Hi
DAPUNISHER, thanks for the reply
<< So I must respectfully disagree with your objection >>
then
<< Another good observation >>
Just attempting to affirm that both were observations, not objections
Your correct in pointing out that it is indeedmy logic that makes your query seem illogical, and after you provided a decidedly more comprehensive explaination of your rationale for such a query, I concur that fromyour philosophical veiwpoint which is as valid as mine or anyone else's, your query isn't illogical.
Ok, from a first blush, it seems that what you're trying to talk about here is a sort of equality between worldviews. I disagree. Worldviews that are maladaptive are inferior. This is not a darwinist position but it does have ties to evolutionary theory. I do tend to not judge, but if I see something as not working, then I call it as so. Maladaptation is typically measured by the ability to withstand stressors. The more flexible a sysytem, the more adaptive it is.
<< I appreciate the comments here but I don't think they are really accurate. At least they don't seem that way to me. >>
Precisely, it is merely a matter of difference in philosophies which do not agree on certain principles, and one does not invalidate the other, nor does an adherence to one make it more correct for anyone other than you or myself, agreed?
No, I think I disagree with this. The selection of arbitrary principles in the formulation of worldviews are that: arbitrary, however I'm not going to wave everything off as individual differences. There is a real core shared by humans that makes us human. That core is absolute. That core, from many sources of knowledge, is not a philosophy. I try to put it into words but a negative tests has seemed to work much better. That is, it, or a lack of it, or a disturbance in it, reveals itself in situations like these. I don't think this subjectivity works philosophically, practically, or experientially. If you mean the state one is in when one has nothing to afform, then yes it can work that way but this is not in the same sort of realm as validation or invalidation. Worldviews usually are expressed and when statements or beleifs contradict, they are contradictory. Not saying there's no way out of this, just saying what you seem to have responded with doesn't exactly work, from a matter of logical systems. Logic is universal, inferences work because they are shared. The arbitrary selection of basic metaphysical assumptions can nver be proven true or false, yes... So I don't know. Subjectivism is true in that sense, and if that's what you mean, I agree. Otherwise, please explain. I think my objection (not disagreement since words are couched in logic) has some weight here...
<< I do go out of my way, not really to pick, but to first understand, reflect, and attempt to discover by sharing. >>
That was the reason for my query to you as well.
<< I feel frustration being demonstrated here, by more than one person. I can be wrong since information is limited but I don't currently think so >>
This is the only other observation you've made that seems presumptuous from my perspective.
It is, I made a leap. I do not have the full picture. Do I have warrant in making this claim? Experiential warrant, yes. Is my assumption unjustified? Not really, I can back it up if you like. Is it a broad generalization? Eh... kinda. It's based on correlations from experiements so there is room for error. Perhaps I should have used the words "expression of emotion based on inability to directly control"? She said she doesn't want violence. Neither do I. But for some reason, I don't post a thread like this. I want to know why she does. I know why I don't... So maybe you are right, but I currently have not been shown this. It also seems presumptuous from my perspective, but I still make it because I need to communicate and experience, and I don't have a perfect medium for that so I use what is avaialble (my mind with thought/reason, language, and feeling)
It suggests to me that your relying upon your empathic sense(feel) while attempting to intellectualize that sense(think) which ,from my perspective, is presumptuous in the context defined as-impertinently forward or confident.
I agree with part of this. It's me coming in here thinking I know what I'm talking about. That's true. Did I use empathy? Yes. Did I intellectualize it? Maybe, but that's not how it seems to me. I still feel. And I think and use the knowledge I have to come up with the best available objective analysis. Do I stop feeling after that? No. That provides the motivation. But then I do stop thinking since I have no new input. Then the emotions inside myself are reflected upon, not justified or rationalized, just explored. So I don't know. Maybe what you say is true and is just another way of saying what I said. It just doesn't seem that way to me. Do I know what I'm talking about? Sometimes I think I do. Much of the time I don't. I do use past data to make judgments, but these are not really value judgments but judgments of fact. Am I confident? Eh... Empathy and intellect are separate in a time like this and you read my posts in the order I experience them. I query to discover data and feel. Then when I arrive at a dead end with words and reason, I stop using that and feel. Words and language may express something that is not really there. Like me. Feeling is there but is not really in words. You see what my problem is in agreeing with what you just said? It doesn't resound with me as being accurate, though I may be in error here.
As I've stated this is my perspective and by no means do I expect that yours will coincide with mine and is stated solely in the spirit of interchanging ideas/philosophies
I see then. I do not want to make this all nice and say we just exchange views, because good and evil are real. Things are bad and good. Or if you prefer, maladaptive and beneficial to survival. They have very close parallels. So I do disagree with your subjectivist approach (if I have intepreted your position correctly).
NateSLC and
Jero.

. You guys crack me up. HeHeHeHe.
Cheers !
