109) When we are listening to the awe inspiring beauty of a Gregorian chant, or when we are experiencing the extraordinary quality of the atmosphere inside a Gothic cathedral, we can sense whatever Truth there may be in religion. When we talk and argue about religion, or boast about how religious or irreligious we are, that Truth is lost to us.
110) If our interpretation of truth allows us to feel superior to others then that truth will always fail us.
111) Believers should question their beliefs, atheists should question their atheism and agnostics should question their agnosticism.
112) You may have won the argument but if in having done so it feeds your vanity and pride then the winning of the argument has no value whatsoever.
Wednesday, 17 July 2013
Thursday, 11 April 2013
Philosophical Musings 105-108
105) We rarely find solutions by thinking as we ordinarily think. We may come closer to a solution by questioning all our assumptions and opinions, by questioning not only what we think but how we think. Furthermore, we also need to feel actively and to feel actively is a long way from the kind of defensive and negative emotional reactions which form too great a part of our emotional lives.
106) Until a man understands everything he has neither the right to deny the existence of God nor the right to explain to others whatever his delusions might tell him God is.
107) Organised religion very often tends to think of vinegar as wine.
108) To say sorry from a genuine sense of remorse is a thousand times more difficult than saying sorry because it is expected or demanded of us.
106) Until a man understands everything he has neither the right to deny the existence of God nor the right to explain to others whatever his delusions might tell him God is.
107) Organised religion very often tends to think of vinegar as wine.
108) To say sorry from a genuine sense of remorse is a thousand times more difficult than saying sorry because it is expected or demanded of us.
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