01-29-2013, 07:08 AM
I really don't take anything for granted. To get to the point... I wouldn't be surprised if a hole opened up and I fell in it, every time I walked outside. When I have faith, it's not that something is, but that something isn't. I have to have a strong faith that a hole won't open up, and so on.
I'm not Descartes. I don't like Descartes. I doubt his method of doubt. I doubt everything.
But I'm not a nihilist. And though I have faith that some things don't exist, I believe in them anyway. And that's not bad faith. It's just practical. And I'm not a very practical person.
Many people don't want help, they just want the prestige of being in need. And the opportunity to complain, or, on the other hand, to be helpers.
If a perfect human being constructed a perfect philosophy, I believe that he would muddle it up with flaws out of jealousy for his own perfection, or destruction, before anyone else had the chance to do it for him. And I think that's very humane. Faith always needs peril. And a selfless person is useless. A truly selfless person is like Christ without God. And nobody believes in someone like that, because it's not very interesting.
I'm not Descartes. I don't like Descartes. I doubt his method of doubt. I doubt everything.
But I'm not a nihilist. And though I have faith that some things don't exist, I believe in them anyway. And that's not bad faith. It's just practical. And I'm not a very practical person.
Many people don't want help, they just want the prestige of being in need. And the opportunity to complain, or, on the other hand, to be helpers.
If a perfect human being constructed a perfect philosophy, I believe that he would muddle it up with flaws out of jealousy for his own perfection, or destruction, before anyone else had the chance to do it for him. And I think that's very humane. Faith always needs peril. And a selfless person is useless. A truly selfless person is like Christ without God. And nobody believes in someone like that, because it's not very interesting.