So, the basis of philosophy and science is Asking Questions. And I found in college that the primary reason (at least for me) was to learn to ask good questions regarding "EVERYTHING" in life including spiritual things, psychological things, physical things, emotional things.
If you don't ask enough of the right questions how do you plan to survive your 20s anyway?
One's 20s take one from hopefully a good childhood with people who care about you sincerely to a way forward other than death either through suicide or war or self destruction.
Of course I'm speaking of this from mostly a male point of view because the psychology of women was always very different then men when I grew up in the 1950s. Now I'm not sure about anything. The fact that 63% of young men now are alone in their 20s is no surprise to me because of the insanity of the changes to the whole world now even though only 34% of women are alone in their 20s too.
Something is seriously wrong with the world with statistics like these. Somewhere humans have REALLY gotten off track to get here.
However, to the title point, I began to begin to heal myself from the things that absolutely didn't work in my life through at first philosophy.
I took philosophy courses at Palomar College starting around 1971 to 1973 and after taking and getting an A in all the philosophy courses I also began studying Psychology and Anthropology. By doing this I was able to figure out what was wrong with my life and begin to create a NEW FRED that could actually survive in the world as it is rather than the fairy tale world my parents believed in.
It's not that they were not sincere. They were. It was that they both (like everyone then) had severe PTSD from The Great Depression and World WAR II. That fucked everyone up beyond belief back then. So, no one was really okay after that until around 1960 when all the really fucked up people from all that had either died or killed themselves or their families or both.
Then it was sort of okay until boys started coming home from the Viet Nam War in boxes with flags draped over them again and that was after boys came home from the Korean War with Flags draped over them too.
But, for me, I didn't have to serve in the military or come home in a box draped with a flag or be homeless with PTSD on the streets ever since. In this I was very very lucky and I am always grateful to God that I was able to have a pretty good life and get married and raise children and start my own businesses and travel the world. I am very very lucky to have saved myself all the grief that so many others suffer with every single day of their lives until they die.
So, Philosophy is the key to all the sciences from using philosophic enquiry to rationally solve problems.
So, you can ask a question like: "Why does the sun come up in the morning" and instead of someone telling you that it is riding a Turtle across the sky or that earth is the back of a Turtle or something like this you know that the Sun doesn't circle the earth at all. Instead it stays where it is and travels through space and it is the earth that turns which is all what we learned from Science.
Whereas in religions it might be Turtles with the sun or the earth and other things that can be proven wrong by Science.
However, I must also say I was raised to be a Scientific Creationist by my father. But, I realized in college that Creationism and Darwin's theory were both ONLY theories and not Laws and so I evolved away from accepting either theory as the whole story.
This healed me a lot and allowed me to stay alive and be functional here on earth by giving up things too irrational to continue believing in.
So, the roots of my reinventing myself came from studying both philosophy and then Psychology where I began to see what the real roots of the problems I was facing were coming from.
And the roots of the problems came ALL from the unrealistic visions of relatives that go back thousands of years. They are likely all well meaning but were driving me towards self destruction always.
Once I realized this I could re-create myself with God and Angels help into a person helpful not only to myself but to all mankind.
By God's Grace
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