Real World Philospohy

[Jack Simth]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
first question - answer's from God are athorative. can't explain it any better than that.

A variation on "it just is" - one of the ways of identifing an underlying assumption. Don't get me wrong, the assumption is correct - but that can't be proven this side of Doomsday, so it remains an assumption for the duration.

Assumptions aren't inherently a bad thing. They are ultimately all any string of reasoning or logic has to rest on.

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
second. good doesn't want you to die wailing in dispair.

That just leaves another why: Why should dying while wailing in dispair be something to be avoided? Don't get me wrong, it is something to be avoided; but sooner or later (if the chain is not infinite) there that chain can be followed back to a "feelings" argument, a circular argument, a variation on "it just is", or an an out and out assumption. All of the four classifications of possible eventuals are assumptions, of one guise or another.

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
third. better is better. explains itself.

Another variation on "it just is". Don't get me wrong - you are correct that better is better; but why better should be sought? That's a different question. There are some philosophies out there - of the fate variety, usually - that don't advocate seeking better as there is exactly nothing you can actually do to influence events. Mind you, they are wrong, and you are right, but that can't be proven.

I'm in an odd mood today....