RE: If people were 100% rational, would the world be better?
August 12, 2021 at 11:57 am
(This post was last modified: August 12, 2021 at 12:32 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Life can't be both absurd and meaningless. Absurd has a meaning. If life is absurd, life has meaning, even if we don't particularly enjoy it's meaning. Though, I think that we're taking liberties with the phrase "life is absurd" as a declarative statement in totality. What part of it? The living part, the life, or some of lifes contents. All?
Consider this. If there were no truth and goodness in life or it's contents, it may still have meaning - just not those two things. If this were a soul forge run by a magical creator, it would have no truth or goodness, and yet it would still have god-value.
I'll give you a demonstration. In magi-god soul forge world, it's not actually true that the sun does or must rise in the east. Magi-god may, to run it's forge, stop the sun in place, make it fail to rise at all, or indeed rise the sun in the west. Every single one of these things is found in soul forging magi-god stories.
The statement "the sun rises in the east" is declaratively false. The true statement being "the sun does whatever magi-god says".
Consider this. If there were no truth and goodness in life or it's contents, it may still have meaning - just not those two things. If this were a soul forge run by a magical creator, it would have no truth or goodness, and yet it would still have god-value.
I'll give you a demonstration. In magi-god soul forge world, it's not actually true that the sun does or must rise in the east. Magi-god may, to run it's forge, stop the sun in place, make it fail to rise at all, or indeed rise the sun in the west. Every single one of these things is found in soul forging magi-god stories.
The statement "the sun rises in the east" is declaratively false. The true statement being "the sun does whatever magi-god says".
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