As I still seek to advance more toward the Light,
despite my own aged physical receding,
(soon to be deader than a doorstopper), how do I and billions of other human
primates deal with the mysterious, conundrumed central questions of our existence?
1. What new ethical insights ought we to be seeking, and hopefully, finding, like our forebears
before us who discovered the truths of equality, human rights, peacemaking, and transcendence?
2. How do we counter the current false human narratives, life-stances, and worldviews which cause so much havoc, intolerance, anguish, suffering,
and destruction?
3. How do we discern what is true versus what is illusion and superstition in ultimate matters, when we can't prove "OUGHTs"?
For instance, how can we witness to human worth?
Hard secularists claim there is so much evidence from biology, neuroscience, and physics that
human choice,
moral responsibility,
creativity,
even human consciousness are ALL illusions/delusions.
According to them only atoms locked-into-a-hard-fated cosmos exist. NOTHING else.
4. If every human truly has inherent value, why is it that so many billions of humans deny this in their reasoning, or their daily behavior?
5. How are Friends (and other transcendentalists and moral realists) different from humanists who appear to claim that all humans do have "inherent worth" YET at the same time claim that only matter and energy exist?
Human Manifesto III: "We are committed to treating each person as having inherent worth and dignity, and to making informed choices in a context of freedom consonant with responsibility."
Is this a semantic problem or are they being contradictory?
6. Do we ourselves have contradictions within our own life-stance?
7. This day are we moment by moment working in each relationship to truly relate as that the other person has "inherent value' within her/himself?
In the Light,
Daniel Wilcox
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