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Comment on Humanism as Worship by Karim

Karim — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:43:08 +0000

That’s it. I’ll be the Lady Gaga of philosophy.

I leap from point to point in these entries without much sympathy for explanation. I know it can be pretty dense, but usually these blog writings are more for personal reference for when I finally decide I’m ready to publish anything, at which point I’ll try to make my writing as accessible as possible without losing the point or poetry of it.

Comment on Humanism as Worship by Ethan Rocke

Ethan Rocke — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:00:25 +0000

Think of it like this: If Fever Ray sold out and started making really good pop, maybe everyone would suddenly love her on the same scale as, say, Lady Gaga. That’s what I want you to do — sell out so dumb people want to listen to you too.

Comment on Humanism as Worship by Ethan Rocke

Ethan Rocke — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:53:46 +0000

Or maybe you wouldn’t “express yourself better,” necessarily. Rather, you would make your ideas more accessible for dunces like me.

Comment on Humanism as Worship by Ethan Rocke

Ethan Rocke — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:40:18 +0000

I find it somewhat troubling that all too often your prose is to me what Kant’s is to you. In plain words, absolutely exhausting.

I don’t intend that as the inane mockery you’ve come to expect from me; I mean to say that either I am too dimwitted to navigate the electric complex of your restless mind, or you need to attempt to write in a language more digestible for the Everyman. That is unless you’re comfortable with only a fraction of humanity being able to weather the storm of your dense prose to arrive at the fundamental ideas. If it’s all about you, by all means, continue using a collective pronoun to refer to God (etc.).

I think what you said here is that God wants us to be good, and your version of being good is to live to our fullest potential for the sake of human progress, rather than our self interest. There’s some sentiment in there about humanistic spirituality. Or something like that. If I could muster the energy to reread this, I might be able to walk my rounds in closer to the black, but I’m gonna call it good and settle for a Kentucky-windage interpretation.

So to be clear, what I’ve tried to say here is simply this: Can you write dumber please? I think you would express yourself better in doing so.

Just my take.

Comment on We Who Shun Chaos for Community by Mitra

Mitra — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 06:11:58 +0000

wonderful writing mi amigo.

Comment on We Who Shun Chaos for Community by Noemi

Noemi — Mon, 24 May 2010 04:01:31 +0000

Very good writing though.

Comment on We Who Shun Chaos for Community by Noemi

Noemi — Mon, 24 May 2010 04:00:45 +0000

That’s my boy! Let me know if u decide to do it, so I can make a room for you when you get back.I guess I’ll have that daughter I wanted in that foolish girl who entices you to go for it…

Comment on The Human Nature of God by Karim

Karim — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:16:44 +0000

Renee, I need to find myself one of you.

Comment on The Human Nature of God by Renee

Renee — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:05:48 +0000

I enjoyed this. I find myself plagued by the similarities in popular religions that you mentioned above. If the ultimate good is in these religions, it seems to be masked by the absence of truth. And “good” can really only be measured by truth; if something never existed to begin with, how good can it be?
This is why I find myself distanced from Christianity. I read too much. Maybe I should reread Doctor Faustus and take a lesson.
Good post.

Comment on The Human Nature of God by Karim

Karim — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:55:04 +0000

Yeah, I have faith in the metaphysical God, and I believe something exists outside of the physical world. But I think the epistemology of our metaphysical constructs is flawed in that we think we can have faith not only in the unseen but also in the form of the unseen: what it thinks, what it believes, how it looks, etc. It’s in our nature to define things, so I’m not knocking what we view as God, but I believe that our conception of God is closer to what we want to believe than what actually exists.

I think there’s a beauty in our anthropomorphic God, because the characteristics we’ve applied to him are mostly noble and enlightened, which in turn paints a pretty picture of what it is we hope to someday become.

I’m not arguing that God doesn’t exist, but that our depiction of him most likely has less to do with reality than an ideal we’ve created in order to follow. If we analyze all the world’s most popular religions we find similarities in what every culture sees as the ultimate good, and it is in this conception of good that we can find something true, perhaps regarding the qualities of God, but primarily (and more importantly, in my opinion) regarding the qualities of man.