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As absurd as this should seem, some will seriously contest the notion that it is better to be alive than it is to be dead. From the modest, if time consuming beginning of presenting an argument in favor of the common sense view on this issue, on the Almond Jar we will move toward a defense of the Hellenic dicta "Know Thyself" and "All things in moderation", via a discussion of The Universal Base Code of Morality.

The problem presented to us is that some will discard their instincts and their emotions when conceiving their philosophies, demanding that those instincts and emotions come with "reasons". They forget that any logical system ultimately has to rest on some set of axioms (assumptions not justified by argument), and to discard one's experience of life until those experiences can be shown to be "justified", is to close the door on the possibility of establishing such axioms. Small wonder, then, that those who do so will often find their efforts, and sometimes even their lives, meaningless. By removing all content from the systems they conceive to define their lives, they guarantee that their view will be guided by something that is empty at its core. How could anything but a sense of emptiness follow? Click here to continue.

This page is part of Meeting the Pharoah on the Almond Jar.