What is is not what ought to be, the bridge cannot be built from what is to what ought to be.
Yet what ought to be is ingrained in us, though somewhat hazy it still haunts us.
Trying to grasp it with human effort, would we look back and lament "the road to hell is paved with good intentions?"
Some end up disillusioned and others choose to live in an illusion. But some find satisfaction in the transcendent.
Friday, May 15, 2020
Friday, May 8, 2020
Crazy thing that happened today
Hey, so a crazy thing just happened to me in the elevator. I went downstairs to grab some food, and got into the elevator on the way up with another guy. Apparently he was just going up 1 floor, I got a bit annoyed because why would you put other people at risk of getting VID19 when you could've taken the stairs? Normally I'm not a confrontational person, but maybe all this quarantine is messing with my brain and I just blurted out "why didn't you take the stairs?" and man did I get a mean tongue lashing, I will spare you of all the words not fit for children's television haha, no no, it's not funny, I'm still crying!
If you thought that really happened then psyche! You got bamboozled! For it was only a simulation in my head, haha, now you can take back your empathy or schadenfreud, and perhaps replace it with anger! Muahahahahhaaha! But I do wonder though, what causes people to judge something as dumb? Sometimes when we dissect the intuition of our judgements, we come to a different conclusion, but if we try to load everything under this careful/rationalistic mind then we will be paralyzed by the conclusion that we don't really know anything for certain. So in a way, trying too hard to be smart can make one dumb.
If you thought that really happened then psyche! You got bamboozled! For it was only a simulation in my head, haha, now you can take back your empathy or schadenfreud, and perhaps replace it with anger! Muahahahahhaaha! But I do wonder though, what causes people to judge something as dumb? Sometimes when we dissect the intuition of our judgements, we come to a different conclusion, but if we try to load everything under this careful/rationalistic mind then we will be paralyzed by the conclusion that we don't really know anything for certain. So in a way, trying too hard to be smart can make one dumb.
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Streams of consiousness in isolation
I need to write these thoughts down before they escape and I be driven insane trying to capture them again, and I'd love to hear what your thoughts are in the comments below (do people still use blogger? hahaha).
-Speaking of insanity, what happened to Jeremy Lin? The boy won a ring and disappeared.
-Struggling with sin may be healthy, apathy is always dangerous
-Remember the granddaddy of all fear? I'm talking about the paranoid expectation that something bad will happen
-The opposite of faith is not reason, but faith has at least 2 opposites - Unbelief and superstition. Unbelief rejects any sound reason for faith, superstition imagines the content of faith without building bridges of knowledge.
-CLOWNS! WHY DO PEOPLE FIND THEM SCARY?
-Probably not, openness is defined as the capacity to let things in, so the more open minded you are the more stuff you allow in/tolerate. Might get overwhelmed though
-But which side is in and which out? people who are in one ear and out the other are mocked as being dumb, but perhaps it's a good thing, especially in the age of information explosion. Too many fake news to filter out, too much distractions.
-A lot of charges against God can be resolved in the triune nature of God. Some may claim his demand for worship as narcissistic, but what if the 3 persons prop one another up as the object of worship? Similarity, God didn't have to make us to fulfill a need due ot loneliness, since he is the origin of community.
-Analogies! When are they helpful? I'm not sure, perhaps when the thing used by the analogy is more commonly understood, yet still capture the essence of the object being explained. But analogies are not helpful when the thing used to compare with the subject being explained are not alike at all, or, they are more complex and actually harder to understand than the subject being analogilized (did I just make up a word?). And it seems like all analogies for the triune God fail and and inadvertently end up becoming heretical.
- Why is it that we feel foolish when we realize the original purpose of our possessions has been replaced by the purpose of showing off?
-When it comes to rationality of our worldviews, atheists really are not better off than theists, all premises are trapped in the realm of probablility and possibilities. While atheists can claim theism is adding unnecessary parts to a worldview, theists will retort that atheists will fail to fill the human need for transcendence.
-What is it that cause us to be stuck in obviously foolish mindsets, which later by some revelation during self reflection or by external means, is dispelled so easily?
- Is Socrates a real person or is he just a figment of Plato's imagination?
-What makes good writing? How much do genres come into play? If we want to be creative and mix genres, which ones mix well? and how many can we mix together until it becomes too overwhelming for the human mind?
-Characters, plot. what is it like to not be bound by spacetime? characters in a novel only interact with the writer if the writer writes the interaction, thus breaking the 4th wall. Are we, then, transcending spacetime in reading and prayer?
-Speaking of insanity, what happened to Jeremy Lin? The boy won a ring and disappeared.
-Struggling with sin may be healthy, apathy is always dangerous
-Remember the granddaddy of all fear? I'm talking about the paranoid expectation that something bad will happen
-The opposite of faith is not reason, but faith has at least 2 opposites - Unbelief and superstition. Unbelief rejects any sound reason for faith, superstition imagines the content of faith without building bridges of knowledge.
-CLOWNS! WHY DO PEOPLE FIND THEM SCARY?
-Probably not, openness is defined as the capacity to let things in, so the more open minded you are the more stuff you allow in/tolerate. Might get overwhelmed though
-But which side is in and which out? people who are in one ear and out the other are mocked as being dumb, but perhaps it's a good thing, especially in the age of information explosion. Too many fake news to filter out, too much distractions.
-A lot of charges against God can be resolved in the triune nature of God. Some may claim his demand for worship as narcissistic, but what if the 3 persons prop one another up as the object of worship? Similarity, God didn't have to make us to fulfill a need due ot loneliness, since he is the origin of community.
-Analogies! When are they helpful? I'm not sure, perhaps when the thing used by the analogy is more commonly understood, yet still capture the essence of the object being explained. But analogies are not helpful when the thing used to compare with the subject being explained are not alike at all, or, they are more complex and actually harder to understand than the subject being analogilized (did I just make up a word?). And it seems like all analogies for the triune God fail and and inadvertently end up becoming heretical.
- Why is it that we feel foolish when we realize the original purpose of our possessions has been replaced by the purpose of showing off?
-When it comes to rationality of our worldviews, atheists really are not better off than theists, all premises are trapped in the realm of probablility and possibilities. While atheists can claim theism is adding unnecessary parts to a worldview, theists will retort that atheists will fail to fill the human need for transcendence.
-What is it that cause us to be stuck in obviously foolish mindsets, which later by some revelation during self reflection or by external means, is dispelled so easily?
- Is Socrates a real person or is he just a figment of Plato's imagination?
-What makes good writing? How much do genres come into play? If we want to be creative and mix genres, which ones mix well? and how many can we mix together until it becomes too overwhelming for the human mind?
-Characters, plot. what is it like to not be bound by spacetime? characters in a novel only interact with the writer if the writer writes the interaction, thus breaking the 4th wall. Are we, then, transcending spacetime in reading and prayer?
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