Written by Mathew Naismith
Philosophy, as of any other thinking
process, is influenced by the environment the philosophy is influenced by; this
includes the knowledge and awareness that the philosophy is based or influenced by. A wise philosopher will never see
another philosophy created under another environment as being incorrect to
theirs; it's simply a different form of correctness based on the environment a
philosophy is created under.
A person I greatly respect, mainly due to
them being able to think right outside the square, outside normal human
conditionings, replied to me with the following in regards to my last post,
"Atheism Is Quite Correct."
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Reply
I wouldn't exactly say that some of your statements
are clear and unambiguous.
For many people Christ was the greatest philosopher of
all time because of His ability to explain spiritual truths in a way that
everyone can easily understand.
Christ often used simple stories called parables
to explain those truths using examples from nature like how a tree produces
fruit or how the weeds and the wheat must grow together until the harvest.
He also used examples based on human nature and
the interactions that occur between people like forgiveness and kindness.
My
Reply
A
very good point to bring up Jeff.
How
often is Jesus messages misunderstood or not understood at all? As of any
philosophy, expressing philosophy using a particular environment is fine to the
people who can relate to that environment, what about the people who can't
relate to that environment!!
I put
a Cambodian lass under my wing, I looked after her. This lass tried to
assimilate into our culture to the point of trying to become a Christian and
comprehend Christianity, she simply couldn't because the doctrines of
Christianity didn't relate to her Buddhist environment. As I explained to her,
her incomprehensibility did not make Christian doctrines and beliefs incorrect,
they were simply not correct for her within her present environment.
I also
find it difficult to explain the unexplainable, words are limiting in regards
to explaining about a consciousness way beyond the explanation of words. A lot
of my topics seem to go beyond the explanation of words at times.
If
you keep your philosophies within certain limitations, as Jesus did, using your
environment to explain what you are philosophising about is easy. Of course
even this, as history shows, can be incomprehensible to people of a different
environment.
Your
environment dictates what is correct and incorrect to you, what is comprehensible
and incomprehensible to you. The beliefs and doctrines that influence our
comprehensibility is an environment that is most often bias. We will naturally express
bias while influenced by a particular environment, this is human consciousness.
How bias and incomprehensible are rich people to poor people's dilemmas? This
is their environment which makes being poor incorrect.
What
I find interesting is that people of other cultures than a western based
culture, comprehend my writings a lot easier than people of a western based
culture. This is interesting because a lot of eastern philosophies include
short stories that relate to the environment.
When
I can or it is feasible or I think of it, I do use my environment to explain
where I am coming from, as I have explained, I find this difficult to do at
times.
Thanks
for trying to assist me by the way Jeff, always appreciated.
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I think Jeff wanted me to be more
comprehensible on topics like this, explain myself in simpler ways and in ways
that people relate to. If you can explain yourself in ways that people relate
to, for example making reference to the source of all creation is less relative
to most people than making reference directly to God, what you are explaining
about will be more comprehensible. Trying to relay anything that other people
in different environments are not conditioned to and comprehensible of is
always going to be difficult.
Example: Explaining Christianity to a Buddhist or an atheist is going to be
a lot harder than explaining about Christianity to a Christian and visa-versa,
again it's all to do with the environment we are conditioned to.
When I say that atheism is correct in
relation to there being no God, this is in relation to Buddhist (eastern)
atheism. Once you reach pure awareness, what then defines a God when you are
one with God, one with this state of pure awareness? However, the depiction or
perception of a God, of this pure aware state, while in separation of this
state of God, is to me paramount to our existence. There is simply no future in
separation from this source no matter what you call it.
You can always explain yourself better so
more people can comprehend what you are saying, what I actually focus on are
the people who are able to comprehend me anyway. As I have been for a lot of
people, conformation is always comforting; no matter how I explain myself these
people will always comprehend where people like me are coming from.
People like me don't need to reach more
people; we are simply conformation for a few people, not many people. I should
also say it's a two way street, I have myself received conformation in the way
I am thinking off of other people, it is the way it's meant to be.