Philosophy
Many of these require further explanation. Ask questions. Or I’ll get around to explaining eventually, I’m sure. Feel free to post rants about how wrong I am too. Those are always fun! :) <–not sarcasm
Things I Currently Believe:
▬everything that happens is due entirely to random chance
▬all humans have free will
▬as soon as a choice is made or an event takes place, it could never have happened any other way
▬truth is relative
▬conscience is relative
▬religion/God is relative
▬parameters are relative; definitions are not
▬our perceptions may not always be accurate but they are all we have to base our reason upon
▬our reason is always “correct,” considering the information available to it. but because the information may be flawed, our reason is not always “right”
▬the “infinite” and the “finite” are not mutually exclusive
▬the only absolute knowledge we can have is that we perceive (ex: we know that we perceive the sky is blue but we cannot know that the sky is, in fact, blue.)
▬”purpose” is not innate. it is random and evolutionary.
▬nothing tangible can be infinite. it can only be continuously growing.
▬”potential” can be (but is not necessarily) infinite
▬there are no innate ideas. ideas are based on experience.
▬no human being is obligated (i.e. duty bound) to contribute to socitey/eachother, however…
▬no human being possesses any rights that he or she did not earn through contribution or constructive use of those rights
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1. I do not agree that the truth is relative. In fact, I think you contradict yourself here with your point that “definitions are not” relative, which I agree with. After all, truth is a definition. Aside this fact, I think truth is a very unique aspect of nature, in the way that something is either true or it is not: exempli gratia, a particle either has mass m, or it hasn’t (because its mass is 2m, say). So we cannot say that the truth is relative, basing on my argument.
On the other hand, it depends on what you (by you I mean you) mean by “truth”: if it is the truth of perception (exempli gratia.: a particle moves towards you, but it moves away from me, because one of us is moving, too — a statement “the particle moves towards me” is true, but its truthness is relative), then you are absolutely right.
Now that I come to think about it after I have wrote the above two paragraphs, I think you are right anyway, because my second paragraph is more general and, in fact, incorporates the first one (id est, a mass of a particle is a truth, percieved equally by everyone).
Nonetheless, what did you mean by “truth”?
2. “the ‘infinite’ and the ‘finite’ are not mutually exclusive” — please explain
3. “the only absolute knowledge we can have is that we perceive (ex: we know that we perceive the sky is blue but we cannot know that the sky is, in fact, blue.)” — absolutely agree and had a large-large number of arguments with a few fellows, who refused believing me… bunch’a fools =)
You should write these ideas in more formallity, preceeded by a few definitions of yours: id est, definitions of infinite, finite, truth, correct, et cetera.
=)
Hello,
I just randomly found your blog, and it’s invitation to comment on the statements you currently believe to be true. So I will.
Your first and third statement,
▬everything that happens is due entirely to random chance
▬as soon as a choice is made or an event takes place, it could never have happened any other way
are contradicting. The first one is a statement which fits in the present day scientific ‘view of life’. Due to the randomized nature of the very smallest building stones of our universe, subatomic particles, replaying the exactly same ’scene’ can bring different results. Thus, as soon a choice is made or an event takes place, it, in fact, could have happened another way.
The other statement is one which often is found in deterministic viewpoints. Determinist has a very interesting article on Wikipedia. Check it out.
That’s it for me, good luck