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Anthropomorphizing
#21
RE: Anthropomorphizing
(June 9, 2025 at 6:19 pm)SubtleVirtue Wrote: the reason I don't give all my worship to nature is because... to include evil in reality implicates that nature is evil at least to some degree
Well, natural evil exists.  You seem like the kind of person who would agree that moral evil exists, too?  Anything contended to be metaphysically ultimate would include everything that exists, whether we worship it or not.  I don't either, mind - I think I'm just not the worshipful kind.

Quote:I worship beauty and morality instead
 
I am hoping that by worshiping those it helps move reality to 'that reality'

More an aspirational goal than existential reality, eh?
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#22
RE: Anthropomorphizing
(June 9, 2025 at 10:46 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:
(June 9, 2025 at 6:19 pm)SubtleVirtue Wrote: the reason I don't give all my worship to nature is because... to include evil in reality implicates that nature is evil at least to some degree

I worship beauty and morality instead


I am hoping that by worshiping those it helps move reality to 'that reality'

Who cares what you worship? Nature doesn't. I don't, either. Morality and aesthetics are both entirely subjective.

morality or ETHICS is certainly a science now, since Spinoza's Ethics.

beauty is more confusing for me... some say phi ratio is the root of beauty
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#23
RE: Anthropomorphizing
(June 9, 2025 at 10:46 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote:
(June 9, 2025 at 6:19 pm)SubtleVirtue Wrote: the reason I don't give all my worship to nature is because... to include evil in reality implicates that nature is evil at least to some degree
Well, natural evil exists.  You seem like the kind of person who would agree that moral evil exists, too?  Anything contended to be metaphysically ultimate would include everything that exists, whether we worship it or not.  I don't either, mind - I think I'm just not the worshipful kind.

Quote:I worship beauty and morality instead
 
I am hoping that by worshiping those it helps move reality to 'that reality'

More an aspirational goal than existential reality, eh?

I think we are designed to help direct what reality becomes.
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