RE: What Do You Know Today That You Didn't Know Yesterday?
July 15, 2020 at 5:44 pm
(This post was last modified: July 15, 2020 at 5:45 pm by Porcupine.)
Today I learned that semantics is important because my pantheism/deism seems to be collapsing under language. Maybe Wittgenstein was right?
I mean, to be fair, I already knew that semantics was very important and I hate it when people say "that's just semantics" ...... but semantics may be even more important than I realized.
I am still a utilitarian but I am not so sure about my theism anymore. I'm currently doubting myself a lot. And I'm trying to see how this affects my ethics because before I was just saying that everything is good but now that is starting to feel nihilistic.
(When I say "theism" I am using it in the very very broad sense of simply non-atheism so it includes both pantheism and deism).
I mean, to be fair, I already knew that semantics was very important and I hate it when people say "that's just semantics" ...... but semantics may be even more important than I realized.
I am still a utilitarian but I am not so sure about my theism anymore. I'm currently doubting myself a lot. And I'm trying to see how this affects my ethics because before I was just saying that everything is good but now that is starting to feel nihilistic.
(When I say "theism" I am using it in the very very broad sense of simply non-atheism so it includes both pantheism and deism).
"Zen … does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes." - Alan Watts