Question by Analyst: What are your thought on this text?
It all begins with the ‘I am’.
The most self-evident of all truths, that ‘I’ signifies something distinct and unchangeable, is not just under dispute in the modern world; it is rejected by default. According to the inter-subjectivity of today’s researchers, genes and environment are the only factors to explain who you are; as if we’re some sort of biological robots without the presence a free will.
The fact that we have a conscious experience of this life cannot be explained by modern science; it is a phenomena in-itself (no, this is not a reference to Kant). Even the (seemingly) anti-spiritual English philosopher, Bertrand Russell, accepted this, but managed his headache by claiming that beyond the recognition of its existence, no further analysis was possible (my interpretation, not an exact quote).
If there is no free will, there can be no meaning of life beyond what our senses has to offer. To the truth seeker, the idea that this life is mainly about survival and earthly pleasures, is simply unbearable. The superficiality of the mundane way of living, the futility of social ambition, and the lack of independent thought, repels him/her so strongly, that almost any alternative path of life, no matter how riddled with uncertainty, is regarded as a better alternative. -As long as there is some justified hope for an elevation to a higher level of consciousness. Even chaos is preferred to the horrors of total stagnation.
Emotional numbness and mental stagnation are connected as plague and fever. No truth seeker can be anything but hypersensitive (not to be confused with hysteria, which is a form of social manipulation). He/she observes more, sense things stronger, and is easily caught up in an emotional turmoil. This makes him/her, needless to say, vulnerable.
Most people refuses to see the distinction between weakness and vulnerability. Weakness is to choose the wrong path when you can choose otherwise. If your vulnerability is overrun, you’re out of options. Every effort will just make you sink deeper down. Weakness is related to will, vulnerability is how much your system can handle.
A truth seeker is strong in the true sense of the word. He/she takes on the most formidable task of all; to acquire a genuine insight in the self and the universal purpose it was put here to serve. The everlasting search for meaning, the rejection of hypocrisy, and the primus motor for all of his/hers endeavours: The belief in a sharp distinction between good and evil.
Evil is ultimately the lack of will to understand.

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Question by Master ß ƒƒƒƒ: Is religion just philosophy without freedom of thought?
My partner and I were discussing the differences between religion and philosophy.

Whereas philosophy is everchanging and malleable based upon a person’s own individual interpretation of life based on their experiences, religion is set in stone from the beginning.

She likened religion to a fly, it comes into life fully grown; you can’t ask a fly to grow new limbs or change its color, similar to the way you can’t change religious doctrine, it’s there when you emerge from the womb as-is.

Is religion just a kind of philosophy which, unlike philosophy, can’t be challenged in the here and now, but simply accepted as it has been for generations?

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No, religion is malleable as well (modern popular Protestant theology, for instance, is nothing like its Renaissance predecessor). It’s a curious question – the two are actually kind of difficult to distinguish.

I was going to say that in religion, there is generally a gathering place and an organized authority, but this is sometimes the case in philosophy as well (think professors), and it’s not really always the case in religion (I can think of plenty of religious people who don’t attend a church, mosque, or other such gathering).

I was also tempted to say that you sort of have to pick a religion and believe everything they tell you to be true, whereas in philosophy you construct a worldview from bits and pieces you see as good ideas, but this also isn’t always true: many people combine schools of religious thinking, and many philosophers call themselves followers of specific philosophies (e.g. Kantian ethicists, Socratic scientists, et cetera).

It’s a good question – I don’t think there’s really a good distinction between religion and philosophy, with the exception that there are certain schools of thought that we recognize as ‘religious’ (e.g. Islam) and others that we recognize as ‘philosophical’ (e.g. Platonic Republicanism).

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Is it possible to find satisfaction with life if the invisible approaches don’t work? I like having hope and see life as quite short. Things like toys just don’t do it anymore. I’m looking for some takes on this subject.

its true) that to see things as ther really are you must somehow see beyond the world of appearances. I mean like, there is some guiding principle that lies beyond what we see with our eyes, and we must somehow discern it.
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an example which i already know is past presidents of the United States based their law and allot of their rules on the great Greek philosophers. how much impact has in made on us? Are we better with other rules? etc. ^^

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