re: #761 iceweasel

I’m not trapping you here but asking a serious question— do you think nihilism is the only other option? If so, why?
This is a tangent.

Great question and yes, yes I do. If there is no deontological source of meaning, then we are trapped with only the meanings we make for ourselves and those meanings die with us. I really see no other escape that does not invoke some higher power outside of man.

If you say well thus and such gives meaning… then we come back with why thus and such and not something else. You chose that because you liked it. If you say well our memories give meaning, in time it all fades into entropy anyway. Without something outside of time and space - outside of the possibility of decay, nothing has any meaning with a capital M.

Getting back to Jewish thought, the answer to this really is that we are most concerned with the notion of Justice. Without something immutable to define Justice, there can be none, at least none with a capital J. Because we can not ever fully comprehend the crime, let alone the way to fix it and set things right again we are stuck either believeing that God can do this or that no indeed the univers will always be broken and that all things fade. The balance might not ever swing back and for sure entropy ultimately wins.

So very good question, and yes that is how I see things.