The Phenomenon of Man ... Wo-man

K: I haven’t heard of the 36 righteous ones before and being a research type of person, I looked
it up…I can’t go with it as is but it can be rewritten in another way…
what is needed is balance… in this world, finding bad or evil isn’t hard… just open
your eyes and all you see is evil hard at work and turn on the TV and you see large scale
evil hard at work… the story about the 36 righteous people (not necessarily men and
not necessarily Jewish either) is a reminder that evil must be balanced by good and
good must be balanced by evil… think of it as an equation where the two sides
must balance out 1+1 = 2… this is an equation and for the equation to be “true”
it must have balance… you have good = evil and that is an equation…
today in the US, you have an equation… left = right and that equation is
out of balance for society to work correctly you must have balance between the
two… you have freedom and security and you must have balance between the two…
that equation is also unbalanced… and you have the individual and society…
that too is an equation which is unbalanced…I submit that that the balance
that is needed within society has been shorted by the right in their fear driven
attempts at security…the right blames their fear on those who are different…
I wouldn’t be so afraid if “others” were just like me…it “others” would just prayed to
the same god and worshiped the same institutions and money itself… there would be
no need for fear… so thinks the right…the 36 righteous ones are a reminder
that in the face of evil, good still exists… but the good is not just a single
color like white but all kinds of colors and all kinds of shapes and all kinds
of dimensions and in all kinds of beliefs… good and evil is not about what
an object is, but how an object is used…even the idea of good and evil depends
on how good and evil is used…

Kropotkin

Until God calls you to do works, then it’s not so simple.

I don’t know what prompts you to complicate it. It’s always that simple. :confused:

What causes it is the same for everyone, the complacency to avoid filling in the dots between the simple and the complicated.

Complacency, also, is only another catchword covering other reasons.

I have to hear about simple works. I’m up for swapping. :mrgreen:

It’s not complacency for me, it’s an abject fear of too much responsibility.

But what if, one is forced, trapped within a responsibility one can not avoid? (With no exit in sight)

This is why I consider Nihilism spurious, it has not gone beyond it, except in terms of dropping out.

Explain please.

Explain please.

I can agree that a few can keep the many in place, and that’s definitely not a balanced chore… why be everyone else’s anchor.

Exactly Mags, why? Stupid love and compassion, selflessness and more ridiculous stupidity lathered on top until the flock is better off. :sad-roulette: Whatever better off means, Phyllo’s up to the task God, so tell Phyllo.

I have no idea what this is about. :confused:

But the categorical, ethical has ramifications above and beyond the problems of non attachment, whereas, and wherein the social must overcome personal interest. That is why no exit for an existential nihilism either. Not that the existent and the value in existence-life can ever be united in this way.

No exit from this split between the for itself and the in itself.

Therefore, we never know the difference between them and are compelled by others who know, or we have to act in accord with it, as we knew it. This is our responsibility. we can man up to it, or abandoned the position. But we can never leave, because there is no place to go to avoid it. It is the product of being thrown into the world.

You are on a page in philosophy and I am on the street walking the walk. There is the difference.

How do you abandon eternity?

By trying to leave here, and now, by successive ,fruitless attempts to get away.

The only thing Sartre has left, is, that getting away never happens, because the here and now is always there and then.

Actually, the other way: the there and then, is always the here and now. No exit.

You have made fruitless attempts?

Where’s Jesus for Christ’s sake?

Jesus the man gone, Jesus the God is with His Father, and His Father is You and I brother. We are responsible for Him.