stoney wrote in message <3791ffb7.10401405 at news.meganews.com>...
while i share your lament over the way folks attempt to 'dictate' what's
'correct' to one another, even to the point of giving way to mass murder, in
the main, i disagree with you.
>[shrug] I have no interest in 'converting' someone else. My path is my
way
>while someone else's may be in a different direction. My point was only
that I
>do not have to justify my lack of belief in god constructs, just as I don't
have
>to justify my lack of belief in a myraid of other fictional entitiies.
the difficulty inherent is that, to the degree that one diverges from Truth,
one's experience becomes increasingly problematic. and when one's experience
is problematic, one becomes an increasing 'weight' with respect to the
beings of others with whom one interacts.
typically, folks 'just' dispense with this point by asking, "What is truth?"
it's been the fashion, even in Mathematics and Science, for folks to say,
"truth is unknowable", but that's nothing more than a matter of
information-processing convenience that's literally calculated so as to
perpetuate that with respect to which one is merely-familiar... it's 'just'
prejudice.
>The
>poster I was replying to indicated that a persons lack of belief had to be
>'justified.' Tis sad that such a 'justification mindset' only appears with
>regard to the person's personal deity construct.
the difficulty inherent is that whether or not one 'justifies' one's view,
one's view does impinge upon those with whom one interacts.
the only way to make progress with respect to this difficulty is to seek,
and acknowledge, Truth.
contrary to what's been the 'fashionable' thing, Truth ain't difficult to
seek, find and acknowledge... it's all 'mapped' by the one-way flow of
energy from order to disorder that is what's described by 2nd Thermo
(wdb2t)... all one has to do is follow the 'map'.
for example, if one's behavior imposes never-ending increased thermodynamic
costs upon others, one's behavior is behavior that diverges from Truth, and
it's directionality is contradicted by Truth's one 'map'.
conversely, if one can demonstrate that one's behavior makes possible
decreased thermodynamic costs in the lives of others, one's behavior
converges upon Truth, and it's directionally alligned with Truth's one
'map'.
it's that easy.
but there's an imaginary barrier, born of ignorance with respect to the way
nervous systems process inforation, that 'stands in the way'...
understanding how nervous systems process information comes at a bit of an
increased thermodynamic cost. because it's so, folks haven't been able to
follow Truth's 'map' to the decreased thermodynamic costs which exist beyond
the relatively-short-term increased thermodynamic costs... and so, folks
'exist' within the 'crater of the volcano', enduring relatively-high,
interminable thermodynamic costs... being blocked, by ignorance, from
finding Truth.
ken [_[...] Versus the Volcano_]
