Yes, as long as you accept that life involves ambiguity and limitations.
Cheers,
John

I think that is the essential nature of relativism? everyone had their own relative opinion about the same thing. I don't think that this should be ground breaking, but it should at least be expected, especially on this forum. Very rarely will you see other members redress a broad reaching post, but instead issue their own opinion and call it a day.

If you are looking for answers in metaphysics, all you will come up with are more questions? that's the nature of metaphysics? especially ontological metaphysics. It's like the joke;

Alan - "If atlas holds up the world, what does he stand on?"
Bob - "A giant turtle"
Alan - "What does that turtle stand on?"
Bob - "Another turtle"
Alan - "But what about that turtle?"
Bob - "My friend? its turtles all the way down.



Its great that you start to see a beautiful picture. I wouldn't let anybody's opinion change your perspective on stuff, or at least influence it to the point where you feel the contention is uncomfortable. Pessimists and nay-sayers have an awful way of sucking the air out of a room and replacing it with noxious gas unfit for human consumption. But on life sucking after you die, who really knows. Life could be sucking right now and could be a heck of a lot better when we die. LOL!



This I don't entirely agree with. Contrarians, though they disagree with you and may go against prevailing wisdom, are not always hyperlogical. But I don't know if I would use the debate over consciousness for an example? that is highly debatable. This is the fundamental backbone of modern philosophy for the past few hundred years that has been very highly debated and has many different interpretations. I think that you would agree with this assumption because you wonder how we can be sure about consciousness, in essence affirming the fact that there are multiple facets to consider. But this is kinda the rub about philosophy, which is the fact that it is very easy to leave an issue in ambiguity, but it is extremely difficult to narrow the topic down and come to some general consensus.



It's possible to stay "positivistic" and logical at the same time? the only problem is the fact that the world is populated with more than one person.

You just need a different viewpoint: Rather than seeing these conflicts as the insanity of the world, see then as the HILARIOUS insanity of the world

1)
Happiness and Truth (in its material/empirical form) do not often co-exist. There is a lot of validity in the maxim "ignorance is bliss". In the realm of metaphysics it is awefully easy to have conflicting views, as most assertions in metaphysics aren't empirically demonstrable. They are by neccessity based from axioms in other words the entire thought process is stemmed from a presupposed assertion. These processes are often entirely logical given that the presupposition is accurate.

2)
Logic is a system that can be applied to any thought process and stemming from a presupposition/axiom. Non-material traditions have flawless internal logic given the presuppositions from whence they stem. This may seem to be an argument that truth is unobtainable because anyone can make a presupposition and build a logical argument from it, however, it is not that. Logic and Happiness can co-exist easily if one does not automatically accept the current popular hypothetico-deductible materialist axiom. If one assumes a different starting point than 'life is short brutish and ugly' because the material logic makes me thinks so then one may very well be happy and completely rational/logical.

Its still happening in this post

I agree with the first replies and they inspired me. But then the last one brought me down a bit! Aha

Mostly because I'm evil

I knew it!

ahaaaaaaaaaaa

See i really don't find my posts all that depressing but it seems many others seem to think I'm bleak. I suppose its all in how you see bleak.

Yeah definitely.

I find the idea of a Christian heaven a horibble bleak idea. When they find it bleak how i can think anything else.

Seriously when you die you are still attached to your human ego and you go into the clouds with your family for all eternity!!

Sounds horrible to me But others can't imagine anything but!

Yeah clouds and family isn't for everyone, I suppose thats why hell was invented. Its like the Six Flags to Heaven's Disneyland.

Lol. Yeah definately

Could someone please pass me the celexa?

People tend to see truth and logic as depressing

Thats because people accept its wonderfull because people told then it is and forget to check if it is, actually, wonderfull

Eternal happiness is, oddly, not that happy. Just like water is not that wet then you are covered on it