Words are easy. About the easiest.
Meaning the ideals are meaningless unless lived. And they ain't here.
The Meaning of It All: Ultimate Meaning, Everyday Meaning, Cosmic Meaning, Death, and Time
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Words are easy. About the easiest.
Meaning the ideals are meaningless unless lived. And they ain't here.
Nietzsche never said that.
But you do not like Nietzsche because he was not a Christian. And he understood the religion, his father was a minister.
5,000 years of human history has been an incremental and uneven arc towards more liberty, agency, autonomy, equality, and freedom.
The fact that you would never, ever, under any circumstances trade your position in time and location right now, for a position earlier in human history is all the proof you need that these values have been meaningful to humans for millennia.
Valentino
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Karma and reincarnation must exist. Why are some born into luxury and others into hell on earth?
Well, I never foung reincarnation believable.
And I do not think karma is based on reincarnation.
Valentino
The Man - The Myth
Then you obviously have no understanding of it or how it functions.
Explain it.
Has it really? I mean America bombed a girl's school killing all the little kids in it. We did that just 6 months ago. There's an ongoing slowly unfolding genocide happening in Gaza, there's people who believe that their conception of God gives them the right to kill thousands with a jet. Vast swaths of people still live in poverty across the globe and the rich are doing JACK SHIT about it.
The current administration is hiding vicious human traffickers from justice. Income inequality in the USA is worse than it was during the Gilded Age.
What are we working toward again?
Valentino
The Man - The Myth
**Karma** acts as the moral law of cause and effect that determines the conditions of **reincarnation**, creating a continuous cycle of birth, death, and rebirth known as **samsara**. In Hinduism and Buddhism, the soul’s actions in one life generate karmic impressions that dictate the nature of its next incarnation; virtuous deeds lead to favorable rebirths (such as higher human or divine forms), while negative actions result in less fortunate existences.
Briefly explain the relation between Karma and Reincarnation
Karma acts as the moral law of cause and effect that determines the conditions of reincarnation, creating a continuous cycle of birth, death, and rebirth known as samsara. In Hinduism and Buddhism, the soul’s actions in one life generate karmic impressions that dictate the nature of its next...
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What is this "meaning" of which you speak?????
I have no interest in reincarnation. It has no empirical basis. People can believe it if they want. I think it is bad philosophy.**Karma** acts as the moral law of cause and effect that determines the conditions of **reincarnation**, creating a continuous cycle of birth, death, and rebirth known as **samsara**. In Hinduism and Buddhism, the soul’s actions in one life generate karmic impressions that dictate the nature of its next incarnation; virtuous deeds lead to favorable rebirths (such as higher human or divine forms), while negative actions result in less fortunate existences.
The ultimate spiritual goal is to achieve **moksha** (liberation) or **nirvana**, which breaks this cycle by resolving all accumulated karma. This is typically attained through selfless action, spiritual realization, and living in accordance with divine laws, allowing the soul to transcend the need for further physical rebirth.Briefly explain the relation between Karma and Reincarnation
Karma acts as the moral law of cause and effect that determines the conditions of reincarnation, creating a continuous cycle of birth, death, and rebirth known as samsara. In Hinduism and Buddhism, the soul’s actions in one life generate karmic impressions that dictate the nature of its next...
It also presupposes that there's a "something" about one that continues to exist after death. "Thoughts without brains attached". That doesn't seem likely.
I think anyone who says the solution to ultimate meaning is to pursue the ubermensch is not speaking to most of humanity.
That word just means a hero. He was referring to ancient Greek culture.
I specifically and intentionally stated that the arc of progress was uneven.
You still would never, ever, under any circumstances trade your position in time and place to go live in the Middle Ages.
Why?
Because you know full well that we are at least closer to the aspirational values of personal agency, autonomy, liberty, equality, inherent human dignity than we were hundreds of years ago.
At least not Christian Europe.
Valentino
The Man - The Myth
Like philosophy, all speculation.
Philosophy is not speculation, no.
Virtually no philosopher today thinks you can die and come back to life.