On 22 Aug, 06:32, BB47 <[email protected]> wrote:
> Relativism is something I don’t understand. I hear it often in
> here. The way I understand it is that cultural relativism and moral
> relativism or “any” kind of relativism poses things as “true” only in
> a certain context. I know this is back to philosophy 101 for you
> folks but I am asking you to help me understand this relative thing,
> because I just don’t get it.
>
> When I hear “well you know they do it this way in India” I think
> to myself, yeah, well the Inca threw children into volcanoes, does
> that make it RIGHT? I am not concerned with how they do it in Mumbai
> unless it remains true in some bar in Minneapolis at closing time.
>
> Moral and cultural relativism comes right out and tells you to your
> face “there is no objective truth”
> Well I an stunned! If I am going to spend my life “searching” for
> something, well damitol , I want it to be the TRUTH! The ABSOLUTE
> truth. Why on earth would anybody want to settle for less? “You
> picked door number 4...BB! While we are saying it’s sort of true, it
> is only valid in Ethiopia, and only under starry lit skies on certain
> holidays past 7pm, but thanks for playing…..what do we have for him
> Johnny?”
>
> I want to know what is RIGHT AND WRONG…..period. I want to know
> WHAT TO DO people! Not the version that changes with a warmer
> climate. I want to know the truth. The truth means that it can’t be
> wrong under any circumstances. What value is truth if it can skip off
> on you like a thrown pebble in a lake?
>
> I realize that "absolute" truth is….well…close…. to impossible.
> Really close. Like detecting gravity waves close. It may not….(I
> don’t even want to SAY it)…..it may not…even…..exist. WELL THAT
> SUCKS AS FAR AS I AM CONCERED! How can someone live with something
> like that? How do you sleep at night? Accepting a pseudo-truth?
> That is like lying to yourself. That is like when you look in the
> mirror with that angle of your face that you use? With that expression
> that makes you “look pretty good?” That is what relativism is to me.
> That is the best example I have for how I see relativism.
>
> I want the brutal truth. I always considered that the best kind,
> the only kind.
>
> I want the un-cut unedited raw pure clear clean stabbing lightning
> burn searing blow through your body supernova
> hi-def symphony 18 year old girl in a bikini jump off the punk rock
> stage arms outstretched swan dive into knowing feeling stroking
> embracing licking the first bite of ice cream kiss the light warm
> penetrating perfect swing blast pop your head light switch labyrinth
> laid open streaming disc drive access paralyzing surge of calm though
> the voltage of the pads when they yell “CLEAR”
>
> I am not going to get that am I
The simple, absolute truth is: Energy Exists. All that you see/sense/
perceive is but a commentary on that. ;-)
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