RE: Human Value Nonexistent?
October 31, 2012 at 8:02 pm
(This post was last modified: October 31, 2012 at 8:34 pm by Mystic.)
(October 31, 2012 at 5:37 pm)DoubtVsFaith Wrote:(October 31, 2012 at 5:04 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Well right now we believe in praise, because we believe it objective worth, even if we don't perceive it.
In what way do we all believe that praise is necessarily objective?
Someone praises us, we then like the idea, but then think about how much it's true about us. Someone insults us, we get hurt, but then have our own self-perception, if they are right about us. We believe there is an objective judgment to who we are. Even if we don't know it ourselves.
When we think about who we are, we don't only think about who were currently are, but that is biggest reflection, but all we remember about ourselves. But why do we even feel attachment to past self?
Why do we think past actions influence the "greatness" of who we are?
No one will claim they know their exact worth, but most people will have a sense of pride. Pride is not possible without some sort of believe that there is an objective value to yourself.
Ofcourse, that pride is not a measurement of that objective value necessarily, but it's approximation from subjective point of view, of who we are.
But we wouldn't even make a subjective approximation without belief that there is an objective measurement to who we are.
I become the hearing with which he hears, the sight wherewith he sees, the tongue wherewith he speaks, - hadith qudsi
We have encompassed everything in compassion and knowledge
- quran
And we taught Adam all the names
- quran
And by the light of your face that encompasses all things - du'a kumail
The guided are only guided by light of your face - Saheefa Sajadiya
And I blew into him my spirit - Quran.
"The blessed word is is like a blessed tree, it's rooted in the well in the ground and it's fruits are in the sky" - Quran
Perhaps Magical thinking is the only way to justify our perception of praise, good and evil.
To me, it seems that way.