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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @south_korea_ln 29 Nov \ parent \ on: what to do about human stupidity? alter_native

We'll have to agree to disagree here. I fundamentally cannot find myself in the following statement:

solipsism, also known as moral relativism, is one of the tenets of satanism. people struggle to accept the fact that truth is universal and absolute, that there is such a thing as absolute rights and wrongs.

solipsism is different from moral relativism, as far as i know
it's not because I'm a moral relativist that i have anything to do with satanism. That's a not sequitur.
sounds like circular reasoning. Invoking it as a fact that truth is absolute. Truth is man-made to me. Nothing absolute to me. It's just that a lifestyle that doesn't harm others too much is most likely to survive in the long term, hence it's good enough for me to live by such lifestyle.

Anyhow... You've got your truth, i got mine (spoken as a moral relativist~~).

Have a good day :)

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @zapsammy OP 29 Nov

i wud cast a stronger spell on u if i cud; i gotta study more, for now i am out of arguments 😇

one more thing... u have a very logical mind, posting really cool problems. i am out of practice, so i started reviewing math & geometry so i can tackle those.

many are stuck in the logical side of the brain. the abstract side has to be engaged in order to achieve holistic thought - so many things become clear, rapidly. then there is Stephen Hawking - he ventured so far left that he emerged on the right, without passing thru the median (that's why medi-tation is so helpful).

3 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln 29 Nov

Thanks for the kind words.

And yeah, maybe one day I'll manage to tap into the abstract side of my brain. It's a gift and a curse to be be very/too logical. My wife does not always like it~~