Comments by "Jackie Wu" (@jwu1950) on "Academy of Ideas" channel.

How a man ought to live ? 500 years after Socrates, Jesus gave us the answer : love God with all our heart, with all our mind, and with all our soul, and love one another as Jesus loved us. With regard to knowledge, Socrates actually said he knew only one thing, and that is he knew nothing. We humans know nothing, period. We live by our beliefs, not our knowledge, for knowledge we have none. We pursue our knowledge of virtue all our lives and we never get it, because we have no knowledge, and because virtue is merely what we believed is virtuous. Virtue, morality, good and evil, is always subjective, transient, and circumstantial. There is no such thing as objective virtue, permanent virtue, or absolute virtue. It's that simple. With regard to "an unexamined life is not worth living.", it all depends on what you believe "worth" is. If "happiness" is our ultimate goal, our ultimate worth, ignorance is bliss, and is also the most precious. Ignorance is to not pretend we know shit. Knowledge does not bring happiness. It is always our belief that we know we are virtuous that brings great happiness. But are we virtuous ? We don't know. The truth is, we are virtuous during the moments we believed we are virtuous. Those moments are always subjective, transient, and circumstantial, never objective, permanent, or absolute. Detachment is the way to true happiness. May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.
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@sarahnassar8833 Jesus is a man. God is not a he because God is not a man. A man cannot be God. And God cannot be a man. It's that simple. Jesus is not a Monotheist. He does not believe in only one god. He is Polytheistic, believing in multiple gods. Jesus confirmed that we are all sons and daughters of God, and that we are all gods. May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.
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@sarahnassar8833 Agree. Jesus is not God. Just like you and I and everyone else, Jesus is a son of God. Jesus taught us to love God. He never ask us to worship God. No human knows what God is. So, what's there to worship ? We love God for what God is, for all of God's good and all of God's evil, even as we don't know what God is. It is similar to we love our ancestors though we don't know what our ancestors are. We believe we are sons and daughters of God the same way we believe we are sons and daughters of our ancestors and our parents. May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.
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@sarahnassar8833 Agree. Christians are blasphemers. And so are Muslims for believing in prophets and prophecies. Prophecies undermined, marginalized, and misrepresented God because God does not need some men to do God's bidding. Thus prophets are blasphemers. Jesus is not a Christian, he is not Christ, and he never prophesized. Jesus actually specially told us in Matt 24:23-28 not to believe in or follow the Christ and the false prophets because they are vultures who feed on dead meat. Any one can Google and read it. May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.
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Metaphysics is the foundation of science. All scientific theories are in essence metaphysical. Science without metaphysics is hollow and meaningless materialism. Changes are inescapable in our physical world. Because of changes, nothing physical is permanent, absolute, objective, or universal. However, changes are not random. The law of cause and effects rejects the notion of randomness, chance, and accident. Every effect is caused, and every cause has effects, bar none. This is a law because this can be observed repeated and always yield the same result. The law of gravity, the law of electromagnetism, Ohm's law all indicates changes follow certain strict rules and order with zero exception. That, is the metaphysical reality. This is clearly explained in the 5000 year old Chinese I-Ching, the Book of Transformation. There is no separate good or bad, there is only Yin Yang. May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.
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