Comment on Arabella 9 by darkmatterzone
thats not the message i was trying to impart. there is nothing wrong with faith, especially TRUE faith ("the assured expectation of things hoped for"). it is the misapplication and hypocritical actions that are wrong. the fact is, if you claim one thing and do another then you are a hypocrite. I myself am a dedicated scholar of ancient writings and philosophy as well as modern science. i know what is right and wrong, and yet i do what is wrong. it fills me with shame, and is a burden on my relationships, but i freely admit that fact. i may be a hypocrite, but i'm not delusional, and i don't presume to force my beliefs on others - especially since i don't live by those beliefs.
richard dawkins is a genius, but a fool nonetheless.
i appreciate your sentiment, thank you.
richard dawkins is a genius, but a fool nonetheless.
i appreciate your sentiment, thank you.
I just feel I have to point this out.
You say:
"if you claim one thing and do another then you are a hypocrite"
Then you say:
"i know what is right and wrong"
And then:
"I myself am a dedicated scholar of [...]philosophy"
Yet isn't the basis of philosophy to accept the fact that one will never truly know anything? Isn't philosophy the art of asking questions, no matter what?
I don't mean to troll or annoy you. I mean simply to point out and ask.
You say:
"if you claim one thing and do another then you are a hypocrite"
Then you say:
"i know what is right and wrong"
And then:
"I myself am a dedicated scholar of [...]philosophy"
Yet isn't the basis of philosophy to accept the fact that one will never truly know anything? Isn't philosophy the art of asking questions, no matter what?
I don't mean to troll or annoy you. I mean simply to point out and ask.
i didn't say i am a philosopher, i just study it.
Why study something if you don't aim to apply it?
knowledge. to understand what others think and why, especially to know where ideas come from. and philosophy is just a broad term like "religion" and "art". there are many strains, versions, ideas, and divisions. in fact, my study of philosophies has lead me to realize most of them are a kind of religion replacing deities with the human psyche. naturally, with such an unsteady ground as the human psychology, most philosophy gets rewritten, fractured, and ultimately weakened so many times as to become virtually unrecognizable to the originators.
I realize all this, I studied philosophy to some extent myself. But in the end, the goal is to make yourself a better person on many planes, and at the very root of this is the fact that one must accept that he knows nothing, and then start asking question to an almost compulsive degree. I simply aimed to stress the fact that no one can really claim to know what is right and wrong. Dostoevsky was pretty good at these right-or-wrong dilemmas.