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the_q@piefed.social 2 months agoWhich is more logical: some supernatural, indefinable thing or cold finality?
You can’t prove either, but one is foundational to shared delusions that drives commerce, hatred and war while the other is just peace.
Pudutr0n@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fair enough. Logic is your deity. Not a bad one, either.
the_q@piefed.social 2 months ago
Explain how it’s a deity. I don’t worship it. It doesn’t give me purpose. It’s not a comfort.
Pudutr0n@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You pushed the inexplicable, the black box, into a system. Deities/the unknown forces come in all kinds of shapes and formats, not only judeochristian / abrahamic. Maybe it’s not a deity, but it’s where the magic we can’t explain happens. We need axioms for anything, dude. I’m not anti-science, I just think all belief and knowledge is necessarily based in things that cannot be proven… and that’s ok.
the_q@piefed.social 2 months ago
Fair enough.
crapwittyname@feddit.uk 2 months ago
We don’t need axioms for empiricism. That’s the entire point. We ask reality questions and infer limited and verifiable knowledge from the results, without ever stating that anything has been proven.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That sounds a lot like you consider it a comfort.
Nothing isn’t peace, it’s nothing.
the_q@piefed.social 2 months ago
Fair enough.