(October 28, 2012 at 11:45 pm)festive1 Wrote: Precisely, who is to say. Everyone has their own mind, their own perceptions, and we are all simply getting through life the best way we can. That's it, nothing more.
Exactly. Beautiful. And for that, I love all of humanity, no matter how misguided they are.
Quote: One thing I truly admire about my husband is that he doesn't lie. He can't lie, he is really bad at it. Does it hurt when I ask, "Does this make me look fat?" and he can't lie? Yep. But personal integrity is as good as it gets in my estimation. So I punch him on the arm and go change.
Admiration requires belief in praise. And you are judging your husband. And you believe in your judgment.
But perhaps without myth in evolution of our minds, we would never believe in judgment in the first place.
Our human nature is human nature. We embrace it, but it might be founded on delusions.
We believe loving our children is praiseworthy. We believe in helping others.
These beliefs from point of view of evolution, developed because they worked. Not because they were true or that we knew they were true.
And we never reasoned them in cold hard logica way. It was all gut instinct that conformed to those morals.
The fact is being rational beings that sought justification by being intelligent, we very well may needed to believe in delusions.
Even our concept of self can be a delusion.
