@HexHammer,
HexHammer wrote:
The Pentacle Queen wrote:
Is this a 'valid' statement or a contradiction in terms?
And I am talking about 'good' both in aesthetic and moral terms.
At one time one has to make an assumption, else one could wait forever to gain absolute certainty by double blind test and yaddayadda.
If everything had to be scientific thus absolute certain, life would come to a halt. We have to dare, we have to take chances, we must take the beating and learn ..get wiser from it.
There is a lot in life that should come to a halt... When we think that to be we must do we are making a fundamental error of predicate... We can do because we are, and to remain alive, and keep humanity alive we must do well and good... Doing without knowing is pure stupidity, and that is the story of modern, mostly western, Civilization.. We are thoughtless, clueless, acting blindly out of faith... Time out should be given to consider consequences...
Let me see if I can put this another way... Our entire economy which is the justification for our wars and destruction of our environment grows out of faith, and to be exact, protestant Christianity... There is no reason or rational behind it, for as I have said, and others have noted: Humanity is not rational... We are rational only in the pursuit of our irrational goals... And this is our culture, and culture is knowledge; but what does one do when ones culture, which should be knowledge is instead a collection of prejudices and beliefs??? We do not learn only because those inflicting the suffering are not those suffering, and even those suffering the actions of humanity would as soon trade places with their torturers and goad the helpless...
In the end it is future generations who will know poison and deprivation because of our squandering today of precious resources, and they will learn war, and know death... Our culture is a non culture, an anti culture, an acid bath for cultures... The accumulated knowledge of humanity for its good health and continued survival is discredited to have one vast party for the individual.... To experience life to its fullest we must forfeit existence for humanity... Is there a problem with that???