i dont even know anymore
When one gets right down to it, it seems that everything one takes for granted as "right", or "real" can be broken apart and questioned. There is no such thing as a universal truth or answer. Take for example a chair. It may seem metal and blue and of a certain shape, yet everything we know about it can be questioned. It is not really blue, because the color can change based on light hitting it. A direct beam of light hiting it may reflect to our eyes and make it white, therefore the chair cannot be blue; furthermore, the texture may be hard and smooth, but we know that is simply our sense of touch. if we touch with our fingers then our toes, the metal feels differetnly to each, meaning that it is not a universal property of the chair, but rather the sense-data from our hands or feet.
This kind of questioning is really just an example of what the mind can do. The same can be said of morals, religion, good, evil, up down , left right, science, as can be said of the chair. so it occurs to me that we have to start from ground zero. Image standing in a room, and your senses turn off one by one. first your eyes, the world goes dark. then your touch, you cannot feel anythying.. not eveen the floor, you are floating in darkness. then your smell and sound go away... you cannot hear you yells or anything else, finally your taste, there is nothjng for you to base anything on.... if this is so, then what is there to the entire world?... thought. all you have is your mind to prove that you do exist. you are not even sure if you have a body, because no senses can prove it to you, however, you are doubting which means that your mind must exist, by virtue of that fact that you just thought it. as Rene Descarte stated so brilliantly, "I think therefore I am"
with this frame of mind we can once again look at our world. the sense of touch is what affects our lives most profoundly. Touch is what gives to man pleasure and Pain, and these two senses are the basis for original thoughts of good and evil. Good being waht gives us pleasure, and evil, or bad, waht gives us pain. but, if good and evil are based of these two simple and questionable senses(since we cannot prove they exist at all) how can we thus propose a system of universal morals and rights and wrongs. we must assume that good and evil was around since before man, if it is to be above and beyond man, if we strive towards it as an ideal. Yes, man must have stumbled upon good and evil, and not the other way around, if we can truly base our lives around it. That however, is not the case.
Good originally meant something of a noble and powerful stature, as the original greek thinkers said, and bad was anythying of low or weak stature. Christianity, however, has championed causes like pity and selflessness as ideals and "good". Yet, as many men of today are arguing, these ideas are weak and almost self-denail, which is not the natural state for man. Man is meant to decide his own right and wrong through trial and experience... not be handed some code of ethics from a supposedly "higher' being. there is life beyond good and evil. We should judge our own rights and wrongs in every situation, and if there is something that can further our lives, than morals are nothing but a barrier to the "ideal" we are searching for... lessening ourselves is not a means of bettering ourselves. Cast down the prejudice you find in front of you and search for your own truth... but remember, it all starts with a question.
food for thought "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." Soren kierkegarrd
This kind of questioning is really just an example of what the mind can do. The same can be said of morals, religion, good, evil, up down , left right, science, as can be said of the chair. so it occurs to me that we have to start from ground zero. Image standing in a room, and your senses turn off one by one. first your eyes, the world goes dark. then your touch, you cannot feel anythying.. not eveen the floor, you are floating in darkness. then your smell and sound go away... you cannot hear you yells or anything else, finally your taste, there is nothjng for you to base anything on.... if this is so, then what is there to the entire world?... thought. all you have is your mind to prove that you do exist. you are not even sure if you have a body, because no senses can prove it to you, however, you are doubting which means that your mind must exist, by virtue of that fact that you just thought it. as Rene Descarte stated so brilliantly, "I think therefore I am"
with this frame of mind we can once again look at our world. the sense of touch is what affects our lives most profoundly. Touch is what gives to man pleasure and Pain, and these two senses are the basis for original thoughts of good and evil. Good being waht gives us pleasure, and evil, or bad, waht gives us pain. but, if good and evil are based of these two simple and questionable senses(since we cannot prove they exist at all) how can we thus propose a system of universal morals and rights and wrongs. we must assume that good and evil was around since before man, if it is to be above and beyond man, if we strive towards it as an ideal. Yes, man must have stumbled upon good and evil, and not the other way around, if we can truly base our lives around it. That however, is not the case.
Good originally meant something of a noble and powerful stature, as the original greek thinkers said, and bad was anythying of low or weak stature. Christianity, however, has championed causes like pity and selflessness as ideals and "good". Yet, as many men of today are arguing, these ideas are weak and almost self-denail, which is not the natural state for man. Man is meant to decide his own right and wrong through trial and experience... not be handed some code of ethics from a supposedly "higher' being. there is life beyond good and evil. We should judge our own rights and wrongs in every situation, and if there is something that can further our lives, than morals are nothing but a barrier to the "ideal" we are searching for... lessening ourselves is not a means of bettering ourselves. Cast down the prejudice you find in front of you and search for your own truth... but remember, it all starts with a question.
food for thought "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." Soren kierkegarrd