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Einstein exposed. (media.scored.co)
posted 1 year ago by JesusTaughtLove 1 year ago by JesusTaughtLove +36 / -3
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– Merely_a_conduit 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

I think a one stop philosophy shop isn't realistic. I've been drawn to philosophy since I was a child the way I currently view the world is an amalgamation of the teachings of Jesus, Albert Camus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao Tzu, Sun Tzu, Miyamoto Musashi, Viktor Frankel, Voltaire, Kafka and a bunch more To subscribe to one thinkers view of the world is to surrender your own thinking to someone you believe was right, but they're all dead aren't they? That aren't in the here and now

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– SmithW1984 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

That's what Huxley called perennialism. This "wisdom of the ages" philosophy was also heavily promoted by the Royal Society, Tavistock, SRI and CIA (also through eastern influenced theosophy, new age and the hippy movement) as a new world religion of the future man.

The common critique of it would be that there's a limited set of moves one can make in metaphysics, epistemology and ethics (and all three branches of philosophy are interrelated). For example you either believe the world is purely physical and matter in flux or you believe in a metaphysical realm beside it. Or that everything is either ultimately one (monism), two (dualism) or many (polytheism and multiplicity). Here we have a third option which is the trinitarian doctrine of Christianity. It's an either/or binary and your position on it will lead to other consequences down the system. That's why people who choose the pick-and-choose preference based approach for their worldview often hold contradictory ideas. Consistency in the worldview is the lack of such contradictions.

Jesus is at odds with the worldviews of both Voltaire and Camus. Voltaire is obvious because he's very much an atheist and a poster boy for liberal progressivism and secular humanism. Camus, being an existentialist, holds that the life is meaningless, but in spite of that we must struggle to find our own made up meaning, which leads to embracing absurdism. Maybe there's a false image of Jesus reinterpreted as a zen hippy boyfriend type who's all about love and peace, man, but that's a recent invention and an apparent heresy to anyone familiar with Christian theology.

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– Merely_a_conduit 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

This "wisdom of the ages" philosophy was also heavily promoted by the Royal Society, Tavistock, SRI and CIA

I've come to my conclusions on my own, I am not easily influenced.

(and all three branches of philosophy are interrelated).

I disagree.

For example you either believe the world is purely physical and matter in flux or you believe in a metaphysical realm beside it. Or that everything is either ultimately one (monism), two (dualism) or many (polytheism and multiplicity). Here we have a third option which is the trinitarian doctrine of Christianity. It's an either/or binary and your position on it will lead to other consequences down the system.

You can fit yourself in whatever boxes you choose but when you put the rest of the world in those boxes you've lost the plot.

Honestly I don't care about your critique of philosophy, if it was valuable, if you valued it, you wouldn't be so quick to offer it.

Camus, being an existentialist, holds that the life is meaningless

Tell me you don't know what you're talking about without telling me you don't know what you're talking about. Meaningless 😂🤣

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." Albert Camus

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– SmithW1984 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

I don't offer anything and it's not valuable because it's mine but because it's true and I can make a strong case about it being the one and only true worldview in a debate. Other worldviews hold pieces of truth but they don't have the full picture. I'm not a gnostic pretending to have revealed some secret truth about the world that only I know of. I hold the Orthodox Christian worldview and adhere to the doctrines and the teachings of the Church of Christ which are available to everyone.

“The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.” ― Albert Camus

The meaning of life Camus makes a rather bold claim on the meaning of life: there isn’t one and we can’t make one either. He argues that it is impossible for us to find a satisfying answer to the question of the meaning of life, and any attempt to impose a meaning on the universe will end in disaster, as whatever meaning we pick will be sent up later. He further denies that science, philosophy, society, or religion could ever create a meaning of life that would be immune to the problem of absurdity.

https://bigthink.com/personal-growth/the-meaning-of-life-albert-camus-on-faith-suicide-and-absurdity/

Do I need to paste the ending of The myth of Sisyphus to make my point clearer?

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– Merely_a_conduit 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

I don't offer anything and it's not valuable because it's mine but because it's true and I can make a strong case about it being the one and only true worldview in a debate.

That's some serious delusion right there, it might be true to you but to believe it's true to everyone else is absolutely insane.

Camus was an absurdist, he said the only serious philosophical question was the question of suicide. To complete negate the rest of his work from a pessimistic point of view tells me more about you than him.

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life." Albert Camus

"Live to the point of tears." Albert Camus

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." Albert Camus

I don't care what big think says, I care about what someone comes to think on their own.

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