In pursuit of...
February 7, 2013 at 1:07 am
(This post was last modified: February 7, 2013 at 1:22 am by JDFlood.)
I have always questioned things. I realized what people said and did was vastly different in my early teens. In high school my school had a philosophy class actually taught by teacher with a PhD in philosophy (late '60s). I minored in Philosophy in college and fortunately got a degree in geology (so I could actually get a job) and became a geologist for ten years. I never really got beyond metaphysics and epistemology because I just felt no one had got the underpinnings right. If the foundation of their philosophy was wrong, then it all was, so no reason to go further. I never bought religion, never made sense. When I read James Michener's "The Source", it was no revelation, I just go, "yah, good, nicely put, all made sense to me. Man created God in his own image. Anyway, got a Masters degree, but I constantly worked on figuring out how to look at the world that did makes sense. Over time, realized that understanding consciousness and evolutionary / developmental psychology was the right approach. The brain is object oriented, you can't just sit in a room and think your way to figure out we exist and what we can know. Although, I am fond of "I think therefore I am". But it is really just a good slogan. Being a scientist at heart I have done a lot of observing and processing, and have made a lot of progress in "intuitively" understanding consciousness, who / what I am, understanding the profound influence our animal nature has on us. I have read a lot. I realized it would be good to now compare where I am at with other folks that think about these things… I quickly realized I would have to go to places with Atheists, since if you haven't got that one right, your off in another reality and there would not be any reason to listen or discuss anything. So, I guess that is the thumbnail. I'm interested to see if some discussions help connect some of the disparate conclusions I have floating around in my mind. If there is one thing that has always fascinated me, it is truth. How to get there… it is so illusive given our origins. JD
JD
