"I'm not an extremely consistent person, because I don't think that's real. No one is consistent. I was studying alot of philosophy and thought inconsistency was the root of all evil. I believed Socrates, he was my hero. I believed Plato and calls for pure reason. There is no such thing. Pure reason knows nothing of your heart; it knows nothing of the world. So, pure truth deducted from pure reason is just an abstract idea; it's seperate of your body. We life in the world, you know, so we can be naive and wise at the same time, flirtatious and innocent at the same time. All of these things, that is very human... That's not bad. we shouldn't try to take the mystery out of things through science. That's what's magical about people. About writing. About being human."
This got my brain running. Perhaps we do too easily divorce truth from reality. We seek truth in the abstract when it is only significant in the concrete. Our logical deductions are very often devoid of power to speak real life and the pathos of human existence. And this may well be the reason for current tensions in society and the world; persons searching for a meaningful truth that has not been stripped of truth or robbed of power. In the Christian tradition, the apostle Paul spoke of this I think, "They will be rash, inflated with self-conceit. They will be lovers of vain amusements rather than lovers of God. Although they hold a form of religion, they deny the the power of it." We often have grand theological answers, but are we changing the world? ourselves? Has the church accomplished anything truly world changing in the last one hundred years? Or have we just preached and postured, pressuring others to embrace our position while having nothing to prove the reality of our proffessions? It's a challenge to my life philosophies, something that I will have to consider.