(April 2, 2013 at 2:39 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: It's not so far off, Mystic, as there are many people who feel that if you vehemently disagree with them and find their beliefs and values disgusting, then you are personally insulting them.
But neither you or I have this view. So the title is far off.
Also, I think when we find beliefs disgusting, we think of them, "how does this belief feel to me from the perspective of my knowledge and perception" and then think "this is how it should(or does) feel to them"
But it's not necessarily the case. Also, is the impact of how much praise of the value you get as feed back from your society.
Today, slavery is mostly condemned, because we have reached a praise consensus. So it's clear.
But to the people of the past, without that praise consensus, can we apply how it feels to us or should feel to us given our knowledge and feedback we have, to that of society in the past who didn't get that feedback?
They may have deep inside felt it might've been wrong, been uncomfortable with it, but it's not the same, how it feels to us.
The same is true of beliefs in hell, etc.
You stepped out of it and also have gotten feedback from others, and have realized that it's ugly belief for you to adopt.
It isn't necessarily that way for others, they don't perceive as you do.
Stepping out of one perception into another is very difficult.
But I think it's ok to dislike beliefs for ourselves, but we shouldn't measure beliefs as if they apply universally in perception of humans.
