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"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."
--Hermann Hesse
The Anti-Matter God of Logic?
A conversation on a bulletin board turned a little bit tenacious one day and a fellow conversant dubbed me with the sobriquet 'Anti-Matter God of Logic' when I said 'The best is the enemy of the good."
Friends Haze McElhenny and Doreen Peri created this art and poem in honor of my coronation.
And for the terminally bored there are also excerpts from the actual conversation that started the whole bit; enjoy.
If you're having a hard time taking me seriously after seeing this picture -- good. Neither take yourself too seriously-- Night Hawke
People usually either love me or hate me.Those that hate me the most are usually the most like me. What's hard to believe is there are so many people like me. What a universe.
I am not a great philosopher nor do I pretend to be. I merely find I've written a number of essays on philosophical subjects and not for proselytizing. There is no need for me to do so. Merely to converse and explain, if to no one else then to my children one day.
I am also not a theoretical physicist but have studied the physical laws as an engineer. Theoretical physics was once called natural philosophy when Isaac Newton invented it and that branch of science still has a lot to do with philosophy.
If my views cause you to question your own then good. If they make you angry -- fine. If you agree with me - you're to be considered as dangerous as I.
"I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of."
-- Clarence Darrow
When I was in search of 'adulthood' I explored almost every philosophy and religion on the planet from the Dead Sea Scrolls of Wadi-Cumran to the ancient faith of Zoroaster and on East to the Tao, Buddha, and Confucius. I've explored the meaning of life from the aspect of science and theoretical physics -- but you won't find discussions of modernism, post-modernism, deconstructionist, and the like. I'm just sticking to the basics here -- for now anyway.
While I don't discount the importance of knowledge or the power of philosophy -- in my opinion there are very few answers to be had out there. That said, there are very few 'answers' writ in this bit of philosophy. But, hopefully, you'll come away with a few questions. Peace comes, I think, in learning to be comfortable with the questions and in being honest with yourself. It wasn't my choice to be agnostic for the purpose of antagonizing my neighbors who are conservative Catholics. It's just who I am and I'm comfortable with it.
If it antagonizes anyone it must be because they have problems contorting their religious faith into a shape that fits the cotemporary body of knowledge used to define reality. My questions and philosophy make them uncomfortable -- which is not my problem.
Below is a selected bibliography of a few of the more significant books I've read that have shaped some of my thoughts. I hope you'll enjoy them as much as I did.
Agnosticism simply means that a man shall
not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for
professing to believe.
-- Thomas Huxley
Bibliography:
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The American Religion, The emergence of the Post-Christian Nation -- Harold Bloom
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Any reference on world religions....
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Of course the primary texts of scripture
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A master who lived as a hermit on a mountain was asked by a monk, "What is the Way?"
"What a fine mountain this is," the master said in reply.
"I am not asking you about the mountain, but about the Way."
"So long as you cannot go beyond the mountain, my son, you cannot reach the Way," replied the master.-- Zen Parable