tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post7832212689502602775..comments2023-11-03T07:07:55.456-05:00Comments on CoPhilosophy: First Installment: This I BelievePhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post-12208247937866297592016-12-06T23:38:06.573-06:002016-12-06T23:38:06.573-06:00Most of what you have said is one hundred percent ...Most of what you have said is one hundred percent correct. I also like to see the little things that come about and how they change my life I have seen first hand how a bad situation in my life ultimately changed it for the better. Often even good things lead to good things one good thing will happen and that will directly lead to another good thing happening and so on. On to your philosophy about peoples perception, I am a republican and obviously going to a institution of higher education I am surrounded by many democrats. I don't hide the fact that I am heavily conservative but it is also something that I do not bring up often because like you I have relised it is a pointless argument people will believe what they believe. I would ask you to maybe not go into a political argument trying to armed to disprove someone's belief but rather to just discuss it with them.Nolightisdarknesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11579648984185911059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post-74154828959256333982016-12-04T22:57:43.096-06:002016-12-04T22:57:43.096-06:00I go back and forth on the idea that "everyth...I go back and forth on the idea that "everything happens for a reason". I am a believer in God, and what I hear from most believers is not to worry too much about life because God has a plan and therefore, "everything happens for a reason". Now, I personally believe that some things happen for a reason. I think God intervenes for specific things to happen, like to meet the love of your life, or to make your alarm not work the day your office building catches on fire, or even smaller things that I could not comprehend the ultimate meaning of. I do not think that He plans out every single detail though. I can't believe that God plans to give people cancer, or that someone would accidentally hit a dog on the way home from work, or things like that. I simply believe that this is a world with people, cancer, dogs, and cars. And sometimes people get cancer and dogs get hit by cars. I believe that God will use whatever situation we are in to our and ultimately His advantage. So maybe everything doesn't happen for a reason in the grand plan, but God can use everything for His reasons. (H3)Terry Barkleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590138457584112989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post-55501793523689453112016-11-30T21:50:47.276-06:002016-11-30T21:50:47.276-06:00Of course everything happens for a reason (in the ...Of course everything happens for a reason (in the sense of being caused), but this doesn't make all the reasons good. Bad things happen. Deny that and you might as well join Candide and Dr. Pangloss and sing the praises of "the best of all possible worlds."<br /><br />I think we're inclined to notice and remember the small things that work out serendipitously (like oversleeping on the day class is cancelled) and to forget the ones that don't. We're selectively attentive.<br /><br />I'm hazy on how not challenging false and scurrilous statements can possibly make for a better world. We really can't all live in our own private reality bubbles and still pretend to be a civil society. We're entitled to our own opinions, not to our own facts.<br /><br />And yet, I do understand your Mom's distaste for arguing with intransigent people who aren't open to the real facts. Their improverished reality is rooted in perceptual blindness. The hard truth is that we're all afflicted by some blindness or other, and we all have to work at overcoming that. <br /><br />This Thanksgiving I was grateful that the kinds of conversations you report mostly didn't come up. So many of us nowadays "know" things that just aren't so. But that's a paraphrase from Mark Twain. What else is new?Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com