Soren wrote on Nov 1
st, 2008 at 8:57pm:
I do not mean to pick on you - you are not allone to speak like this - but why should ANYONE pay any attention to a person who does not even have a tiny fraction of the question, let alone a tentavie gesture towards the way. Why listen to any one person when apparently everyone is saying the same thing?
Then don't listen. I have dared to put my own perspective in words. By putting it in words, I do exactly what you say - It's the general principle of Reductio ad Absurdum. To verbalise concepts of our purpose in the universe is immediately invoking a false premise, and as soon as we invoke a false premise, all propositions become possible. When we think that have successfully defined something in words, it has already slipped out of our reach. It has crawled away while we were defining it and it's already somewhere totally different, laughing at our efforts to define it.
All I'm saying is that we all have a tiny fraction of the questions, regardless of the fact that some people claim to have a conduit to all the answers through their personal window on life.
Maybe we'll get closer to the truth if we all accept that when it comes to life, we all have useful and possibly unique perspectives.
I regard religions and philosophies as collected wisdom through the ages. Each one has a different perspective, or a different window on the universe.
If we are so arrogant as to think that our own unique perspective can be the only one that's right then we stand to lose as a result.
My sacred cows are knowledge and humility. What are yours?