the place for blind faith

Walking around Ica i came to realize that we despise religions mostly for their blind faith, but that, at the same time, it’s neither possible or desirable to get rid of blind faith. Again: not desirable.

It’s just too easy to find gruesome examples of blind faith, but there is also another dimension to it. We need blind faith — or something like it — to make us strong and beautiful. It’s a matter of pedagogy, and of politics.

invented or discovered

I just made friends with a mathematician, and apparently it is big right now whether mathematics was invented or discovered. Posed like that, i must answer this question with the first option, definitely, but i think the question implies a connection between externality and validity of knowledge, and this connection itself must be questioned.

just what you feel

I said to Raiders that i just do not propose the creation of something better than the juridical system because any system like that would take many years to be stabilized, many more than i wish to live. He was somewhat startled that i would care only for what i could feel, but not only i do, i also do it as a matter of principle and think you should too.

The reason for that is: whatever it might be that moves us, that makes us wake up every morning in spite of the boredom of life, we do not know whether this force is caring or selfish. That is, maybe we are selfish and we can’t know for sure — though please notice that this goes both ways.

And besides, in this world, much more evil has been practised by the ones who believed themselves good than by any other kind of people.

So you should care only about what you feel, because then we avoid this tendency that morality has of bringing calamity about.

risks of awareness

If you know you are going to die, and that will happen rather sooner than later, and that no matter how much you fight and strive, your impact in the world will never be too much shit, then things do not matter too much, do they? Being aware of it all is maybe a bit dangerous.

But ignorance is not bliss. Even blissful ignorants are not blissful because of their ignorance, they are blissful out of luck, and might become miserable out of bad luck in the future.