(January 13, 2016 at 12:48 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: Mystic, part of me actually sympathizes with you, because I feel like you are wrestling nightmarishly with something you will never be able to pin down. It seems like it is eating you up inside. Don't let these thoughts keep you up at night! Just live life as it appears in front of you.
First, the moon and people are not analogous. It's like when people compare metabolism to the engine of a car. Sounds like a neat comparison, but humans are in fact, NOT cars. It's an oversimplified and inaccurate analogy.
Second, I feel like you don't understand use of the word "value" when it comes to objective versus subjective. You can measure the size of the moon, and you can measure how tall I am. Those are objective values. My family subjectively values me because they love me and would be upset if I died. I subjectively value the moon because I think it's pretty, and helps me to see when I am driving at night. Understand?
You family subjectively loves you more then others, because they are closer to you, but they also know there is a objective value to who you are, or would not subjectively love you. They cannot subjectively chose to love you without believing there is an objective value to who you are even if they don't know it exactly. Yet something must know it exactly because it's about quality and not mere weight that simply exists.
A glass, you add more water, it has more water, however with the value of the self, there needs to be perception to it, otherwise you cannot add value to it. The objective judge/seeing one is himself the ultimate judge of what a good deed is and how much it ought to increase your value.
