This blog is the result of my search for something to believe in. You may feel it is ridiculous or that it is profound. However you feel about it, I hope you will consider it with an open mind.
It will definitely be a different way to look at life, and, even if you don't agree with me, I hope it will spur you to look deeper into your own value system.
The first challenge was to cut through the conflicting values, information, and fog of modern life and use logic and common sense to track back to the original concepts (or "givens") that a philosophy can be based on.
From there, the next step was to proceed with logic and common sense from the "givens" and attempt to...
1. Reconcile religion with reason
2. Recognize and reconcile the conflict between individual and group
3. Identify a "Universal Morality"
The purpose of the "Poor Mans Philosophy" is to provide a means to visualize and understand how God (or not), Man, mind, morality, religion, politics, and government can work in harmony. Far too often, the differences between these pull us apart instead of bringing us together.
So, I want to start off with the three "givens" of my philosophy. It took a long time to get to these building blocks, and I will go into more detail as to how I got there, and what it all means, in later posts.
For now, let's just say that I believe that each of these three blocks can be accepted by the religious (who can believe that a Creator designed life this way), by atheists, agnostics, and evolutionists.
Block #1 The basic nature of all other life is also the basic nature of Man
Block #2 The mind is the arational tool, through which Man confronts the
real world and attempts to place it in a rational system. To
accomplish this, Man must be able to recognize whether he is
thinking rationally, irrationally, or arationally, and to direct his
behavior accordingly.
Block #3 The disconnect between the nature of life within each individual
and the moderating nature of the mind is at the root of all conflicts
within the individual. It is also at the root of the conflicts within
morality, politics, religion, economics, and government.
At least two of the three "givens" might strike you as crazy. You've probably never heard anyone talk about this before. Please, keep an open mind. Try to reason backwards from your current beliefs to their origins, and try to find the pillars that form the basis of your life.
Hang in with me as we discuss the three building blocks of the philosophy in further postings, and follow the direction in which each premise leads us.
