(November 17, 2016 at 10:52 am)Ignorant Wrote: I have actually tried to be careful about using the word "should" or "ought". I try to avoid them. I think I used "should" one or two posts in reference to the OP, trying to meet it on its own terms. I don't think you will find me saying that anyone should care. I typically try to avoid telling people what they should do. I have been trying, instead, to begin with something much more basic: if there is a real relation which exists between you and god, the nature of that relation itself will either cause you to care/value/derive meaning from it, or not.
Even though the OP is phrased in the "should" form, I understood the underlying question really to be: "If there is a creator, is there a meaningful relationship between god and me?"
Ah right, so I take it you find prescriptive language less helpful than descriptive language.
Okay then how about this... how could I care about a god that exists? By having knowledge of it, yes, but that begs the question of how could I have knowledge of it? I couldn't care about god without knowledge.
So we could change the question from "If there is a creator, so what?" to "If there is a creator, how could I know it existed in order to even care?"
Because in other words... if it exists but its truth is unknowable and therefore impossible to know about... then, indeed, so what if it does? Who cares, unknowable truth is experienced as little as, and is as impossible to care about as, non-truth.
