I’ve been thinking about reality since early in my youth. In the fourth grade i was more concerned with “how do I know if the things that I am sensing in front of me, are really there in front of me?”. I think I have come across a so-far-satisfiable answer to that question.

I had a conversation with someone once about this. they said to me “would you put your hand on the table and use your free hand to hit it with a hammer?”. Like most people with common sense i said no, but then he asked me why.

We really only know and can make decisions based on what our senses tell us about what is going on outside of our minds, it is our only means of understanding the world around us. So far, we’re alive, so we must be doing something right.

Could you argue that we’re trapped in some Matrix-type universe? yes, but what would your point be? You’d have to use evidence from the world with our senses we use in this universe anyway. ;]

All we can do in the end is trust our senses, and make decisions based on what we know about this world the best we can.

yeaaaahhhhhh, for those of you gracious enough to follow me here on Tumblr, thank you, I have noticed that latly i have been very uninspired to blog lately due to lack of things to talk about(yes, i actually got bored of ranting about religion).

so what I have decided I am going to do id blog about philosophy in general, all kinds of philosophy, from absolutes, logic, moral, and of course, religion. So please look forward to seeing some new ideas here because I will be blogging more often now ^^ thanks

-The Infamous Prince of Doubt

I take great issue with faith. All it seems to do as far as I can see is cloud people’s judgment, in fact that almost is the very definition of the word. the Miriam-Webster online dictionary defines faith as : something that is believed especially with strong conviction; especially  : a system of religious beliefs and here uses an example of how the word faith is used within context — on faith : without question <took everything he said on faith>. Without question. It is this that we should be afraid of. This idea that people should unquestioningly obey God or believe in God whether or not there is evidence/evidence to the contrary, erodes the human capacity to use reason.

One reason that this particular concept is dangerous is because it closes off people’s minds to new religious ideas(or ideas in general). I have had conversations with many people who had claimed to had had faith, and they had told me even before we had started our arguments “I have faith, and so nothing you say can convince me otherwise”, from that point on it is meaningless to have a conversation about it and a waste of time if you are not willing to let your mind open up to create different views for yourself. It is selfish and not to mention rather silly to think one can proselytize without being faced with a different viewpoint. It’s the risk we take in entering an argument that you might just be wrong.

Secondly, if you are to believe in there being some form of spiritual entity on faith alone, then there is no point in proselytizing anyway because arguments are about using reason, which faith in itself can never co-exist peacefully with as clearly defined before. In order for one to use reason, one must ask questions, many many questions, and to be truly faithful asking questions is something that one cannot do.

There is no point in arguing reason with a truly faithful person because it is not reason that they have used to come to the conclusion that have arrived at. No matter what, they stay submerged in there faith. This is my issue with faith. It is the mindset that traps a human being within limited possibilities and damns us for as long as the wings reason and evidence have not unfolded. It is until that day that things will remain the same and people will not change.