Friday, August 30, 2013

My Philosophy

       When I was a little boy, I pondered at the questions Philosophers, religious leaders and great minds alike had thought of on life: Who am I? Why am I here? What is a human being? How does this world work? These questions have led to a huge variety of answers. From subjects such as religion, history, science, and philosophy, human beings tried to decipher something so broad into areas of knowledge. It is knowledge that has always occurred in the passage of time. Since man learned to reason, the earliest and simplest invention of the early humans drastically took mankind to the state where anything was possible. Not only was reason a critical factor, but also creativity.  The human mind relied on learning. Learning relied on knowledge.

            My theory on this world and all of existence is simple. In my life, all I have seen and experience has been always viewed as ironic. What I mean is that I see the irony in everyone and everything. Perhaps I am being bias and rather dimwitted, I have no proof and I am only relying on my own perspective not the whole. But it is in this reason that I have spot the irony in how people judge each other on whether it is not scientific or “popular.” You are following a system. Life is a system, a system where you are shaped by others and your environment. You think and respond to a human thinking system. You judge like most people. You have opinions and you have agreements.  You have a cumulative knowledge.

            Let me get to the point. Knowledge is an entity of its own. It is not just a word, it is a being. In religion that could be called god. Maybe it is. However, I am not trying to define a god. It may be a spiritual force or power that guides everything in the universe. Nevertheless, my whole message is to theorized this: 

Humans are biological organisms that have discovered knowledge. Knowledge is an entity or one being. There are no individuals as we may like see ourselves to be. We are but one part of knowledge. Everything we hear, taste, think, and feel is a result of experiencing knowledge. Without knowledge, nothing exists because there is no one to say or think there is something on this earth or say “what am I?”

Similar to what the French Philosopher, Descartes, once said, I say, true consciousness only exits from knowledge. That knowledge is the ability to acknowledge you exist. Therefore knowledge is existence. Think of this as how the playwright, William Shakespeare, had described life.  “All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances…”
My theory is that the world and everything are just props and stages. We are just characters living our role on the stage (life) has given us.


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