(December 12, 2019 at 7:39 pm)maxolla Wrote:(December 12, 2019 at 7:06 pm)Alex K Wrote: > What do you consider as prime reality?
I don't understand the question
> What is the purpose of history or does it serve a purpose?
understanding the present and the future
> How did human existence begin?
depends on where you make the cut in the past coupla million years.
> What is morality?
A standard by which beliefs, thoughts and actions are judged as good or bad, which is usually based on justification from an imagined higher power. As such, I have little use for it and prefer to think about ethics.
> Where do you decide what is right and wrong?
On the loo
> What do you believe in with absolute certainty?
Nothing, and not even that
What happens to you when you die?
How do you construct your ethics?
Max
Are you just going to keep asking questions? Are you working towards some elaborate "Comforting" gotcha moment?
Anyhow, I have so much work to do, I'll have time to construct ethics when I'm dead, which answers both your questions. But seriously, personal ethics are considerations rooted in basic values, and I got those probably in equal parts from being human and thus wired accordingly, and my upbringing and cultural background.
When I'm dead, my thoughts and memories will be lost in time like tears in the rain, and all the parts my wife doesn't want to keep will be donated to science. Says so on the card in my wallet.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
