RE: Euthyphro dilemma
October 19, 2017 at 8:19 am
(This post was last modified: October 19, 2017 at 8:30 am by The Grand Nudger.)
No one has to provide you an answer for how they escape nihilism to establish that you have not evaded a dilemma, Neo. Even if they couldn't provide an answer..that won't mean that you've somehow escaped the dilemma.
I have to say, that's one of the most blisteringly stupid and common behaviors of shithouse apologists. Getting caught peddling bullshit, they bitch about someone else as though it would change the fact that they were caught peddling bullshit. My kids do that all the time, too. I catch one of them with their hand in the cookie jar..and they use the other to point at their sibling rummaging through the fridge.
Okay buddy, your sister is in the fridge, and your hand is still in the cookie jar...so?
Or, in Neo-ese "Oh yeah? Well, you're a nihilist!"
Tell me, as a person who seems to think that claiming someone else is a nihilist is the end all be all response to any old thing...what intrinsic meaning to life can be claimed by a person who feels that all meaning must be assigned by a god in it's arbitrary? Perhaps, as has been commented on so often, the things we habitually accuse others of has alot to do with the hobgoblins of our own minds. You see no intrinsic value, and so accuse others of the same. You seek to escape your own nihilism by positing a god..but positing your god no more escapes nihilism than it escapes euphyros dilemma.
I have to say, that's one of the most blisteringly stupid and common behaviors of shithouse apologists. Getting caught peddling bullshit, they bitch about someone else as though it would change the fact that they were caught peddling bullshit. My kids do that all the time, too. I catch one of them with their hand in the cookie jar..and they use the other to point at their sibling rummaging through the fridge.
Okay buddy, your sister is in the fridge, and your hand is still in the cookie jar...so?
Or, in Neo-ese "Oh yeah? Well, you're a nihilist!"
Tell me, as a person who seems to think that claiming someone else is a nihilist is the end all be all response to any old thing...what intrinsic meaning to life can be claimed by a person who feels that all meaning must be assigned by a god in it's arbitrary? Perhaps, as has been commented on so often, the things we habitually accuse others of has alot to do with the hobgoblins of our own minds. You see no intrinsic value, and so accuse others of the same. You seek to escape your own nihilism by positing a god..but positing your god no more escapes nihilism than it escapes euphyros dilemma.
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