Possible Coursework Poem:
I cannot quench your thirst
Because even if you yearn for the truth, you refuse to believe in it.
I cannot quench your thirst
Because no such truth exists that you are in anticipation for.
But I still want to quench your thirst.
Because I am the one the that put you into the desert.
-Frederica Bernkastel
I think this say quite a lot in human nature and truth in general. People have a sense of self protection that always change their own perspective to keep themself from getting hurt to badly. Also, because of the dark base of human nature, people are naturally suspicious of others, because we often think that people only do things for their own gain, and is willing to manipulate people for reward. As a result we cannot trust each other, and thus truth is obscured.
Even if the truth of a person is wrong, in that person believe that is the only truth, then that person will always stick to his truth and never accept any other truth, because they believe so much in that truth. A devout christian will say that the truth is that his/her god exists and that is the only god, where as a hindu will say that that is not true, that there's in fact a myriad of gods. No matter how much evidence one side give to the other to prove them wrong, the two side will always believe that their side is correct (if they truly have faith in their religion).
A non-religious example is parents. Well, some of them anyway. You will notice that some parents, no matter what evidence is given, think that their son/daughter is the perfect, peaceful, model student that would never hurt a fly, even though it may turn out that their children is acting like total assholes.
Because we all believe in different 'truth's, the truth, as far as humans are concerned, is relative. The truth is different to every person. To a person, it is true that the drugs helps him, to another it is true that the drug is killing him.
The last paragraph, is a whole different matter, but I want to discuss that some other time, if ever.
I cannot quench your thirst
Because even if you yearn for the truth, you refuse to believe in it.
I cannot quench your thirst
Because no such truth exists that you are in anticipation for.
But I still want to quench your thirst.
Because I am the one the that put you into the desert.
-Frederica Bernkastel
I think this say quite a lot in human nature and truth in general. People have a sense of self protection that always change their own perspective to keep themself from getting hurt to badly. Also, because of the dark base of human nature, people are naturally suspicious of others, because we often think that people only do things for their own gain, and is willing to manipulate people for reward. As a result we cannot trust each other, and thus truth is obscured.
Even if the truth of a person is wrong, in that person believe that is the only truth, then that person will always stick to his truth and never accept any other truth, because they believe so much in that truth. A devout christian will say that the truth is that his/her god exists and that is the only god, where as a hindu will say that that is not true, that there's in fact a myriad of gods. No matter how much evidence one side give to the other to prove them wrong, the two side will always believe that their side is correct (if they truly have faith in their religion).
A non-religious example is parents. Well, some of them anyway. You will notice that some parents, no matter what evidence is given, think that their son/daughter is the perfect, peaceful, model student that would never hurt a fly, even though it may turn out that their children is acting like total assholes.
Because we all believe in different 'truth's, the truth, as far as humans are concerned, is relative. The truth is different to every person. To a person, it is true that the drugs helps him, to another it is true that the drug is killing him.
The last paragraph, is a whole different matter, but I want to discuss that some other time, if ever.
posted by Jinx at 6:13 AM
2 Comments:
It is incorrect to say Hindusium has many gods.
Hinduism
is considered a "polymorphic monotheistic" religion, meaning one god, the all powerful Brahman, takes different forms.
Yes, I know. It was a bad example but it was the only one that came to mind at the time.
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