I, at a visit to your site, read the pleas for enlightenment on the subject of philosophy, as well as the discussion about ID.
Although I perhaps am not qualified to suggest this answer, being from a significantly different locale, I will walk into the agora of Socrates nonetheless.
You create and govern your own reality through reason. You may percieve the outside world through your senses, but the way you choose to interpret the outside world literally holds sway over all of your reality, which is different from anyone else's.
Years ago, people believed in ghosts as an explanation for phenomena around them. They would point to events that were cohesive with this theory, and ignore those events that went against their theory to the point of oblivion. Are the laws of physics any different in their purpose?
We believe things to be true because our reason can affirm their validity. Our faculty of reason is what dictates how we understand the world, and our perception of reality completely depends on reason, and not so much on our senses.
If you choose to believe that God or philosophy exist, then they will.Your reality depends on nobody but yourself, and if you allow these concepts into your reason, then they will appear in your reality.
Choose wisely
Anonymous
08:35:44 PM
8 comments:
cute
That actually sounds very existentialist. Socrates had a very concrete belief system. While he didn't preach his belief system, it is commonly accepted that through the types of questions he asked he believded in a few things.
He obviously believed that there was some sort of concrete moral system, and that's why he asked questions like "what is courage," and "what is justice," because while he was showing everyone that they didn't really know he was sort of trying to pin down a good definition.
He also believed in an Immortal Soul of sorts, He believed that doing "bad" acts (ie against his concrete set of morals) then your soul would be harmed, and because your soul lasts forever and your body only a short time, it is therefore much more damaging to commit injustice than to suffer it.
He believed that people were inherently good and that no one would commit bad acts if they knew truly, deep down inside, that the act was bad. We should therefore feel very sorry for people who commit injustice, because through their ignorance they are destroying their immortal soul (hence the teaching through questions. If people know what bad acts are, they won't commit them).
Situational ethics (ie it's okay to kill someone in self defense but not because you want their money) came much later.
As to your second part about god and philosophy existing only if you believe in them is in itself a belief.
To me that is completely wrong:
Let's say you're colorblind, and that you can't tell the difference between green and red, and let's say that laws hadn't taken this into account and that stoplights didn't have a specific order, just red green and yellow in a random order.
Now, to you, green and red wouldn't exist, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. When you ran a red light and got hit and died it would instantly become very very real.
Just like that, I believe that there has to be some sort of existence. God has to exist or not, he can't be both. I don't believe in him, but perhaps when I die I'll run that red light right into Hell.
I am going to be the first to write: Wall O' Text. Use the "Enter" button. Breaking your post up makes it much easier to read.
didn't I?
^ I think anonymous was talking to the OP, not you, PChis.
hah, I know, but it's like confusion caused by incorrect pronoun use you know?
Yeah, sorry. I was referring to the OP
Post a Comment