The Flower That Shattered the Stone

Faith; the belief that one holds the ability to lift an eye to the sky and become conscious of whatever "Heaven" that beholds them. Reason; an explantion for the cause of belief. Logic; the art of reasoning which seeks to identify and understand the principles of demonstration and inference. Science; any systematic perspective practice that is capable of resulting in a prediction or highly predictable outcome.

The truth of the matter is the there is no "awe-inspiring notion" no "perfecting revelation" no "absolute truth" no "ultimate truth" and no "piniacle of the human understanding" of anything that anyone one has come across.

We are all consistently trying to understand the world that we encounter. And not once in any time period of life in human history has any one's notion of "absolute understanding" ever been correct....So why do we continue to believe that "what we know now" has any more epistemic access to the truth that what our ancestors had before us? It's because we are afraid...we are afraid to make decisions, we are afraid that we might be wrong; and so we pick the answer that is, for the most part, chosen for us already by default. Whatever is already acceptable is enough for us that cannot make up own minds.

Some of us may already think that they think for themselves, but even they "give" in to ideologies that are not their own. It is because that we are creatures that cannot survive on our own that we seek out eachother, it is why we march in the street, it is why we seek religion. It is safe to assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God loves and hates all the same people that you do.

It is not God that is Devine; it is the person, the people, the society. It is not Satan that is evil, it is people, persons, society. The most capable thing that people can claim that they are able to perform is thinking, creating ideas, defining the world. But take something as intermediate as seeing; seeing is something that most of do more constantly than we would claim; and even that we are not able to do that well.

How the individual percieves the world is how that same individual divulges the world. So, if a poet (St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquaines) or Philosopher, (Socrates, Decartes) or religious figure (Jesus, Mohammed) knowing that is the objective of the one protraying the "prophecy" that you believe the story; it likely moves them to convince the one in which they are telling.

Understanding people or how people arrive at any conclusion is how anyone in a postion of influence demonstrates their "vast" knowledge or understanding of people. Taking advantage of people that see only their egotistical responses as "correct" is the easiest way for any one personal, group, or entity to rule over them. And why is that, because in giving people soemthing that they can beleive in, you have given them a reason to follow you? If you are Just you will fulfill the needs of the peopel. If you're smart you'll use it to your advantage....if you're empathetic you'll use it for the benefit of everyone else; if you're righteous you'll use it to emody the public; and if you're diabolical you'll use the power that you've been granted to convince everyone that you are the only a messenger and that they should empower the "Great Beyond" through you in order to find Happiness.

"Every generation mocks the traditions of the old, but religiously follows the new" -- Henery David Thoreau