From: ian glendinning (psybertron@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Feb 24 2005 - 19:28:55 GMT
Ant, and Marsha,
(SOM Philosophy = Enlightenment philosophy - I like that summary.)
Anyway - the problem here is a false dichotomy surely ?
Why worry about the binary oposition of Nihilism and Ultimate Purpose ?
Ant McWatt notes:
Well, this is where the MOQ should help for while it
agrees with nihilism that there is no static purposes or ends in the
universe, it recognises that there is a Dynamic one. An ongoing creative
dance that – on the whole - is becoming ever more sophisticated and
wondrous ... I often did without TV for many months and after a
couple of weeks didn't miss it. The Student Union Bar was usually a far
more Dynamic experience! :-)
I say,
I completely identify with that view, but why dynamic "purpose" - why
not just dynamic "fact of life" ? People need purposes, but why does
the world have to have one ?
Incidentally ... I've spent the last few days in a hotel room, and
haven't switched the TV on once. I did spend a night in a local
live-music bar full mainly of Goths (those worshippers of Nihil, it
might be said) and came away envigorated with the dynamism. Can't beat
it.
Regards,
Ian
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