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Kalimar said:Because while society, and instruments of society such as language can temper people into a belief, as long as they're able to challenge that belief or consider alternatives, all ethics are not relative – they may be judged accordingly, but under what standards of judgment I do not know.
Probably a fallacious standard; they're projecting their own interpretations of good and bad on others, and judging based on these projections.
Do you think it's been a mistake of society--and each of us in particular--to classify meaning directly to the convictions we possess? Which is, that, by sticking to a certain morality, we can find way to belonging?
And, could meaning itself be hidden in the ameliorating rules?
ExistencePrecedesEssence said:Do you think it's been a mistake of society--and each of us in particular--to classify meaning directly to the convictions we possess? Which is, that, by sticking to a certain morality, we can find way to belonging?
And, could meaning itself be hidden in the ameliorating rules?
I don't think people stick to a certain morality for its own sake. I mean, well, they can, but most don't. Most stick to the herd for the sake of the herd; and they do this because being oneself -- being one's own particular little personality -- takes effort, pain, and that's just bad. Meaning can be found in this herd inclination, but it's outside the periphery of existential meaning -- meaning which works on a particular basis, forged out of my (and yours) already unique character.
There are no objective standards even in the hopes of trying to establish one, the problem stems from justification.
I concur. Although for me it might have a different meaning than to others.I like being a nihilist.
There's a correlation between depravity (or, more gently, lifelessness) and conformity. Authentic uniqueness is good; the uniqueness that extends from one's whole being, not the artificial, appearance-based uniqueness that the world thrives on. The uniqueness as a symptom of actualizing one's own meaning. That's what I mean.
Who said uniqueness is necessarily good?
What's so wrong with Christianity .... can you point out the problems you have with it?
No, I don't want to be a Nihilist. No one wants to be a nihilist. It's just the only realistic option remaining
My biggest problem with it is that it's probably not true.What's so wrong with Christianity .... can you point out the problems you have with it?
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