If "GOD" came down and revealed his reality, then he/she/it would cease to be "GOD", and it wouldn't matter what he/she/it would tell us because he would only be some guy telling us what to do. Some of us would BELEIVE he is the God, some of us would BELIEVE he's just a guy with special powers, and some of us would BELIEVE he's just a guy with some tricks. I'm assuming that if "GOD" did come down and tell us to kill our family members, we would just start BELIEVING that it is not God (maybe the devil disguised as God, or a really mean guy who knows some pretty nifty tricks, or whatever). Without Belief, there is no God. Morals are defined by humans who beleive in God.
The idea that we must seek a happy state is also a corruption of our natural state, which is always in flux.
Hmm, what about people whose morals are different and thus their happiness is likely different ......and they move into a society where the morals are differnt to their own? And worse, what if the immigrants' morals and subsequent happiness causes the new group UN-happiness? Happiness? What is that and how can one define it objectively? And if it can't be defined objectively, then morals can't either, right? Baron Max
Most people live in their thoughts, and identify the thought process as theirselves, but I think this (the ego) is a recent invention that is passed on through culture. The natural state is the absense of this identification.
I pose this question first asked by Socrates: Is it good because God wills it, or does God will it because it is good?
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