God has given me a gift I cannot ignore...
Yes I have a religious background, and yes my view isn't the typical view someone with beliefs similar to mine might have, but I am not going to ignore the depth of the mind. I agree that I may have approached this in anything but the typical way someone with my moral foundation may have.
It is often discouraged, and even looked down upon to incorporate philosophy into "religion", but one may learn a great deal from examining the human mind from a secular point of view. I am not your typical theological advocate. I often am referred to (and I too accept this statement about myself) as "a philosopher with a christ bearing soul."
Philosophy is very interesting and very deep and many people can learn a great deal from it.
I tend to often live by a certain quote by the great philosopher Aristotle, "It's is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." I do indeed entertain thoughts, to a higher level then most would expect of someone of my background, and I choose not to shelter myself from what I can learn a great deal from.
The human mind cannot expand its knowledge and depth without being challenged with knowledge and depth. (a personal theory)
Now, I impose a question to you guys: What is truth? Does it exist? How can we be sure that it does? Whats right? Whats wrong? What determines what is right and what is wrong? Who is to say what is right and what is wrong?
If there were no morals and ethics to live by, how would murder and hatred and any other "evil" thing be considered "evil". If there is no standard of right and wrong, how can something be right or wrong?
I know this sounds twisted and what not, but think about it, if someone has no foundation of right and wrong, how can we say someone else's actions were wrong when we ourselves don't truly know what right and wrong is? There has to be some kind of foundation of moralistic values to determine what right and wrong is, where do yours come from? If someone had no foundation of morals, how is he to determine what right and wrong is? What makes our moral system right? How can we determine ours is right? What makes it right? Where did our morals come from? Why do we hold the belief that they are true?
If someone doesn't know why they have the morals they do and where the foundation is, how can that person believe their morals are truth?
In my opinion, my morals are truth because of my beliefs, but someone else can believe their morals are truth and have completely different beliefs, but what I want to know, is why you guys think your morals are truth, what is your foundation as to why you think what right and wrong is?
How can someone accept truth from opinion?
People have foundations that are different from ours and so they have completely different morals from the most of us, but they have a foundation, and so they believe their morals are truth. If someone lacks foundation, they lack truth, but they may still have morals, not of truth though, just of opinion.
What makes you right and others wrong? What makes others right and you wrong? One thing. Opinion.
An argument based entirely on opinion will never cease due to lack of factual foundation, no truth can prevail from opinion.
This raises another question, Does truth exist? After all, whose truth is right and wrong, that too is a matter of opinion.
I believe my truth to be correct based on evidence I have seen, but it was my discretion whether or not to believe it as truth or not, and its merely my opinion the evidence I have seen proves its truth, to others the evidence is not substantial enough.
In my opinion, truth doesn't exist, only a matter of opinion on what truth is exists.
Is that last statement true? No. It's merely an opinion on what is believed to be true.
We can argue truth, morals, right, wrong, religion, genocide, and many others, but when it comes down to it, its all a matter of opinion. Some things can be true to some but not others.
We can go in a round about circle arguing our opinions, but when in reality, we will reach no conclusion because we all possess a different point of view on every single situation.
Again I state, "An argument based entirely on opinion will never cease due to lack of factual foundation, no truth can prevail from opinion."
-The Last Scholar-
It is often discouraged, and even looked down upon to incorporate philosophy into "religion", but one may learn a great deal from examining the human mind from a secular point of view. I am not your typical theological advocate. I often am referred to (and I too accept this statement about myself) as "a philosopher with a christ bearing soul."
Philosophy is very interesting and very deep and many people can learn a great deal from it.
I tend to often live by a certain quote by the great philosopher Aristotle, "It's is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." I do indeed entertain thoughts, to a higher level then most would expect of someone of my background, and I choose not to shelter myself from what I can learn a great deal from.
The human mind cannot expand its knowledge and depth without being challenged with knowledge and depth. (a personal theory)
Now, I impose a question to you guys: What is truth? Does it exist? How can we be sure that it does? Whats right? Whats wrong? What determines what is right and what is wrong? Who is to say what is right and what is wrong?
If there were no morals and ethics to live by, how would murder and hatred and any other "evil" thing be considered "evil". If there is no standard of right and wrong, how can something be right or wrong?
I know this sounds twisted and what not, but think about it, if someone has no foundation of right and wrong, how can we say someone else's actions were wrong when we ourselves don't truly know what right and wrong is? There has to be some kind of foundation of moralistic values to determine what right and wrong is, where do yours come from? If someone had no foundation of morals, how is he to determine what right and wrong is? What makes our moral system right? How can we determine ours is right? What makes it right? Where did our morals come from? Why do we hold the belief that they are true?
If someone doesn't know why they have the morals they do and where the foundation is, how can that person believe their morals are truth?
In my opinion, my morals are truth because of my beliefs, but someone else can believe their morals are truth and have completely different beliefs, but what I want to know, is why you guys think your morals are truth, what is your foundation as to why you think what right and wrong is?
How can someone accept truth from opinion?
People have foundations that are different from ours and so they have completely different morals from the most of us, but they have a foundation, and so they believe their morals are truth. If someone lacks foundation, they lack truth, but they may still have morals, not of truth though, just of opinion.
What makes you right and others wrong? What makes others right and you wrong? One thing. Opinion.
An argument based entirely on opinion will never cease due to lack of factual foundation, no truth can prevail from opinion.
This raises another question, Does truth exist? After all, whose truth is right and wrong, that too is a matter of opinion.
I believe my truth to be correct based on evidence I have seen, but it was my discretion whether or not to believe it as truth or not, and its merely my opinion the evidence I have seen proves its truth, to others the evidence is not substantial enough.
In my opinion, truth doesn't exist, only a matter of opinion on what truth is exists.
Is that last statement true? No. It's merely an opinion on what is believed to be true.
We can argue truth, morals, right, wrong, religion, genocide, and many others, but when it comes down to it, its all a matter of opinion. Some things can be true to some but not others.
We can go in a round about circle arguing our opinions, but when in reality, we will reach no conclusion because we all possess a different point of view on every single situation.
Again I state, "An argument based entirely on opinion will never cease due to lack of factual foundation, no truth can prevail from opinion."
-The Last Scholar-