How can we even make the “right” decision…if we have no knowledge of the end result? Further…a decision has no real end unless it results in your death. So how can we ever know we are at the end of a decision…to judge if it was right or wrong?
perhaps some bad things happen to you as a result of trying to do the right thing…does that mean it was “wrong”?
Not only can we not judge right from wrong…we can niether really gain wisdom from our mistakes either.
Is there any way out of this paradox?
Is it a curse or a blessing?..short term says curse…but what is the long term result of this I cannot see yet?
Lack of awareness = ignorance = deficiency = deformity = unhealthy = death and suffering.
Awareness in all forms is all important in all ways to all life in all times in all worlds that I know of thus far, and yet persons are so destracted by their disunited-ego-fantasy-materialist-compulsive-conformist-mobilizationalisms.
Enter cause and effect. only with knowledge or experience or both, but it is all about manipulation. The key is predicting the effect of any cause.*
To implement this,one would have to start small,and calculate variables(for ignorance sake) and work their way up. It is a somewhat robotic method but i respect it.
*You claimed we do not learn,yet if we can learn the effects of any cause,we are slowly but surely on our way.
In conclusion i’d say cause and effect is for subjective ‘right’ decisions, but if you want infallible objective ‘right’ decisions,take a close look at what christ says in the gospels.
I’ll chime in and say there is no objective right or wrong, so the only right and wrong you’ll be dealing with is subjective. While it is impossible to tell the future, it is possible to hypothesize what the result of a decision will be, and then act upon it (the cause and effect as mentioned above).
For instance, if I want to lose weight, I’ll decide to work out. If the “right” decision, in your mind, would be to lose weight, then the decision to work out would certainly qualify as the right decision for your goal.
We can adopt a strategy. That’s what a strategy is. Operating principles directed toward a chosen end. If you don’t even know what those ends should be, at least in some rudimentarty form, you have not begun to philosophise, yet.
It’s not a paradox. It’s just a prephilosphical, and prelogocal state. Confusion. You’re not in the game yet. Don’t sweat that you don’t know the rules.
Every decision is dependant on the past.
The more aware we are of the past the more patterns we perceive to explain them.
These patterns can be used to predict the future.
Any failure can be explained as an inability to accurately perceive the patterns and how they interacted or in an absence of a complete or near-complete awareness.
The less aware you are of what actually happened the more surprised you will be because of what will happen.
you can’t be 100% sure u made the right decition, but you can attempt to, based on your past experiences and on your reasoning about the situation and all the variables.
If the core of me and my intensions are pure of heart. Then every thing that stems from that will be pure of heart. If I fail with ignorance and hurt someone, then my core intentions will work to undo my wrong, and fill the void with rightness.
When you make a decision, that’s you making it - there is no other you making another or no decision. The factors that make up your being at that point go into the decision. Who are you? Is the first question. You’ll have to decide that. That determines what subsequent decision you will make. And whether that is right or wrong? you are both the exectutioner and the judge of the act. The ball is in your court. What are your inclinations?
You can spell things wrong - but as long as there are no fixed rules you accept as absolutes, there is no wrong or right. if you’re in a religious society and have sworn allegiance to your priest, and this priest forbids you to eat pork and you go and eat pork that’s wrong. But who cares? Onlt the priests and the pork. They probably have some consepiracy worked out againt you.
“How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress” - Niels Bohr
My first act of free will will be to believe in free will." William James
It’s a choice.
Faust is right; in order to have right or wrong you must have a goal. And even when you have one it’s not clear until you either reach that goal or die - and then the crucial decisions have been either right or of no consequence too you or your goal, which has ceased to exist. Unless your intention was to die, but that’s wrong.
Yeah, Jake. That, of course, doesn’t guarantee the desired results. But it gives a basis for action. You never know, but that’s life. You can only try.
“Have I- still a goal? A haven towards which my sail is set?
A good wind? Ah, he only who knoweth whither he saileth, knoweth
what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.”
-Zarathustra
‘Rightness’ being synonymous for Jesusness here.
per capita, that means that it’s scientific, the word ‘right’ is equal to the words ‘Jesus’ and ‘Allah.’
Rightness, therefore, is Jesus-Allahness.
It would be convenient if all the righteous would apply themselves to that statistical principle. Otherwise, the word ‘right’ will have to be redefined as ‘global death’