Plato, Nietzsche, Spinoza, DeCartes, I read them all. Also Lao Tsu, Sun Tzu, and Confucius in Eastern philosophy.
In the end I felt that though philosophy never really provided any answers, it was great for helping to define the questions.
Friday, December 27, 2013
The Yin and Yang of the search for truth.
Plato, Nietzsche, Spinoza, DeCartes, I read them all. Also Lao Tsu, Sun Tzu, and Confucius in Eastern philosophy.
In the end I felt that though philosophy never really provided any answers, it was great for helping to define the questions.
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NPR had a lead story this morning on Autism and fruit fly research.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/12/27/256904807/can-a-fruit-fly-help-explain-autism
Immediately I thought of Sarah Palin stumping back in 2008 openly ridiculing this research. Yes Sarah, your legacy of ignorance and stupidity will be online for eternity..
http://youtu.be/HCXqKEs68Xk
In the end, I discovered that it comes down to faith, either you choose to want it, or you don't. Either way it is only your choice and not the product of some loud talker with a bullhorn, hell bent for leather to mold you.
ReplyDeleteThis Christmas, I spoke to my husband about how, as a kid, I believed the Nativity story completely. Now that I no longer call Jesus the "son of God", there is a certain loss of magic on Christmas night, when I can try to summon up the feeling I had, looking up at the sky and thinking about the wise men coming, and the baby being born. I can live with the loss, and I can pretend to believe it for the memory of the joy of believing, but I can completely understand how some people would pretty much go mad if they couldn't believe any more. It's so much more comfortable to just keep on believing....so much more fun to those who do.
ReplyDeleteMe, I can keep the Jesus story as a beautiful parable and leave it at that.
Philosophy still asks about faith and god, but it has reason to guide it. Religion doesn't. It has formal structure, but no rationality. This is why I'm an atheist.
But I can feel for those who are afraid to lose their faith when I think of the Christmas story becoming just another myth for me. It's hard to change the way we think.