10-10-2025, 03:12 PM
(10-10-2025, 02:08 PM)IdeomotorPrisoner Wrote: So we have self-determined meaning and purpose, and while this sounds like nihilism, it's just deism.
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Example if unclear:
Family A is a nice hard working family, with upright morals, and a live and let live spirit. Giving and friendly, always willing to help.
Family B are angry drunk criminals who steal checks and sell meth. They often pick fights with their neighbors.
Which Family has a better chance to avoid the hostility of the universe?
Deism doesn't negate existential nihilism.
I swear, the way people use nihilism as a pejorative it won't be long before it's listed as an indicator for terrorism!
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Family B was in the next town over resupplying there product when the earthquake, fire, tsunami, and tornado destroyed the town that family A lived in, wiping them out. But family B are all going to die in the end too. That's the hostility of the universe.
They've got this Florida character in custody who is accused of the Pacific Palisades fire. Family A and B probably lost everything in the fire.
There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people. - Commander William Adama
