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Veritas

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Good?
#5586634 - 05/03/06 04:50 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Is it possible to objectively define what is "good," as in the opposite of evil?
It seems to me that, when defining good, we will always be influenced by the subjectivity of our context (American, 21st century, male/female, lower/middle/upper class, religious/agnostic/atheist, family beliefs, etc...), just as we are in defining what we mean by "evil."
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Re: Good? [Re: Veritas]
#5586636 - 05/03/06 04:51 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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That's good.
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Re: Good? [Re: Veritas]
#5586674 - 05/03/06 04:59 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Objectively, what is "good" is subjective.
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Re: Good? [Re: Veritas]
#5586697 - 05/03/06 05:04 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Yeah, "good" is just as subjective and relative as "bad".
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Re: Good? [Re: dblaney]
#5586736 - 05/03/06 05:11 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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well ive seen many people here claim that delusion/ignorance is never good. if that is so then it would follow that good could be defined as knowledge or truth. i personally like to think of good as love and truth.
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Re: Good? [Re: Deviate]
#5586750 - 05/03/06 05:16 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Love, devotion and surrender.
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Veritas

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Love of what (or whom)?, devotion to what (or whom)?, surrender to what (or whom)?
The power of subjectivity:
Many stalkers claim that they are deeply in love with the focus of their obsession.
Hitler was devoted to eliminating threats to the genetic superiority of the Aryan race.
Surrendering your power to others results in an unhealthy relationship.
You'll have to be more specific.
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Re: Good? [Re: Deviate]
#5586785 - 05/03/06 05:23 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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well ive seen many people here claim that delusion/ignorance is never good.
It's not good to them because they are seeking the goal of knowledge, thus ignorance is very bad. But for someone who has no interest in knowledge, ignorance certainly isn't a bad thing. In and of itself, delusion/ignorance is just delusion/igorance. Good and bad are terms that humans assign to things; they are subjective.
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Re: Good? [Re: Veritas]
#5586794 - 05/03/06 05:26 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Breyer's chocolate ice cream with fresh sliced strawberries is 'good'.
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Veritas

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No, it is delicious. Ice cream is amoral.
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Re: Good? [Re: dblaney]
#5586805 - 05/03/06 05:29 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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dblaney said: well ive seen many people here claim that delusion/ignorance is never good.
It's not good to them because they are seeking the goal of knowledge, thus ignorance is very bad. But for someone who has no interest in knowledge, ignorance certainly isn't a bad thing. In and of itself, delusion/ignorance is just delusion/igorance. Good and bad are terms that humans assign to things; they are subjective.
ignorance is still bad for someone who isnt seeking knowledge because it could lead to make decisions which were not conductive to something else that they were seeking. but i'm not sure i dissagree with you, id like to see one of the many users here who has claimed delusion is always bad to try to argue this since i dont really understand their position.
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Re: Good? [Re: Deviate]
#5586908 - 05/03/06 05:54 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Deviate said: well ive seen many people here claim that delusion/ignorance is never good.
I personally claim that delusion and ignorance are never beneficial to an individual and their successful navigation of reality. "Good" is an extremely relative term that I would not apply in regards to the situation, if at all. 
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if that is so then it would follow that good could be defined as knowledge or truth.
A definition of what something is not does not necessitate that the opposite of what it is not is the definition of what it is, if you follow me. 
If one were to state that ignorance is never good, then it does not follow that knowledge is good. 
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Re: Good? [Re: Deviate]
#5586994 - 05/03/06 06:09 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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ignorance is still bad for someone who isnt seeking knowledge because it could lead to make decisions which were not conductive to something else that they were seeking.
Right, but their seeking is still in search of a goal. When you desire to reach a goal, it is very easy to classify things as "good" or bad" depending on whether or not it will help you achieve that goal. In and of itself however, something is neither "good" nor "bad".
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Re: Good? [Re: dblaney]
#5587064 - 05/03/06 06:21 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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dblaney said: Right, but their seeking is still in search of a goal. When you desire to reach a goal, it is very easy to classify things as "good" or bad" depending on whether or not it will help you achieve that goal. In and of itself however, something is neither "good" nor "bad".
"Good" and "bad" are not well-equipped concepts to be utilized in one's relationship with goals and their process. Terms such as "effective" and "obstructive" have more ability to serve the purpose of interpreting an event or aspect of reality in terms of one's goals.
"Good" and "bad" are simple. Vauge. Ineffective in representing value and meaning.
Throw them out the fucking window. ....sorry, Skorp, I can't bring myself to utilize "defenestrate" .
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well of course good and bad are entirely subjective in the sense that any particular event can be interpretated as good or bad or neither by any individual.
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Re: Good? [Re: Deviate]
#5587177 - 05/03/06 06:42 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Deviate said: well of course good and bad are entirely subjective in the sense that any particular event can be interpretated as good or bad or neither by any individual.
Which statement of mine is this in response to?
I wasn't discussing good and bad and their subjectiveness, but rather the logic that you used to come to the if/then statement that you did. 
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no, no, your logic is correct. i was wrong in implying it logically followed, i meant that reply to be to dblaney. i often forget to use to the correct reply function. i should have said that those who believe delusion is never beneficial tend to also believe that truth is always beneficial.
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Re: Good? [Re: Deviate]
#5587274 - 05/03/06 07:05 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Re: Good? [Re: Veritas]
#5587459 - 05/03/06 07:50 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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To serve and never be tired is love. To learn and never be filled is devotion. To offer and never to end is surrender.
Love is man's reality. Devotion is man's divinity. Surrender is man's immortality.
Reality is all-pervading. Divinity is all-elevating. Immortality is all-fulfilling.
-Sri Chinmoy
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Edited by LunarEclipse (05/03/06 07:53 PM)
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Surrender is man's immortality.
For some reason I like this.^^^^
That used to be one of my favorite works from Santana. Unfortunately I no longer have it.
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