“For the first time in history, more people die today from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists, and criminals combined.” “The average human is far more likely to die from bingeing at McDonald’s than from drought, Ebola or an al-Qaeda attack.”
Yuval Noah Harari, book Homo Deus; A Brief History of Tomorrow, 2017
What was that? It can’t be right! Yet in the last few decades, we have been able to move closer to managing famine, plagues, and war. We haven’t overcome them but we have significantly decreased their effect on us. If we do solve these, what will we work on next? That is the topic of the book “Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow” by Yuval Noah Harari, a Ph.D. of history from the University of Oxford.
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That’s where all this “me” attitude has come from. You are out for yourself. You put emphasis on feelings, desires, and experiences. This type of thinking will be the destruction of us.
In my book “Who’s Changing the Meaning?” I address Humanism’s idea of; it’s bad if it hurts someone, by looking at Relativism. We define relativism as; “The belief that different things are true, right, etc., for different people or at different times; a theory that knowledge is relative to the limited nature of the mind and the conditions of knowing; seeming to be something when compared with others.”
Relativism is different things to different people. That means it is not absolute. It is at best a shooting target, hoping it lands where the result is favorable to you.
What the definition states is relativism is truth based on what anyone will think even though they aren’t capable of knowing yet if it really is or isn’t something. The entire definition contradicts itself, making no sense at all, yet we accept relativism when any idiot refers to
Yuval Noah Harari, book Homo Deus; A Brief History of Tomorrow, 2017
What was that? It can’t be right! Yet in the last few decades, we have been able to move closer to managing famine, plagues, and war. We haven’t overcome them but we have significantly decreased their effect on us. If we do solve these, what will we work on next? That is the topic of the book “Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow” by Yuval Noah Harari, a Ph.D. of history from the University of Oxford.
What about …show more content…
That’s where all this “me” attitude has come from. You are out for yourself. You put emphasis on feelings, desires, and experiences. This type of thinking will be the destruction of us.
In my book “Who’s Changing the Meaning?” I address Humanism’s idea of; it’s bad if it hurts someone, by looking at Relativism. We define relativism as; “The belief that different things are true, right, etc., for different people or at different times; a theory that knowledge is relative to the limited nature of the mind and the conditions of knowing; seeming to be something when compared with others.”
Relativism is different things to different people. That means it is not absolute. It is at best a shooting target, hoping it lands where the result is favorable to you.
What the definition states is relativism is truth based on what anyone will think even though they aren’t capable of knowing yet if it really is or isn’t something. The entire definition contradicts itself, making no sense at all, yet we accept relativism when any idiot refers to