(January 4, 2017 at 10:37 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Let us ask this question:
Is there a 100% accurate you?
Everything is always accurate, in its current state. It's a tautology: A thing or person is what it is. Due to the fact that everything in the universe is constantly changing, however, even if one could know the whole, precise truth about oneself it would automatically become false in the very next instant because something would have changed.
(January 4, 2017 at 11:00 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: There is true judgment just as there is a true you.
Any such "true you" is impermanent. You are not the same person you were 10 years ago, or the person you will be 10 years in the future -- and almost certainly within the next 100 years you will be dead, insentient, existing only in your works and in the memories of living people.
Quote:The question is how far are you willing to go to deny your Lord?
I cannot "deny" something that I sincerely believe is imaginary. I am someone who was born without the capacity to cultivate sincere religious faith; at most I can play along and make futile efforts to believe. I'm really, really tired of trying to fit myself into the role of a believer when it's never done me the least amount of good and wasted a great deal of time and energy. I require physical evidence. Philosophy and scripture simply won't do it.
I'm serious, MK: Your god appears to me as a fictional character, and there's nothing you can say or do that will change that. Evidence. Evidence that I can touch. A god that I can talk to, face to face, in the physical world. That's the only thing that has even the slightest chance of working.
(January 4, 2017 at 11:19 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: So there is no true you. No true judgment. No objective value.
That's how I see it. Value and judgment are subjective, and "you" can change or disappear in the twinkling of an eye.