(January 9, 2019 at 6:11 am)Thoreauvian Wrote:(January 8, 2019 at 11:32 pm)T0 Th3 M4X Wrote: Right. We are insufficient on our own. That doesn't mean we are always wrong, but we aren't always right either. So why put everything on unreliable beings?
The rest are open to interpretation. Rational ideas can lead to a wrong conclusion, just as irrational choices can lead to the right result. Evidence can be helpful, but it can also be detrimental if interpreted wrong. Science is sometimes superstition, and sometimes what we assume to be superstition ends up being the science of tomorrow.
What progress are you suggesting we've made? I see a volatile world, but maybe we view the world differently.
Learning to live by probabilities, and sometimes being wrong, is just an inescapable part of the human condition.
Why put everything on unreliable beings? Because, as I have already pointed out, we have no real choice. Even in relying on someone or something other than ourselves, we are relying on our own assessments and interpretations of them. It's inescapable.
Life is really hard.
You nailed it.
We differ in that I believe we do have a choice and it can be escaped, just not on our own.
