(August 28, 2019 at 6:16 pm)Acrobat Wrote:(August 28, 2019 at 5:36 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: We certainly do live our lives by historic facts. everything you do is informed by facts from your own history. Everything that ever happened to you to make up your history, happened because operation of the world of which science is the only credible guide for our understanding.
You have morality not because god actually existed to gave it to you. It is because the circumstances of your life and the evolutionary history of all your ancesters and all the ancesters of your fellow men caused you perceive the an urge to behave in a certain way and accept the fictious god as a self-justifying rationale for behaving this way.
There is no higher truth. Higher truth is a fiction that stands in the way of deeper understanding of reality.
The original comment was a guide to live our life by
If we accumulated all the historical and scientific facts, all we’d have is what is and what used to be.
There’s no guide to live our life by among them. In fact there nothing that says I should live at all, let alone how I ought to live.
If history and scientific facts are no guide than what is?
You could do a lot better than the Bible as a guide by which to live your life (such as 'Meditations' or the 'Analects). I mean, unless you'd prefer stoning your children or being condemned to eternal punishment for thought crime.
Boru
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