Wednesday, August 18, 2010
A JEREMIAD
The symbols, institutions,etc of life have obscured and are gradually stifling the essence of life itself. People neglect the kernel of life and tussle for the shell;they overlook the substance in their pursuit of its shadows. They hold unto one shadow after another and solemnly proclaim it the substance. The human species has reached its climax.Degeneration from now onwards is going to be the case.What we now call progress is but a blind and catastrophic rush to our doom. We are returning to Hobbes' state of nature,and this is appearance in the developments in certain countries of the world (Iraq,Afghanistan,Pakistan,Somalia,etc). There cannot be civilization without improvement in morals. But in each direction we look now our eyes are greet by decadence and perversion (bestiality,homosexuality,pornography and frivolity). The American Dream is now the noisome pestilence of a world tottering on the brink of an apocalypse. The comfort of the body have been sacrifice to its glamour. People think that material prosperity is all that makes life worth living. But this have been repeatedly proven to be untrue. Prosperity carries decay and ruin as its shadows.
EXISTENTIAL REFLECTIONS
Life in general of all things that I have seen or known is the mystery of mysteries. Here on earth we are eking out our daily existence,bemoaning our woes,leaping up in ecstacy and seeming to float like balloons in the air. We are born to die: to what end is all this? What is the purpose behind this pageant of folly and misery? Why do we have to go through all these troubles?
Probably,there is an order and arrangement belong our ken,but nonetheless immanent in the fabrics of the of the tapestry of our universe. If such an order exists,then how can we find it and fulfill the purpose for which it is setup? On the other hand,if no such order exists,if life serves no higher purpose,how and what do we make of it: should it be to snatch and enjoy every species and fleeting moments of pleasure that we can lay our hands on,and then like all other before us pass into nonexistence?
I wish to understand. To pursue wisdom and knowledge to their very fountain is henceforth the goal I have set myself.
Probably,there is an order and arrangement belong our ken,but nonetheless immanent in the fabrics of the of the tapestry of our universe. If such an order exists,then how can we find it and fulfill the purpose for which it is setup? On the other hand,if no such order exists,if life serves no higher purpose,how and what do we make of it: should it be to snatch and enjoy every species and fleeting moments of pleasure that we can lay our hands on,and then like all other before us pass into nonexistence?
I wish to understand. To pursue wisdom and knowledge to their very fountain is henceforth the goal I have set myself.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
ON THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF ANNIHILATION
Annihilation is not real,it cannot be real. We live in time. Time is indefinite. Nothing is forever gained, nothing is forever lost. The past and the future are all the same. There is nothing new. The things that exist now are possibilities of the past,not things entirely new and different. Time is cyclical,not linear. After many possibilities things return to what they were. Good and evil counterbalances each other,so also do light and darkness, and other opposites. There is no end to time,for its end implies the annihilation of all things that exist within it, which is absurd. Now,given that nothing can exist or act outside time,time, therefore,make existence possible. A fortiori,reality can never come to an end.
Annihilation is not real,it cannot be real. We live in time. Time is indefinite. Nothing is forever gained, nothing is forever lost. The past and the future are all the same. There is nothing new. The things that exist now are possibilities of the past,not things entirely new and different. Time is cyclical,not linear. After many possibilities things return to what they were. Good and evil counterbalances each other,so also do light and darkness, and other opposites. There is no end to time,for its end implies the annihilation of all things that exist within it, which is absurd. Now,given that nothing can exist or act outside time,time, therefore,make existence possible. A fortiori,reality can never come to an end.
THE MACLORDIAN LAW OF ACTION
Know that which is possible under a particular circumstance or set of circumstances.Nothing can be absolutely possible in in every given circumstance.This is the mark of true wisdom.
DEFIANCE TO FATE AND FORTUNE
DEFIANCE TO FATE AND FORTUNE
I have so much been disappointed in things that I have a just expectation to come of successfully. I have been so much unjustly treated, persecuted and marginalized. Yet I will not yield; I will not succumb to all these woes. I will henceforth see in every failure a challenge to succeed, in every disappointment a triumph. I will conquer my fortune, I will shape myself in the image I desire, not just nature’s or chance’s own. This is what I have resolved to do. I am never going to give up the claim that Iam entitled to by nature and my assiduous application on fortune. Iam created for a higher purpose in this life. I am a member of the grand aristocracy of the cosmic order. Iam not going to allow myself to be reduced to a nullity. I will first die ere such a thing will happen. I therefore defy you fortune and fate: bring your worst and I will meet them with stoical resignation. I will not yield: I am not going to change my aspiration to the lofty heights of excellence in all I do.
I have so much been disappointed in things that I have a just expectation to come of successfully. I have been so much unjustly treated, persecuted and marginalized. Yet I will not yield; I will not succumb to all these woes. I will henceforth see in every failure a challenge to succeed, in every disappointment a triumph. I will conquer my fortune, I will shape myself in the image I desire, not just nature’s or chance’s own. This is what I have resolved to do. I am never going to give up the claim that Iam entitled to by nature and my assiduous application on fortune. Iam created for a higher purpose in this life. I am a member of the grand aristocracy of the cosmic order. Iam not going to allow myself to be reduced to a nullity. I will first die ere such a thing will happen. I therefore defy you fortune and fate: bring your worst and I will meet them with stoical resignation. I will not yield: I am not going to change my aspiration to the lofty heights of excellence in all I do.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
थे डूआटीण इन रेस्पोंसिबिलिटी एंड FREEDOM
The Education In Responsibility And freedom
One of the fundamental aims of education generally should be the training of individuals to develop a high sense of responsibility. People ought not be made to suffer or be expected to suffer because of the voluntary and often capricious, decisions of other people. For those who presume the right to act must accept the consequences of their actions. This, however, does not mean that we should not grant other our assistance in extricating them from their problems. We should help them only after due appraisal have beer taken of the circumstances surrounding their problems especially the exculpatory circumstances.
The education of people in responsibility and freedom, as well as the practical attitude that must be imbibed in the exercise of these, should be well adjusted so that it will not serve as an inhibitory factor in their exercise. By bringing out the time sense of freedom and responsibility we do not by any means intend that people should completely abdicate or cede away their freedom to act to others, so that others, not them selves, may be held responsible. This evil has to be guarded against.
The way to counter balance this two extremes of irresponsibility (that is the irresponsibility stemming from callous disregard of the consequences of our freedom) and that emanating from a total abdication of responsibility by tacitly away right to others, should be to provide much knowledge and information as well as an elaborate programmed of cultivating the rational faculties of individuals
One of the fundamental aims of education generally should be the training of individuals to develop a high sense of responsibility. People ought not be made to suffer or be expected to suffer because of the voluntary and often capricious, decisions of other people. For those who presume the right to act must accept the consequences of their actions. This, however, does not mean that we should not grant other our assistance in extricating them from their problems. We should help them only after due appraisal have beer taken of the circumstances surrounding their problems especially the exculpatory circumstances.
The education of people in responsibility and freedom, as well as the practical attitude that must be imbibed in the exercise of these, should be well adjusted so that it will not serve as an inhibitory factor in their exercise. By bringing out the time sense of freedom and responsibility we do not by any means intend that people should completely abdicate or cede away their freedom to act to others, so that others, not them selves, may be held responsible. This evil has to be guarded against.
The way to counter balance this two extremes of irresponsibility (that is the irresponsibility stemming from callous disregard of the consequences of our freedom) and that emanating from a total abdication of responsibility by tacitly away right to others, should be to provide much knowledge and information as well as an elaborate programmed of cultivating the rational faculties of individuals
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
THE ळींईटाटीण्श्र ऑफ़ थे श्रीण्टीई वर्ल्ड-VIEW
THE LIMITATION OF THE SCIENTIFIC WORLD-VIEW
All our perceptions of the world (reality) are relative hence incomplete. We cannot, due to the nature of our mind (perceptual and concentration mechanisms) know the whole of reality, but we can rather know only parts of it. Even the parts we know, we do not know completely or as they are in themselves, but as they are created, through the mediation of the senses, in our mind.
The foregoing goes on to support the thesis that the world-view provided by science is not complete, hence cannot be taken as the whole picture. This is thus, since there is no ground to support. Therefore, science can never provide any categorical statement as to what reality is in itself or what it is ultimately comprised of.
According to scientific definition of knowledge, knowledge is the product of a consciousness that is repeatable through verification by other researchers engaged in the same pursuit. Repeatability here presupposes that the content of this consciousness are observable data commonly known as facts. Facts are observable because they are amenable to concrete verification through the direct mediation of the sense and ,indirectly, through specialized instruments.
Given, therefore, that things can be understood not by themselves but through reference or in relation to other things, the fundamental assumption of science that the universe is material cannot be justified to the extent that other realms of experience can be disregarded.
Hence, we can, based on the dialectical nature of reality and its relativity, assert that there is an incorporeal order of existence analogous to the corporeal one, and that the two realms mutual affect each other through ways we are yet to fully understand.
All our perceptions of the world (reality) are relative hence incomplete. We cannot, due to the nature of our mind (perceptual and concentration mechanisms) know the whole of reality, but we can rather know only parts of it. Even the parts we know, we do not know completely or as they are in themselves, but as they are created, through the mediation of the senses, in our mind.
The foregoing goes on to support the thesis that the world-view provided by science is not complete, hence cannot be taken as the whole picture. This is thus, since there is no ground to support. Therefore, science can never provide any categorical statement as to what reality is in itself or what it is ultimately comprised of.
According to scientific definition of knowledge, knowledge is the product of a consciousness that is repeatable through verification by other researchers engaged in the same pursuit. Repeatability here presupposes that the content of this consciousness are observable data commonly known as facts. Facts are observable because they are amenable to concrete verification through the direct mediation of the sense and ,indirectly, through specialized instruments.
Given, therefore, that things can be understood not by themselves but through reference or in relation to other things, the fundamental assumption of science that the universe is material cannot be justified to the extent that other realms of experience can be disregarded.
Hence, we can, based on the dialectical nature of reality and its relativity, assert that there is an incorporeal order of existence analogous to the corporeal one, and that the two realms mutual affect each other through ways we are yet to fully understand.
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