Posted: Sep 05, 2018 8:55 am
wisedupearly wrote:How do you save yourself from self-harming activities/decisions such opioid abuse, drinking, ennui etc?
Why should we assume a priori that anyone is subject to these activities? Yes, we certainly know after the fact that some people are, but it's probably too late to reach them with an all-powerful philosophy.
wisedupearly wrote:Society is now like the expressway on to which more and more drivers are throwing trash. How much trash can thrown before the expressway effectively becomes unusable?
Do you still have hope of progress, or Progress as it stands in humanistic religions? Are you anxious that society might break down completely? If not, then you're just judging the tastes of people whose tastes don't coincide with yours.
wisedupearly wrote:
As to religion, it is what people adopt in the absence of a truly effective philosophy.
True effectiveness is not established by naming the target only after you've loosed the projectile and it landed near something you are now nominating as the target. I mean, you have implied some objective, sure, but how is that the True Objective? If you learned religion as a child, and rejected it as a young adult, I can understand a reluctance to go on without a True Objective, but really.
If Socrates is a problem for you, and the alternative is just making shit up that sounds good to you, go back to the drawing board.