Friday, March 13, 2020
Expanding on a comment
The folks at UncommonDescent and MindMatters always see design as evidence of a "good" and "benevolent" creator.
I wrote a quick comment there that deserves a little more expansion.
Good and benevolent are unnecessary and unproven attributes. Design is proven and factual.
If you expect the design to be good, you're going to be disappointed, and you may despair of seeing design at all. Goodness isn't the IMPORTANT variable. What's important is simply knowing that life is designed.
If you follow the Enlightenment line, you believe that all humans are essentially inanimate and identical objects, buffeted by random forces. You can choose to be anything you want. Male, female, in-between, popular, tall, rich, God.
This simply isn't true. Older cultures aren't fooled by this set of lies. Older cultures understand that everything is designed, and everyone has specific permanent characteristics. Civilization happens when everyone occupies their permanently assigned PLACE and does their permanently assigned DUTY. Each of us has a DUTY to make more life, more beauty, more value, and each of us is assigned a specific way to accomplish the DUTY.
When you believe in the inanimate randomness of the Enlightenment, you are constantly surprised and unprepared for PURPOSEFUL actors.
When you know that everything is designed, and that some aspects of design are permanent, you won't waste time trying to be something that's PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE. You are more ready to defend your soul against PURPOSEFUL aggressors because you KNOW HOW THINGS WORK.
Labels: defensible times, From rights to duties, Natural law = Sharia law
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