Saturday, 29 September 2012

Philosophical Musings 97 - 100

97) The true measure of a person is the quality of their Being and this is not necessarily commensurate with the quality of their intellect.


98) We cannot claim to have evolved so long as we lack a profound understanding, in the depths of our Being, of what causes us to be violent and drives us to kill. We cannot claim to have evolved unless we are able to uproot from within our tendency to be violent. We cannot claim to have evolved until we are free of violent thoughts, violent emotions and violent deeds.


99) There is no real intelligence in the parts of ourselves which are inclined towards hostile rejection or, conversely, naive acceptance of ideas for which we have only a few sketchy details. Intelligence is trusting in those parts of ourselves which are uncertain and that wish to keep questions alive.


100) "What is God?" is not a question that can be answered, especially with language that has descended into cliché as in "the Lord is my personal saviour" or "God is an imaginary friend". "What is God?" is a question that needs to be kept alive and in keeping the question alive we need to be free of every association, good or bad, that the word "God" brings to us.