Five Thoughts
65These are my opinions on a few things, they were important enough to me to write down, yet are only my opinions...
1. Evolution is a fact. Creationism is also a fact. The truth of how humans came to exist is not fully understood by either side. Either side alone is lacking empirical data and objective evidence. Together they contain missing facts and details that point to a synthesis that makes much more sense when looked at rationally. Believe what you like, but one sided knowledge is always unbalanced. Science and Religion are both correct about some issues.
That is a fact.
2. Religion is irrational. Science is irrational. Religion has many merits, but highest ranking of these is that it has been asking the hardest questions about the nature of our existance longer than any other art or field of study by thousands of years. Science has many merits, but the highest ranking among them is the critical analysis of the universe from an empirical point of view. Neither provides incontrovertable facts, but both provide facts based upon the current level of human knowledge. All knowledge will eventually be proven false as we move closer to the truth. Religion and Science have wisdom and logic, but neither is universally true nor absolute.
3. Here's a lesson; just because you don't 'get it doesn't mean it's wrong. I bet you don't get astrophysics or quantum mechanics either...but that doesn't mean they are bad or immoral. There are some things that affect all of us, even if you don't believe in them. So the justification of morality upon every individual, based on hypocritical judgement of all humans as alike is hypocrisy. Unless you have a vagina, abortion is none of your business. What other people do in bed with other consenting adults doesn't concern you, unless you're invited. If you're not gay, shut up about gay marriage. What should it matter to you if you're not gay? Act as an example of what you believe. Others will follow if it is a good one.
4. Existence didn't ask your opinion when it came into being, and it's never going to. Jesus isn't coming, and if he is most of us should be cautious what we are doing his name and justifying it as being a Christian. There aren't any virgins waiting for you in heaven. There is most probably no heaven at all, and if there is then killing yourself and a bunch of other people seconds before you die is not likely to be the best way to get there. Also, all those highschool shootings like Columbine and Jonesboro are not the fault of video games, the blame lies elsewhere. Many things exist, and many awful things are part of human existence. It doesn't make them anything other than human errors of judgement in the moment, the universe is not responsible for humans having tunnel vision about the universe and life.
5. Women are people. They're not another kind of people, or the enemy. Men are people too. The war between the sexes is probably as old as the stone age, but the greatest travesty is the continual rewriting of history and the more and more screwed up version of it we are taught to believe. For example, many historians write of the large number of witches burned and killed during the Inquisitions in Europe. Reality check, large numbers of women, witches, homosexuals, lesbians, prostitutes, divorcees, bastards, loud mouthed artists, politically subversive individuals, practitioners of science, writers of books, promoters of literacy, enemies of the holy church, non-christians, midwives, healers, Africans, Asians, Jews, Arabs, non-Romans, mentally retarded, physically disabled, children, heretics, (oh yeah and also)Templars, Hospitalers, Druids, Wiccans, Saxons, Greeks, Atheists, Agnostics, Gnostics, and last but not least Satanists...were put to death without fair trials, a jury of their peers, or even notifications of their families during the Inquisitions in Europe. Women have been victims alongside many other human beings wrongly.
...these are five thoughts I had recently, and pondered why I believe them.
You are absolutely right to agree or disagree with any of these thoughts expressed here. I simply feel they are things worth pondering by us all...
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It's good that you know where you stand and what you believe. Having some insight keeps us in the center of the road. If you know nothing, then everything I say is believable whether it is true or not. Those things we do not understand become a "leap of faith" or else we allow our fears to drive our beliefs. Regardless, it becomes an individual choice and responsibility. My two cents. Thanks for an inspiring piece that covers a lot of ground. WB
Hmn.....
bibi big up with you
i think we agree on so many ground
YOU ARE SO RIGHT!
Many have gone before you, to heaven or maybe hell with those same musings. I think I'll mosey on to Alaska.
In #5, I like how you addressed the issue of gender... "Women are people [...] men are people..."
I like these statements vs some like, "the fairer sex" or "the stronger sex" (men) or "the weaker sex."
I'm going to ponder over this one: "the universe is not responsible for humans having tunnel vision about the universe and life."
Accountability... I would soooo like someone else to be responsible... I'll have a little trouble with this one but that's my personal quirk lol
Ah but "work" rhymes with "shirk" too, eh?
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worldgrandeur 21 months ago
You're right, if you don't something, it doesn't necessarily mean that it's immoral or wrong! I agree.