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Post by Emperor AAdmin on Dec 29, 2007 3:30:25 GMT -5
AAdmin (1/8/06 5:00 am) Re: Philosophy as the only true religion!One view on how non-European Abrahamic dogma spread in Europe is also to be found on our forums under bellow thread (thread that was obviously made with much attention to detail to make a stronger emotional impact - which it did on me a while back once I first read it). CHRISTIAN PERSECUTIONS AGAINST THE HELLENES!!! With this dogma taking over Roman Empire Europe entered Dark Ages (one thousand years of intellectual darkness) which lasted until Renaissance when ancient greco-roman ideas started resurfacing in spite of dogma's often violent opposition. If there was no Dogma in Europe I believe that Europe would have been far more advanced culturally and even more so technologically/scientifically (and overall intellectually) then it is.
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Post by Emperor AAdmin on Dec 29, 2007 3:32:57 GMT -5
Leinarius (1/11/06 9:33 am)
Re: Philosophy as the only true religion!
Philosophia Philo-sophia - the love of wisdom...
Wisdom is the foundation stone of the "abrahamic" religions. Monotheism is chiefly a religion that employs wisdom and wise men. The rejection of monotheism for the sake of so-called domestic polytheism just because it is domestic - "european" seems to me to be a shallow thing.
The idea that faith is a simple self-induced illusion to help people get by with their life-issues is laughable to me. This is clearly something that only someone who does not know what true faith is about would say. Maybe many who call themselves believers would give you that explanation, or you see people who call upon God only when they're either miserable or very happy... That is not true faith, at least that is not the whole expression of it. But consider monks who spend their entire lives in prayer and who live cleanly and peacefully... What do they gain in this world by their choice? Is their faith one of a contract-type?
True faith is acknowledging God, in the first place, being aware of His existence. Not as a more important Santa Claus, who grants you wishes, but as God, as He Who IS.... That is in every man, the ability to have access to this revelation, because it is a revelation.
This struggle of some people to find by the ways of reason a path to explain God away is laughable... How can a being that is created dismiss it's Creator? You can only turn your back and CHOOSE not to acknowledge Him, but nobody will ever be able to dismiss God. Because He IS...Whether men choose to know Him or not, He still is...
As I said, the first thing that one must do in the ways of understanding faith is to acknowledge God.
Attempts to glorify the so-called "humanism" i.e. to believe in man and his work are harmful to the humankind itself... Man can not surpass his condition as creation of God, he can not transcend to become like Him.
The so-called great accomplishments of man are mainly due to talent, plus the true human ability that is hard work, but talent is something that is given at birth, which humans do not have ways of creating. Glorifying man for something he does not make himself is wrong, a simple lie.
Saint Paul used to say when people thanked him for the good he'd done them or for the miracles that were performed that he and the other fathers were men, simple men who only for their faith should be appreciated, because the miracles are God's work.
True faith is about being aware. Philosophy can not ever be anything like the faith... Faith is the wind that opens the doors that allow man to glimpse at the splendor of the Almighty One. Philosophy is the tool of the human kind which analyzes human reason. It has become preoccupied with forms and notions, and misses the true issues, anyway.
Their natures have become more and more divergent. The reason for that is that the mind is not the only tool you need for understanding.
Making philosophy a religion means worshiping ourselves... I don't know about you, but I am not satisfied that this is truthful or natural.
Apa trece, pietrele raman.
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