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To: kosta50; Alamo-Girl; metmom; allmendream; xzins; Quix; shibumi; stfassisi; Fichori; valkyry1
Anything [from] an illusion, to a delusion, from a neurosis to a psychosis.

With this statement, it seems to me you deny on principle any value to human experience, especially as articulated in language, on grounds that human experience is always to be doubted as a source of knowledge, distrusted because it's "too personal," and thus cannot indicate a more general, let alone a universal rule.

If that is what you actually believe, dear kosta, I hardly know what to say to you in reply.

But I'll take a stab with this observation: You have to completely invert reality to accommodate such a conclusion.

Consider that statement for openers. Then maybe we'll see where it goes from there.

128 posted on 03/24/2010 10:00:46 PM PDT by betty boop (Moral law is not rooted in factual laws of nature; they only tell us what happens, not what ought to)
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To: betty boop

Dear betty, just saw your comment above in the “latest posts” list.

If human experience has no value, then nothing has any value, becuase there is nothing in objective reality that has any meaning apart from how humans can experience said reality; of course there is also the fact that God experiences objective reality; but we cannot know how He experiences reality other than by our own human experience; from our vantage point.

So to say that human experience has no value, is to say that nothing has any value at all, including that opinion that no human experience has any value! So it is a self-defeating piece of nothing.

As though reality only has value if completely apart from, and unknowable by, any human. Wow.


130 posted on 03/24/2010 10:10:16 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Asato Ma Sad Gamaya Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya)
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To: betty boop; Alamo-Girl; metmom; allmendream; xzins; Quix; shibumi; stfassisi; Fichori; valkyry1
With this statement, it seems to me you deny on principle any value to human experience

Nope, just stating that it is not reliable.

131 posted on 03/24/2010 10:10:43 PM PDT by kosta50 (The world is the way it is even if YOU don't understand it)
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