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Old 04-15-2015, 11:41 PM   #471 (permalink)
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what? What are the last questions?
No idea. You said "ultimate questions" and I couldn't make sense of it.
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Old 04-16-2015, 09:35 AM   #472 (permalink)
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No idea. You said "ultimate questions" and I couldn't make sense of it.
What the prime reality is
What is the external reality
What a human being is and where humans came from
What happens at death
Why it is possible to know anything at all
How humans know what is right and wrong
What the meaning of human history is

Eh, I take it back. The naturalist answers are stupid easy. You've probably got it all figured out.
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Old 04-16-2015, 09:41 AM   #473 (permalink)
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What the prime reality is
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What a human being is and where humans came from
What happens at death
Why it is possible to know anything at all
How humans know what is right and wrong
What the meaning of human history is

Eh, I take it back. The naturalist answers are stupid easy. You've probably got it all figured out.
Solipsism is the answer to most of that.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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Old 04-16-2015, 09:50 AM   #474 (permalink)
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Solipsism is a pretty uninformative answer, in my opinion.
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Old 04-16-2015, 09:57 AM   #475 (permalink)
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What the prime reality is
The one we live in.

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What is the external reality
The reality that isn't confined to people's heads.

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What a human being is and where humans came from
A kind of hairless ape. We come from our ancestors.

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Life ends.

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Why it is possible to know anything at all
Because brains.

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They're taught it.

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What the meaning of human history is
It doesn't have a specific meaning.

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Eh, I take it back. The naturalist answers are stupid easy. You've probably got it all figured out.
I definitely don't have it all figured out. There's just not much to these questions.
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Old 04-16-2015, 10:03 AM   #476 (permalink)
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Solipsism is a pretty uninformative answer, in my opinion.
I hate it when my delusions argue with me.
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There's just not much to these questions.
For (most) naturalists.

Ask an existential deist these questions and that's quite a different story.
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Old 04-16-2015, 10:21 AM   #478 (permalink)
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What the prime reality is
What is the external reality
What a human being is and where humans came from
What happens at death
Why it is possible to know anything at all
How humans know what is right and wrong
What the meaning of human history is

Eh, I take it back. The naturalist answers are stupid easy. You've probably got it all figured out.
I don't see why one can't form political views without knowing the answer to these. You just need some sort of moral code and then you're ready to start.
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Old 04-16-2015, 10:33 AM   #479 (permalink)
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For (most) naturalists.

Ask an existential deist these questions and that's quite a different story.
I just meant in the real world. Obviously in fantasy scenarios anything can happen.
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I don't see why one can't form political views without knowing the answer to these. You just need some sort of moral code and then you're ready to start.
Except that it's easy for somebody even vaguely knowledgeable about a political ideology to ask manipulative, simplistic, if/then moral questions meant to lead somebody less politically informed to whatever decision they want:

"Do you think people who can't afford food should starve?"

"Do you think it's right for the government to take money that you've worked for and give it to someone who hasn't?"


So no, I don't think "some sort of moral code" is good enough. Education, experience, and a sense of your own intellectual limits are just as necessary. Not that this has anything to do with existential deism.
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