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Monday Jan 31, 2005

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One the most common things that one of my philosophy professors discusses is the conflicting set of commitments that people of Western culture hold about themselves. On one hand we think of ourselves on a humanistic level, in which we have free will and the ability to reason; feelings and a whole other manner of abstract and intangible things factor into the reasoning we use in this manner of viewing ourselves. Then on the other hand we view ourselves through a scientific lens (no pun intended) in which the human form, and every form for that matter, is assumed to be a purely physical object reacting to forces and in turn causing reactions in other forces (determinism is really hard to argue against). Thinking one way seems to invalidate thinking the other way, yet our schizophrenic culture still seems to hold both views as viable to some extent.

In a similar manner, I find myself in the same sort of philosophical predicament. Some days I consider myself a Buddhist, and other days I couldn't be more of a Satanist. As far as I know, there are no two religions (which are arguably philosophies more than they are religions) that conflict more than these, but I still feel a resonation of agreement when I contemplate either of their tenets. Pondering the conflicts and the shortcomings of either one also leaves me feeling as if I am chasing my tail, and it usually starts to seem as if I cannot reconcile them with each other, but the commitments to both still remain. Perhaps it is because dualism is so ingrained to people raised in the West from the time that we are born that our minds have started to take on a similar schizophrenic, jekyll/hyde framework.

Conclusion: inconclusive.
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kundalini:
Our whole society is paradoxical on every level. It's a dichotomy that forms the two legs of culture, the divine and the vulgar. Dominant Western society has seemingly always separated the two, keeping them distant. There are only a handful of seemingly enlightened people who can bring their spiritual beliefs safely into the realm of the physical world. Everybody else is just closing their eyes and humming really loudly so they can't hear the conflict that their own belief system depends on to in order to exist. EL SUICIDO LOCO

Really, a Satanist?
The upside down cross kind that couldn't exist unless christians were so fucking adamant that the Christ has come and gone and he's the same as God and that he hates our sins but loves us all, but only loves the righteous, and hates gays and free-thinkers and wishes that President Bush would create laws against any other form of happiness but the one his most fervent followers espouse...?
Or that other kind...?
Jeebus, there needs to be a devil smiley on here.... ooo aaa

[Edited on Jan 31, 2005 6:40PM]
Jan 31, 2005
holy_mountain:
What is Satanism about? The only think I know about it is that Marilyn Manson is a satanic priest and that Ozzy song "Mr. Crowley" hehe
Jan 31, 2005

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