Posted: 4/24/2007 7:46:18 PM EDT
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So I am sitting here contemplating some reading I have done, and I am curious as to if Arfcom can help me sink it. Can someone name some actual universal truths? By this I mean ideas that are innate in one at birth, that everyone has and recognizes the same, even if they call it by different words. ETA An example would be morality. Some would say all people recognize it from birth. That does not mean they are bound by it, merely that they recognize it. Unless of course they are liberals/idiots/mentally incompetent. -Ben |
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These are all great guys, but I mean innate truths, as in ideas. Not actions. For example. I would say that fear is a universal truth. Everyone feels fear, and knows there are things to be feared, from birth to death. They may master their fear through experience, but they still know it/of it. Some people would say that the exsistence of G-d is a universal truth, but the writer of the text I was reading claims atheists do not posses an innate sense of the exisistence of G-d, and so it is not universal. (He is not an atheist by the way). -Ben |
Oh thats what you mean then: Hate is is a better motivtor than fear... |
Not sure I would call fear a "truth" per se, but perhaps more of a universal "reality" (at the risk of being overly semantic and nitpicky  )
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I'm 90% certain there are various forms of mental diseases that remove your sense of fear, or at least your capacity to recognize the emotion of fear in others and possibly yourself. Really, no emotion is totally universal. Vegetables don't feel most of them...people in coma's are pretty unaware as well. 
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Fear a universally known thing? I think you're excluding the insane here. If you can name one thing, I guarantee there is someone out there who will not recognize or acknowledge it. And by saying that some don't "get" morality; that's an exception right there. Who is to say that the liberals/idiots/etc aren't right, and you are? After all, sanity isn't universal.  The very existence of the concept precludes that.
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Those who spell "God," "G-d," immediately offer little incentive to pay attention to anything else they might say. This has nothing to do with religion, mind you, at least not as far as I'm concerned, it just seems to be one of those universal truths you're seeking. |
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One thing alone I know... GUNS ARE COOL!!! I came from my mother knowing this... I courted death in the Infantry knowing this... I sit, cooly superior to the sheep around me knowing this... I will die, go to my grave and decompose happily knowing this... GUNS ARE COOL That is all... |
Don't even go there, or I'll sic my rabbi on you. Seriously, neither he nor I know anything about this omitting the 'o' thing. But we're both old (okay, ancient), so if'n we're out of touch with the latest trends, cut us some slack, please. |
It depends on who wrote it. There are many Jewish scholars you would be ignoring, and some things they have to say are pretty interesting. |
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No such thing. We're born not knowing our head from our ass. Most of us need a good whack just to figure out how to breathe. Everything we know we've learned, children are completely amoral until they're taught to comply, you're looking for a fantasy. Objective truth is iffy too. But, in the spirit of the thread, "I can run faster scared than you can mad" is pretty universal, lardasses and handicapped excepted. |