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| So, I'm it again, eh?
I have to be at work in less than eight hours. I'm about as coherent as a drunkard on melatonin, and I'm an emotional mess because my family members, at times, seem to have no common sense at all. Let's do this shit!
Actually, before I start, I'll tell ya what. This philosophical discussion gave me a reason to re-add xanga to my bookmarks.
The last time I made a risky decision was last night. No, really. The reason I did it was because you only get to live once, and by God if I'm going to eventually die, this life is going to be one that has enough experience in it that when I am on my deathbed, I can look back on my life and be content with it.
If you're going to consider reason to be where new ideas begin, then I'm going to agree with your macro-level ideas. That there needs to be more reason. I really had considered that more ingenuity than anything, but now that I think about it, it takes a lot of reason too. I looked at reason as sort of a, "let's decide between the given options" before, but it could definitely be a sort of, "let's decide the best way to do this, regardless of the options". If the second one is how we're defining it, I'm all for reasoning. Woot reasoning. +1 bags of reasoning, all around.
With reasoning whilst leaping over the chasm, in our analogy, then reason and logic are sort of just finding the best way to leap. Faith and honor fall more into the category of stepping into the chasm and expecting there to be something under you when you put your foot down. That might be why someone like me is willing to try new things.
I guess my only gripe now is you need to learn how to believe more. I mean, under reason and logic, you can't know anything, not really, anyhow, but that's no way to live, never believing anything. With honor you can know yourself and with faith you can know things. I mean, sure, I acknowledge the fact you can't know anything except for, arguably, your own existence, but with faith I do believe in things being true, which is damn near close to, and effectively, knowing at a personal level. You know yourself enough, man. You know your personal limit as well as, if not better than, I do, but if you're ever gonna tap into the huge number of possibilities that each day has, then you're gonna have to have faith in the day and try some new things.
I'm tired, and this is the best I can do, but I think I got my point acrossed coherently enough that Adam can get it.
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| Adam had a post about reason, so I have a post about keeping your dreams, 'cause that trumps reason sometimes in my book. I was pondering it, then I was reading about it, then I was discussing it, so I need some sort of continued progression here, right?
We live crazy lives people, sort of. Each day we have the possibility to create a day we've never had before! On top of that, the possibilities for what this new day can be are pretty much as endless as what you can imagine. Instead of doing this thing where we have a new day, we just live the ones we had before over. We let this fear of shaking things up keep us from changing our lives towards something new, phenomenal, and exciting. We use reason in a way we shouldn't to convince ourselves that it's the right thing to do, but why? So that one day we can fit into a mold? So you can be part of a homogeneous society that doesn't care about you? So you can keep the faith of people that would end up backing you up?
Someone once said, and I completely agree, "FUCK. THAT. SHIT."
Now, if you're not going to move alongside me to a tomorrow that isn't today or yesterday, come now. Otherwise, I hope someday I see a you willing to have dreams again, and until then, I expect you to applaud as I pass you by.
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| I have a new way to get myself to do something.
I put myself in a situation I don't want to be because I'm such a scardey-cat. Then I just think how short life is. I realize how much think I've done and how much acting on that thinking I haven't.
I figure, that at least to a degree, let the mind go and the body will follow.
Have fun.
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