Re: The Negation of the Self is the Actualization of the Self.
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 4:13 pm
Dealt with that thread in one mode or another. Secular morality, emphasized in communistic atheism is just as evil. It appears you are angry with the human condition and blaming religion for it.Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Thu Oct 11, 2018 7:08 amI don't believe in absolute certainty.Eodnhoj7 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 11, 2018 5:41 amAre you certain about this?Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Thu Oct 11, 2018 5:19 am Humans do not need absolute certainty to ensure optimal survival.
I am however I believe in relative certainty based on available empirical evidence, empirically justified possibilities, rationality, critical thinking and philosophy-proper.
Note no humans can be absolutely certain the Sun will rise tomorrow.
Despite that humans has evolved and progress since 6 million years ago.
It is the same with all other existing empirical events and those that are empirically possible.
There is no need for an actualization of a transcendental self to ensure humanity evolved and progress efficiently and morally.
Rather what is sufficient is humans need knowledge that are empirically real, rational, morally guided and possible to facilitate the individual's survival optimally and therefrom the preservation of the human species.
Why is it sufficient considering there are factions with empiricism?
Duality is inevitable within the empirical world.
Despite that the human species is growing and not facing an immediate threat of extinction.
There is also a positive trend of secular morality, e.g. the legal abolishment of chattel slavery by all recognized nations plus many other trends of improvement based on secular views.
Duality a constant abstraction however and you blur the the senses with pure reason at that point. Empiricism may be defined by dualism but dualism is not limited to empiricism.
Actually the word slavery is subject to equivocation as it has many different meanings. Lower class jobs and people being exploited by various industries sucas as Wal-Mart, the education system, etc still can be argued as placing a dual low income debt structure around the individual effectively mirroring the slave structure. Also the increase of prostitution in first world countries relative to third world countries show an a shift in value systems toward relegating the individual as strictly a financial means.
Looking at not just the financial but chaotic state America and Europe are in one cannot place am effective argument around secular morality and government without taking a faith stance.
While empirical knowledge is never absolutely certain, it is effective enough to be used to prevent the human species from extinction to the extreme frontiers of enabling humans to possibility of deflecting a rogue meteorite from outer space heading in Earth's path and totally destroying it.
Empirical evidence of this, As the argument is rooted in abstractions of possibility?
First there are empirical evidences to support the above, so it is empirically possible.
There have been big meteors striking Earth and some with terrible catastrophe[s] to life on Earth.
These days we have large telescopes to look outward that can detect the presence of large meteorites and scientists can easily calculate their likely path to determine their likelyhood of hitting Earth.
Actually scientists admits to observing only a low margin of all possible asteroids that may hit. Memory says 4 percent of all asteroids are observed...but I may be really wrong.
Also the evidence shows that life continued after the meteor strikes, it just evolved.
Now what is the most effective use of establishing the ideology of the Absolute based on faith, i.e. not on reason nor proofs?
Can such an ideology and belief contribute to the overall well being of humankind and the possibility to deflect a rogue meteor coming towards Earth in say 500 years time?
Limit and no limit as universal axioms provide the foundation through the axioms of the point, line and circle being constants.
Axioms related to geometry are extracted from the empirical.
I am asking how is the belief in no-self and God contribute directly to the progress of humanity in the same manner as Science and other fields of knowledge can do.
So the empirical sets the premise for infinity and abstraction.
Because the issues science deals with reflect the moral problems of a civilization that presents the self as over others. Extreme selfishness is the foundation of evil considering the self is absent of definition.
God, was the foundational belief of the majority of scientists and represents structure, balance, order, peace, etc...regardless of religious state.
Science has not solve the question of morality without pointing to some form of religion.
Actually the ideology of the Absolute on the individual level is pure selfishness and for own personal interests at the subconscious level.
Is this an absolute statement?
As I had stated I do not believe in the absolutely absolute.
The above point can be inferred from empirical evidences of the behavior and reactions of believers toward criticism of their beliefs in the Absolute.
I have argued the basis of a believe in the Absolute, Oneness, and what you are claiming here are based on the impulses of an existential crisis pulsating subliminally.
At the extreme some one can kill you if you critique their beliefs in the Absolute.
No absolutely absolute....is an absolute statement.
You actually provide no argument about existential crisis except it is a subliminal impulse....Without giving empirical evidence or explaining why.
I am honestly having difficulting taking your emotionally fueled arguments and hatred seriously...you are coming off as a bigot.
Where the ideology of the Absolute [aka] is imputed into organized religions, there is some moral benefits but that has limitations and loads of negatives/cons to humanity.
Actually the absolute is premised in philosophical reasoning as well, along with mathematics, geometry and logic as the roots of empirical definition.
But note philosophical reasonings has its root in the empirical.
Note:
The Evolution of Reason: Logic as a Branch of Biology (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology)
https://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Reason ... 0521791960
Thus whatever is reducible to the empirical not the transcendental absolute.
The yearning and reifying of a transcendental absolute not based on proofs nor reason is due to terrible psychological impulses.
And the empirical is rooted in the abstract. Platonic solids, while reflected in empirical means are not limited in them.
Actually you cannot keep blaming the psychological impulse without blaming the physical world for it as according to you the impulses are premised within the brain hence premised in materiality,
But you claim only the senses can be true when the senses are made of matter themselves and subject to flux.
You claim there is a moral problem....but this may well be an empirical illusion.
After writing that paragraph I came to the realization of how absurd your argument is based upon its premised alone. To avoid confusion I will just read your next posts and provide a few sentence argument at the bottom, I frankly cannot take your lack of reason seriously.
The only rational answers to the emergence of the idea of an Absolute, Oneness, Unity, God, and the likes is because of the human brain/mind generating a defense mechanism [of various degrees] to soothe a terrible psychological existential crisis within the subconscious mind.
And where is the empirical evidence of this? Regardless, considering measurement is premised in unity and 1, at minimum, through the observation of variables as 1 or unity in themselves, all empiricism as a form of measurement is premised in this unity as materiality is the great unifier.
Here are the arguments and supporting research;
"No-I" NonDualism is a Defense Mechanism
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=25259
This point is a fact not ad hominen.
The facts are proven from research findings that confirm there is a continuum to it from the mildest to the most unified.
And what research is this? And what about research that says religion is necessary? How do you measure one form of empiricism relative to another without moving to abstractions as a constant form of measurement?
see the above link to the thread I raised on the issue.
I agree religions at present is a critical necessity for the majority but that is to soothe the personal inherent unavoidable terrible psychological sufferings from an existential crisis.
Theistic religions are grounded on an illusion of the Absolute aka God.
While there are some positives from theistic religions, there are also terrible evil and violent acts from theistic religions.
This is why we need to expose the roots of religions based on an illusory Absolute and find alternative fool proof non-theistic self-development programs as replacements to deal with that inherent UNAVOIDABLE existential crisis in the future.
The most serious cases of depersonalization and its forms has enable some believers to commit terrible evil and violent acts upon non-believers and others.
What could be more personal than removing a person's dignity and right to live out of hate...cruelty and malice are not objective as objectively speaking cruelty and hate leads to an absence of structure when not kept in balance. True ruthlessness shows there is no point in being ruthless.
Note the critical element here is the terrible evil and violent acts theistic believers clinging the Absolute aka God are pounding on innocent non-believers merely because they do not believe in a God or the same God as them.
How can that be personal and selfish when the concern is extended to 2+ billion people being brainwashed by evil laden ideologies and 5+ billion being vulnerable to their evil acts.