Philosophical and Theological Remarks

Solipsism is the default condition of human experience. That is what Sartre's Being and Nothingness is about really. He did say that only God could have the mind of the other and oneself simultaneously. Descartes' Meditations is French rationalism like Sartre's beginning with an epistemological doubt to prove or verify one's own existence. Throughout life one misunderestimates what it is that other people are thinking or know. How can one explain the apparent stupidity of politicians except to believe that their minds are hollow and only cognitive units perhaps cast by alien movie directors to vex normal people on Earth and make a better movie (just kidding)? I believe one doesn't think about solipsism too much and just goes on as if it weren't a thing because one can't do much with it. The idea isn't that other minds do not exist besides one's own. Instead the idea about solipsism is that one cannot prove they exist even if their is a surfeit of circumstantial evidence that they do. However the mind is just cognition, perception, language and experience. The body may fail and the mind worry about that. If one is a military medic and sees brains splattered one doesn't see a mind laying about. How can one's own thought prove that the words of others that originate actually exist somewhere in the brain of another? One's own mind is as ephemeral as that conjectured to exist within the brain and skull housing units of others. So people just kind of accept or recognize the working reality of the situation and move on to try to get positive things accomplished technically speaking.

The Academy philosophers (e.g. Socrates,Plato) called their activity alethea. It means truth. They told outsiders when asked that they were doing philosophy.

You may know about theodicy and the debates about God being responsible for evil or not. The world and Universe is a containment facility for those condemned with original sin. Humans are embedded in a temporal, thermodynamic field and are judged when their life is concluded. They have a chance to be saved or not. With so much information out there these days it's really up to the individual if they spend eternity in heaven or hell. God is wiling yet mankind is willful.

 I like to think of 'The One' that Plotinus mentioned in The Enneads as God the Father. Monism and pluralism present simultaneous unity and differentiation in all matter. Uncertainty in perceptions, borders and language are a priori categories of being. Free enterprise and private property allow specific progress and prosperity to develop. That requires some exclusivity. One cannot make 2 nanometer chips in a cow pasture, as the saying goes. Clean rooms are requisite and that means the unwashed cannot be too welcome. So one has conflicts- and there certainly are thieves, while some are greedy and maybe some politicians are sociopathic (eg Hitler and Stalin). One can try to makes the edges less sharp and create more comprehensive safety nets yet the task isn't politically simple. Good sentiments and a working healthy economy and world ecosphere need be compatible.