Iambiguous,
Is it really important that God know everything? How would your life change, your behavior change, if you could find out, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that God was omniscient?
Is THIS the way that you see it also? One can seek answers to the hard problems while at the same time striving to find balance between the two.
I think that one could but I also intuit that that would depend on the individual him/her -self. Some find meaning and joy in asking these questions albeit they may at times be a struggle. We all have our holy grail that we go in search of.
I am not so sure. Perhaps it took root in something which happened within our life that we are still learning to come to grips with, have not as yet resolved.
Perhaps for some it comes from a human being who has both a moral and ethical heart and mind who cares about others and whoâs focus is âto do no harmâ, someone who sees and understands the inter-connectedness and the entanglement of us all. Perhaps it comes from someone who has an unquenchable thirst to seek and find the wisdom and truth of things.
I suppose that what is at the bottom of it is human evolution.
I am not so sure that these people who as you say sink down into themselves will necessarily find their answers within like that but I may be wrong. I think many of the answers are to be find without, while looking, listening, reflecting on everything which they see.
So, is this question about God being a puppeteer and we the puppets, that no matter what we chose, after much reflection and struggling, let us say after having chosen one intelligent and reasonable option out of five different ways we could have gone, our choice is not based on self-determination and freedom because we would have ultimately made that choice anyway?
Did you mean to say my (as in your) own motivation, etc.?
What is that thick fog - you standing in your own way?
This is true and I think partly because we do not always remember our past as it actually was. We like to fill in some gaps to suit our purpose or just to have no empty unresolved spaces.
True too but at the same time an intelligent, reflective and reasonable person will know how to maneuver his or her way through it - just as an expert at darts will be able to find that bulls-eye or at least come pretty close to it. It takes practice and discipline.
Well then, is that not why we have ILP? lol
This is true. If we see ourselves as being fixed in time in a manner of speaking in a wholly-determined universe, how could there possibly be any other way for us to see ourselves except as puppets who have no real choice or freedom - so then what does it matter how we live our life? âWhat all men ought to doâ then becomes kind of a moot issue, no?
It seems to me that that belief system paves the way for one to disallow any sense of responsibility toward himself and his fellow creatures unless one chooses to see his life choices as having meaning and real truth to them.
So just what is it that you are expecting consciousness to do if it is indeed some form of matter? What would it have to do with answering your question?
pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/physi ⌠of-matter/
That was an interesting read.
Dreams are part of a process. Your consciousness, for whatever reason you needed, had already been in the process of creating that letter for some time. It was just the right time for the mailman lol to deliver it.
You would probably have to answer this question yourself based on the content of the dream, which is really something that you yourself conjured up from a combination of your desires and needs and thoughts about your relationship with your wife and daughter and all of the materials used from your conscious waking life and the world around you which you see.
That being the case, what would the next step for the philosopher be? What would his next question be?
You kind of remind me of the character, Quentin Clark, in Matthew Pearlâs book, The Poe Shadow. You came to mind as I was reading it the other day. I intuitively felt that you and he had something in common.