No End In Sight

My writings will never be finished. I write things and then later on think they're immature.

But to stop writing because of the endless reconstruction would be to fall for the entropic fallacy, the same false assumption that general pessimism depends on. So in spite of imminent entropic doom and the world situation, I'm somehow just as hopeful as I've ever been.

Impatience to better my situation caused a number of problems, but they were also by-products of just morally and spiritually rethinking issues. That slow process of change began long ago when I asked a few key questions, thereafter wanting to free myself and my mind from authority and bias, and continued until I braved the woes and interrogated what I assume in those questions.

Now I resolutely face the worst and reject almost like breathing the authority of anything merely established or traditional while trying to develop my own habits that measure up to the standards I've chosen, such as freedom, humaneness, and rational criticism.

I also realize now that I alone am responsible for controlling my life , and no other human authority. It's up to me alone to avoid suffering, sickness, and death so that I can pursue my goals as much as possible while I have the time.

Of course, this personal revolution has carried with it certain self-destructive powers.

But they may yet be comfortably subdued by a wiser ascendancy.

Win Or Lose

Whoever loses control, loses.

Negation By Omission

Evil has power only because its secrets are hidden.

And God Said...

God has said everything already, so it's just a matter of reading it off reality.

The Devil Made Me Lose It

Welfare states have existed for long periods of time without the development of a modern underclass. The missing factor was ideas.

Human behavior cannot be explained without referring to the meaning and intentions people give to what they do and do not do. Everyone has a world view, whether they realize it or not.

And their ideas are the source of their misery.

Their ideas are revealed in the language they use, in the frequent remarks of passivity, for example. An alcoholic, explaining their conduct while drunk, will say, "The beer went crazy." A heroin addict, explaining their resort to the needle, will say, "Heroin's everywhere." The beer drank the alcoholic and the heroin injected the addict.

Other remarks serve an exculpatory function and reveal a denial of agency and therefore of personal responsibility. The murderer claims the knife went in or the gun went off. The person who attacks their sexual consort claims that they "went into a rage" or "lost it", as if they were the victim of a kind of epilepsy of which it is the doctor's duty to cure them. Until the cure, they can continue to abuse their consort, for such abuse has advantages for them, safe in the knowledge that they, not their consort, are the true victim.

from Life at the Bottom: The Worldview that Makes the Underclass, by Theodore Dalrymple

Heuristic Universals and Necessary Truth

At the pinnacle of questions about the total in every sense, there is not only a set of irreducible values and rules of thumb about questions themselves (as well as everything else), but an entire structure of such identities and rules arises from the overall statement-question set itself. And then it becomes self-repeating, of necessity.

So there is this godlike objective rule set according to which everything is thought about.

To follow such rules is to express or predicate truth about values and increase the value of values themselves, by using those rules and thereby valuing them as valuable means to an ultimate value or goal, of a better situation in every conceivable sense, to approximate an ultimate good of some kind, which is the highest value (God is the best of all possible situations, among other things), the ideal by which all value judgments are themselves adjudicated.

And it's this expression and use, discovered from a set of questions and considerations, a set of universal or general statements in other words (questions themselves being interrogative statements) that is itself questioned, and therefore explained, first.

This explanation is the set of Ultimate Truths.

Once Upon An Apriori

In the question itself, of whether logic can be proved to exist or work, "proved" exempts a non-problematic notion of logic already, as does the overall question itself.

The question already assumes the existence and efficacious operation of logic, by using "prove" as a request for logically related reasons which infer something---namely, the truth of the statements "logic exists" and "logic works".

If logic did not exist and do what we want and idealize it to do, the question would hardly make sense anyway, in what it means to be a question, not to mention it's value or being obligated to believe its alleged truth-value indeterminacy or lack of existence or workability.

Questioning already uses logic to implicitly obligate an answer and have meaning for inquiring minds.