RE: [split] Are Questions About God Important?
November 30, 2023 at 2:03 pm
(This post was last modified: November 30, 2023 at 2:05 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Thats the crux of it, and at least this time our court jester manages to joke his way into something useful. If water is only important because water is yummy, then the importance of water is non cognitive. It's not based on any fact or truth apt statement - it's just...well...yum (when it is...).
Now.....I think that many of us would agree that water is yum, but that's not all it is, so we have to search for a term that refers to the set of justifications for the rest of that content beyond just yum. Blamo, we're into the subjective. Where our ideas about the importance of water are not simply that we think water=yum - but that water really is, for reasons specific to a given agent alone, important. Here again I think that none of us here would have a problem accepting that. I know I don't. Water is yum+..at least. Now we get to the relative, or to the intersubjective. Honestly I don't know whether it's more accurate to handle these separately or lump these two together as different terms for the same thing - I could go either way..as we'll soon see. Where water is yum, but not just yum, yum plus whatever it is to me..and..further, yum+ whatever it is to me+ whatever it is to any other subject or group of subjects. I think...at least up to this point...there's not going to be a single person here - believer or otherwise, that isn't onboard with all of that.
So, already, we have an aswer to the question that created this thread. If there is no god, how is anything important? Well, at least three ways so far...the god proposition being a subset of one of the three sets, actually.
Now.....I think that many of us would agree that water is yum, but that's not all it is, so we have to search for a term that refers to the set of justifications for the rest of that content beyond just yum. Blamo, we're into the subjective. Where our ideas about the importance of water are not simply that we think water=yum - but that water really is, for reasons specific to a given agent alone, important. Here again I think that none of us here would have a problem accepting that. I know I don't. Water is yum+..at least. Now we get to the relative, or to the intersubjective. Honestly I don't know whether it's more accurate to handle these separately or lump these two together as different terms for the same thing - I could go either way..as we'll soon see. Where water is yum, but not just yum, yum plus whatever it is to me..and..further, yum+ whatever it is to me+ whatever it is to any other subject or group of subjects. I think...at least up to this point...there's not going to be a single person here - believer or otherwise, that isn't onboard with all of that.
So, already, we have an aswer to the question that created this thread. If there is no god, how is anything important? Well, at least three ways so far...the god proposition being a subset of one of the three sets, actually.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
