(October 24, 2017 at 12:45 am)Khemikal Wrote: Half baked mysticism, and in the process.... a reduction of the terms evil and morality to meaningless. I doubt you know the cause of your own proximate suffering, let alone all human suffering.
I don't believe this is mysticism. This is physics, the Law of Causality, cause and effect, action and reaction. What I'm saying seems to be mysticism because the effects or reactions that I'm talking about are not immediate. They may take months, or years or decades or lifetimes to manifest. An example of effects that are not seen right away is delayed onset muscle soreness. This is the pain and stiffness felt in muscles several hours to days after unaccustomed or strenuous exercise. The soreness is felt most strongly 24 to 72 hours after the exercise (from Wikipedia). If the delay for the muscle soreness be felt were to become longer, say 6 months, we would not know why the soreness is there. The same would happen if our memories where extremely short. Let's say we forget the exercise we did by the end of the hour, and the next morning we wake up sore. It would seem mysticism to suggest exercise caused it. But it is not mysticism, it is physics! There are a lot of examples of delayed effects: eating junk, smoking, and practicing bad habits of most types. The negative effects on our lives may not be obvious for a long time.
