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| Re: Common Sense IS the most uncommon thing -- San | Top of thread | Forum | |
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> To judge is as bad or worse than anything he or his people did.< Sorry San but that's simply nonesense. It is the exercise of critical faculties that deliniates the scale of human intelligence - that is we are only as intelligent as the judgements we make. Each moment of our lives is filled with the exercise of judgement - one can certainly apply critical judgement to judgement - criticism of the narrowness of a judgement employed or the inadequcy of the references used - but to suggest that judgement is somehow a bad thing is to deny a fundamental quality of being human. Ironically it is exactly that, that Rawat encourages - do not have doubt. In a universe where uncertainty is the only certain constant - Rawat's little mindedness is unbelievably absurd. I'm also not sure about the God judgment - if one accepts the supreme creator proposition then 'it' can not be bound by common sense or any human rationalization - 'it' if it exists, is free to inflict upon humans any irrationality that 'it' desires. Personally I think Rawat's pathetic aphorism relies on a semantic sleight of hand. Common Sense does not refer to 'sense' that is commonly used but to critical faculties that are commonly available to most humans most of the time - failure to use does not equal failure of availability. Of course it as never been in Rawat's interest to encourage critcal thinking so assuring premies that common sense isn't available rather plays into his hands. And the moral - if you you want to be free - doubt, judge, criticise.
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