RE: ...Truth?
June 28, 2017 at 8:23 pm
(This post was last modified: June 28, 2017 at 8:26 pm by LadyForCamus.)
(June 28, 2017 at 5:55 pm)Definitely Disillusioned Wrote: There's nothing to refute; perhaps you misunderstood. That statement does answer my original question: what makes you pursue truth? Thank you. For you, your decision seems to be arbitrary. In other words, for you, truth is not something that ought to be pursued, you just pursue it because. As I said to the other person who came to the same conclusion, I'll accept arbitrariness as an explanation.Why wouldn't any person living in the world strive to believe as many true things and as few false things as possible? Why does that need an explanation?
What the post was originally about was a deeper value of truth. Atheistic philosophers such as Bertrand Russell seem to pursue it for its own sake, and most atheists I've experienced hold "not being duped" as their motivation, not arbitrary "truthism." The original question was why "not being duped" is important.
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.
