tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32924329.post116194873481445968..comments2023-10-31T03:58:32.056-07:00Comments on Empathic Rationalist: Daniel Spirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09656412977046134771noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32924329.post-1162178932017131062006-10-29T19:28:00.000-08:002006-10-29T19:28:00.000-08:00FFH, With regard to the ultimate questions, the id...FFH, <BR/><BR/>With regard to the ultimate questions, the idea of an "answer" -- or a permanent solution -- seems almost absurd. You can analogize the search for wisdom on these issues to a never-ending voyage in which each day (corresponding to each attempt to philosophize seriously), the voyager must find a resting place for the night before embarking again in the morning. With the embarkment comes more uncertainty and restlessness.<BR/><BR/>At some level, I suspect that many of us merely choose among multiple somewhat-reasonable hypotheses, and select the one that seems to make our lives the most meaningful. The pie-in-the-sky (i.e., cosmic Santa Clause) hypothesis seems plausible to me, for example, but not plausible enough to make it worthy of my belief.Daniel Spirohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09656412977046134771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32924329.post-1162030847716564912006-10-28T03:20:00.000-07:002006-10-28T03:20:00.000-07:00Notice how I didn't put a period at the end of tha...Notice how I didn't put a period at the end of that last sentence? It wasn't intended, but it does seem to indicate that I'm not finished with this.Mary Loishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01515655542270431289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32924329.post-1162030786516372482006-10-28T03:19:00.000-07:002006-10-28T03:19:00.000-07:00Everywhere I go on the Internet (and I admit I don...Everywhere I go on the Internet (and I admit I don't go many places), I bump into men asking me "Why?" as if there was one answer and I might have it. Well, I might, but try as I do, I don't seem to find one that satisfies them. <BR/><BR/>I think it's a healthy sign that young people in college are asking the same questions we once asked, and that, no more than we were, they are not satisfied with traditional answers. This should lead them, rather than to give up, to keep seeking, to read, to meditate, to reach their own conclusions (which are never concluded, by the way). Unfortunately they are all too often told that they must stop asking. <BR/><BR/>I like your neat little foray into television and its superficial sweep of great matters, and even more I liked that it inspired you to put together this thought-provoking post. I'll think about it, but you can be sure I won't come up with the real answer to "Why?" any time soonMary Loishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01515655542270431289noreply@blogger.com