--- In [email protected], new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > It doesn't have to have any reference to > > enlightenment, nor is adopting it as an assumption > > even necessarily pathological. It doesn't have to > > change anything about how you interact with the > > world; it just changes your understanding of the > > meaning of "interact with the world." > > If there is a world. And a "you" / me. > > Maybe its all smoke and mirrors -- and we bought into it, and are now > to vested in the delusion to give it up.
Absolute skepticism has zero intellectual appeal for me. There is a lot of leeway in how we perceive our world, but I don't see the value in speculating that we aren't living in an objective physical world through the prisms of our individual intelligence and attempting to achieve some consensus. I also realize that theoretical physics type brainiacs need to think at this level of abstraction. My intellectual issues are very far down the ladder from this type of speculation. >
