I’m not cheer-leading for a new Earth. I want to believe the truth, therefore I want to learn the truth. And I don’t see the correlation between your wishes about extra-terrestrial life and actual astronomy.
And, again, whether or not they do has zero relevance to what the actual truth is. You’re acting like what people believe or want to believe is going to change the great filter.
If a great filter is in our future, I desire to believe that a great filter is in our future (then maybe, just maybe, I can help us escape it). Wishing doesn’t change the universe we live in; wishing may help change the behavior of people. Thus, this wishing seems reasonably wise.
What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn’t make it worse. Not being open about it doesn’t make it go away. And because it’s true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn’t there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.
This has happened only 3 or 4 times. If this has annoyed you then I think your expectations are way too high.
It hasn’t annoyed me. I am glad, that there is no Earth. An Earth somewhere moves the Big Filter into our future, from our past.
Cheer-leading for a new Earth is not a very wise wishing.
I’m not cheer-leading for a new Earth. I want to believe the truth, therefore I want to learn the truth. And I don’t see the correlation between your wishes about extra-terrestrial life and actual astronomy.
You don’t. NASA and especially media do.
Why I hope the search for extraterrestrial life finds nothing
And, again, whether or not they do has zero relevance to what the actual truth is. You’re acting like what people believe or want to believe is going to change the great filter.
That’s not what hope is for.
If a great filter is in our future, I desire to believe that a great filter is in our future (then maybe, just maybe, I can help us escape it). Wishing doesn’t change the universe we live in; wishing may help change the behavior of people. Thus, this wishing seems reasonably wise.
You really walked into it, but:
What is true is already so.
Owning up to it doesn’t make it worse.
Not being open about it doesn’t make it go away.
And because it’s true, it is what is there to be interacted with.
Anything untrue isn’t there to be lived.
People can stand what is true,
for they are already enduring it.
Right?
Recent tests show I am likely not HIV+. I mean I’d like to know if I was HIV+, but generally this result makes me feel better.
Shouldn’t we feel better when we have good reason to lower our estimates of bad things happening to us? Or would that upset our inner Spock?
Yes, good news makes us feel good. But hoping you don’t have a terrible disease doesn’t make it less likely that you have a terrible disease.
If the Great Filter is in our future, then that’s where it is.
That sounds to me like hoping that there isn’t evidence that the Filter is in front, because we’d prefer the Filter was behind.
Yes, and? We would prefer the filter to either be behind or, failing that, be something good rather than bad.
Evidence which makes this seem more likely should make us feel relief. Evidence which makes this seem less likely should make us feel worried.
The cheer-leading comment is pointing out that many people have this backwards. It’s not saying that we’re able to impact where the filter lies.
Thanks, that’s much clearer. Regretfully, I didn’t get that point at all from the original comment.
To me it sounded like someone pointing out to someone else that his emotional response is probably based on some false cached thoughts.