Is THIS the best of all POSSIBLE worlds?

by Terry 32 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • Terry
    Terry
    did you just finish taking philosophy 101 or something?

    No, but about age 40 (23 years ago!) I read my first philosophy book: Mortimer J. Adler's TEN PHILISOPHICAL MISTAKES.

    It really jolted me awake! Philosophy wasn't a bunch of old, dead guys wearing white sheets pontificating! It was really about

    how to use your mind to discover how you know what you think you know.

    I never looked back from that point.

    Philosophy is really two camps: Plato and Aristotle. All throughout history no matter who came along later; thinkers were either mystical (Plato) or rational (Aristotle).

    How we think is either the result of our imagination, wishful-thinking, superstition and bias (Plato) or it is rational, logical, dat driven and reasonable (Aristotle.)

    Why do you ask?

  • torn in two son
    torn in two son

    "This would be the best of all possible worlds if there were no religion in it." - John Adams

  • tia.dalma
    tia.dalma

    I'm talking about an OPTION to screw it up....why allow that OPTION in?

    That option is called FREE WILL.

    Unless you want to be a robot, of course.

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