Interesting
Query: How can one use the irrational to rationalize the irrational?
Accept all as real. That's the best answer I can possibly give.
For instance, if a friend has (or hasn't) taken something and happens to be seeing nine-headed cactus demons, it's usually best to
not attempt to forcefully insert reality--e.g. that the demon isn't there--but to work with the situation as if it was real.
After a while it becomes habitual. You stop telling people to leave you alone because "they have no right" and start dealing with whatever it brings.
Being that many atheists speak of rationality and irrationality as a base comparison against other philosophies, it's worth wondering what identification and persecution of the irrational gets in human terms. When it gets down to individuals, it's simply a matter of where one chooses to stop dealing compassionately with people.
At the end of the day, identity labels are something twixt you and yourself, so it seems the only thing at stake when putting aside the more observable aspects of life is a few minutes of understanding and the psychology of control.
All theories of life, the Universe, and everything (or specific lacks thereof) are only comparative in their final value. That is, at the end of life, what will one say of another?
He never understood people at all, and rejected their idiosyncracies. As a result died alone, but at least he had his principles. When human behavior is defined rationally, perhaps I'll think differently about such things. In the meantime, though, the only way to achieve rational results from irrational factors and devices is to accept the results as rational end results.
Sometimes it's necessary and sometimes it can be left to one's discretion. But whether or not one wants to accept the real condition that human beings exist, the life of the purely rational--much like the purely religious--is best kept by a hermit.
Here,
Star Trek fans anywhere? Try this TNG idea:
Prove to Commander Data that he exists in such a manner as to not require irrationaility in the results. Think of it this way: explain the value of human life as compared to any other product of the Universe
without sinking into irrationality.
Most Americans probably remember how much they hated their "be" verbs.
I can't imagine why.
"I am," as a factual conclusion, is the most irrational idea to ever occur to us. As a result, most people are still unsure as to whether or not they even exist. Insofar as I can tell, the Judeo-Christian influence has resulted in a large forfeiture of the concept of existence (and rationality) in order to find comfort in the vagary.
thanx,
Tiassa