(October 18, 2017 at 8:57 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(October 18, 2017 at 5:53 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: You believe that because you are unable intellectually to connect meaning and purpose to a godless world, nobody else is either, and therefore a godless world is meaningless and any worldview based upon it is necessarily nihilistic. I hate to burst your bubble, but your inability to conjure up a naturalistic answer to the question of meaning doesn't settle the matter. All you're doing is pointing out the limits of your intellect. That's an argument from ignorance, plain and simple.
Well, since you're not offering up any explanation for how you avoid nihilism, I put you down for the 'ignorant' category.
(October 18, 2017 at 3:57 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Sigh. Oh no! The bogeyman! No, you haven't avoided nihilism with your "first principles", you've simply bogged yourself down in a dilemma you can't resolve rationally so you resort to faith based statements, arguments from ignorance, and ad hominems.
Ad hominem? If the shoe fits, wear it, babe. I see you're not trying to defend yourself against the charge of being a nihilist. Maybe because you know that's what you are. Faith-based argument? Like what? Chosing to accept the first principles you deny like, oh say, the Principle of Non-Contradiction. Y'all got nothing. Nada. No positive contribution, just jeering from the sidelines like your old pal Hume or boiling your watch while looking at an egg.
(October 18, 2017 at 3:57 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: You're ignoring the fact that God's character, whatever it is, is completely arbitrary.
Riiigghhhttt...keep telling yourself that. The self-delusion is strong in this one. The only thing that's arbitrary is your brute-fact magical universe that somehow works for no reason at all.
So, no answer for the dilemma then, huh? I didn't think so. You're a waste of time, Neo.