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Wake Up!

25 Thursday Sep 2014

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David Hume, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Immanuel Kant, John Locke, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, René Descartes, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Hobbes

Most people go through their lives like machines, creatures of habit. They get up in the morning, eat breakfast on the way to work, work eight or nine hours and come home. They live their lives for the chance to do something for themselves on the weekend. These people are creatures of habit. They follow the role model of their parents before them; go to school, get an education, get a good job, start a family, work for forty years, and retire for a while and then die.

Living your life by rote is not living life, in my opinion. There are underlying meanings to concepts like truth and justice, concepts that we take for granted on a daily basis. Most people in the United States today have no idea what or how our society came in to being. What are the fundamental ideologies that serve as the foundation for American thought process? Each of the founding fathers of this country have many philosophical roots in the great thinkers prior to the birth of this nation. Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates stand as the cornerstone of great societies. Aquinas and Descartes server as the foundation of Western thought, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Hobbes, Marx, Hegel, Kant, and Mill stand as pillars that we based the last several centuries on.

Thoughts On God

23 Tuesday Sep 2014

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Life, religion

The concept of god/God has developed over thousands of years. The concept has evolved and has been reshaped, multitude of times separate of what God may actually be. In Man’s attempt to understand their surroundings, they initially did take the concepts around them and started to form them into an all-purpose, and all in one god. The Canaanite deity Elyon was adopted and reshaped into El. Many human like attributes were said to be his, like jealousy, angry, demanding, loving, and forgiving god. As time went by and after the Semite peoples known as the Hebrews, then the Israelites, then once establishing Judea, they became the Jews. During several tumultuous periods of captivity and rebirth, the concept evolved even more. Just before the time of Christianity, the concept of God changed into something less emotional and more of a spiritual being. As Christianity took over the Jewish God El who became Elohim, and eventually YHWH/Adonai and under the Roman Catholics Jehovah, this concept of spirit was “fleshed out” a bit. God is all-good, God is all-wise. God is all powerful, God is all knowing. This description was not about defining the Universe, but the One who could create this or any universe. If you read the Old Testament of the Bible, you will find many laws that were actually just plain common sense for the times. Like don’t eat the pig (because the creatures eat its own feces you will not be able to cook it enough to kill all the diseases in it) or don’t make the latrines within your camp, etc… My personal thoughts on the subject of Worship come down to this. We are meant to worship our creator by being the best human I can be and treating all other humans with dignity and respect as well. For what purpose would a god or God want offerings of blood, sacrifices, or anything of this world, for he needs them not? I do not worship laws of physics but I obey them, as I have not yet achieved the ability to forgo them and create my own laws of physics…yet.

Master Of Our Own Destinies

22 Monday Sep 2014

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We are our own gods and master of our own destinies. We chose what type of person we want to be. There is no one on the Earth that can solve your problems but you. Ultimately, the key to your life, your soul, and your existence is in your own mind and you just need to unlock it. You cannot unlock this potential by meditation or taking drugs and alcohol, Praying to God or gods will do you no good either as you don’t believe in them. You cannot petition the lords with prayer. The unlocking of your mind will come when you least expect it. When you are not thinking about it, when you are quiet and peaceful, it will come like bright light shining on your life when you thought you saw clear before, now you will see with a clarity that will be amazing.

The Concept of Wanting Things

19 Friday Sep 2014

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I think that the want of things is a matter of nurture over nature. However, I believe the tendency for one to be more inclined to want more than others. Example, a child whose parents deny or limit in the extreme basic needs may cause a child to grow up with a greater desire to WANT more in order to compensate for what they lacked as a child. Conversely, a child may grow up the feelings of entitlement and believe that the world owes them more.In both cases I blame the parents for not moderating their child’s psychology. Culture is also a motivating force. Growing up around people who always strive for more than they need will also cause this sense of need. I would blame religion but it is really a lack of ethics and that may or may not be a failing with religion but more of a sense of a lack of identity and self esteem of the greedy person.

Some Thoughts On Life

16 Tuesday Sep 2014

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I have ever since I was in my preteens. wondered about purpose, and meaning of life, death and immortality. This is what I found; Life is not worth living unless one lives life to its full extent. Who determines a life’s full extent? You do. You decide who and what you want out of life and what you want to be. It is all up to you. You ask, does life have a meaning. It does to me. I created my meaning of life, for me and my family. I created my world where I am the master of my domain. Was it easy, hell no, it wasn’t but it made me who I am. Was it worth it, hell yes, to look into the eyes of my children and realize that their love for me and all that I have taught them. Yes. I struggled to find meaning in life and didn’t realize I had found it all along. It was always there, I just had to notice it.

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