is there another way to exist outside of consciousness?
how do you get over the skepticism of your consciousness being authentic, as in if you indeed exist by any means or not, are you a believer of the argument of cogito ergo sum?
Definitely not. My epistemology basis was materialism. Only the material world exists. Consciousness arises from matter. It is just a subjective arises from physical processes.
what makes you so sure you're not a part of my dream of this reality, what makes you think you are not coded in a way and your reactions towards certain things are genuine?