Short Take: On "Universal Truth"
“You pagans reject universal truth, you only believe in particularist conditional morality and truth.”
Ok, Name a single universal truth.
Gravity doesn’t hold beyond the limits of mass wells, time breaks down arround blackholes, physics don’t hold at the extreme closeness to the Big Bang.
There is not a single identifiable universal truth. Philosophers have searched for the fount of all knowledge, the unconditional axiom which cannot be doubted or is not probabilistic or dependent on other assumptions... And the closest they ever found was Decartes Cogito “I think there for I am” the sentiments of an individual man in history WHO DIED, and is no longer thinking, and is no more.
To the extent it was true of Descartes himself it was a very particular and conditional truth to his time which he was solely? uniquely? in a position to judge for himself at that moment, to the extent he existed.
This is a matter of most basic metaphysics, and it could be argued as an outside probability that even this most funamental undeniable truth, was not even true in its core example, if one wanted to argue a conspiracy Descartes did not exist or was a pen-name of another philosopher, or that in his example Descartes himself was not saying it but rather his hypothetical decieved philosopher. “I think therefore I am” said the ficitional character. Even this requires prior assumptions and support from less grounded worldviews.
This for a matter of basic metaphysics that was supposed to assume away questions of matter and physics because Descartes worried he might be decieved...
then you get to questions of morality and it is plain no universal truth applies, given no axiom is even posited to universally bind both the Christian Saint and the Female Praying Mantis eating the head of her lover.
All truth, morality, culture, etc. Is fundamentally relational to one’s own judgement, will, values and closeness to others...
“I think therefore I am” is not an argument that can be used to pursuade another of the existence of your concienciousness... A fictional Character or AI can repeat the words just as easily. A P-Zombie or uncomprehending brain-damage patient can mouth the words.
It can only have value in one’s relation to oneself, as a matter of one’s own judgement, will, courage and confidence.
Any God or truth one can actually experience is a relation of one’s own head, their subconcious deep nature (genetic, ancestral, or otherwise), their values, and will.
If you are not at the center of your own universe then you are nowhere and nothing is anywhere. Everything you experience is particular to you. Why should your Gods be elsewise?
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oh right… because we all care to see what some tart thinks about the Devine….
What are you? some sort of cosmic wisdom authority?
for fucks sake.
"Regarding God, I think we must dispense with the idea of a personal world-spirit, a creator with thoughts and emotions and desires that could be comprehensible to humans. TON 618 is a black hole that appears to have a mass approximately 66 billion times that of the sun. There are quasars we have observed with temperatures of over 18 trillion degrees Fahrenheit. Pulsar PSR J1748−2446ad is about 30 kilometers in diameter, but due to its incredible mass and energy it rotates 716 times per second, meaning that its surface is moving at 24% of the speed of light. The galaxy Porphyrion contains cosmic jets (super-energized, violent discharges of gas and subatomic particles) which are over 23 million years long. That means that the origin of the jets (a supermassive black hole digesting objects and flinging mass and energy outwards from its accretion disc) is so awesomely powerful that it is launching matter and energy a distance which is around 1,500,000,000,000 times the average distance between the Earth and the sun. So, if there is a being who created and oversees and controls all of this, such a being cannot be comprehensible to us. We might behave as if He (it) is, but He/it simply cannot be."
https://jmpolemic.substack.com/p/ad-astra