Soliloquies
If you ascribe to god a multitude of seemingly inconsequential and unconnected events, belie your own common rational thinking by rendering unto them a collection of conclusive thoughts in quiet self-justification, then what is attained? Would it not be solely a dark veil between you and that of rational thought? Can one so lost be found again? Could the mere thought of such a meaning not be rationalized to that of superstitious folly? Is it not possible that your belief in the deceiving power of existentialist thought is meant only to deceive yourself? Failure to understand, no rather, failure to truly need and desire to understand is not failing only yourself but life in its beautiful entirety.
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It takes but a mere attentiveness to the world around us, in which we breath, we listen, we dream, we live, to perceive the most desirable pleasures we are sorely denied. Those most selfish pleasures of thoughts without influence, without subjugation to the whims and wants of those who shape our world. Through mediums both prevalent and minute, the permeation of control saturates our very existence. Free thought? A fanciful idea. However that pleasant notion of uninfluenced perception and unbiased opinions forever escapes our utopic fantasies. As masses we mold our minds to fit the perfect die already set, faults certainly cast away. Most accept this reality. Upon few dawns the enlightenment of our endless cycle, but nearly always after their time has set. Their struggles and defiance swiftly suppressed, extinguished into an oblivion. We hope endlessly for those even lesser precious few who can break through, alighting our world with renewed life and thought, procuring within us a spirit and passion that cannot be crushed. And so we wait, patiently acting as we are bidden, puppets to others as much as they are puppets to us.
cite your source!! who wrote these? if it was you, then you should say so =p if it wasn’t you and you’re quoting them, you need to give their work credit! sheesh, you’d think i was a librarian or something!
hmmm…i thought with the title of ‘Soliloquies’ on my blog would be enough to say it was me. I’m not one to plagiarize and not give credit! I feel it would be weird putting – Mike Apostol after those though…would just “me” do?
Hey Mike how’s that book you are reading ? the one that is so eloquently written with deep complex thoughts?
Quite good Europe Buddy Sonia! I’m listening to it right now! Letting it influence my use of the English language =) And yes Sonia, for the last time, I actually did write these myself!
…and it is very well written mike!
Dawkins would be proud of your first thought. But do people truly appreciate life more by living rationally? Where do we draw the line? faith, love, mourning, fear, ambition….all these things are driven by irrational behaviour and in most cases we let them because it makes something in our lives seem important, obtainable, challenging. there should always be a need to understand them but would it be enough to change them?
Ahh Sonia, I am not against irrational thought completely though. It is important to recognize though regardless of our arguments what my father has said, what is irrational to one is rational to another and vice versa. Love, mourning, fear, ambition. I agree such irrationalities do indeed make our lives more rich, both emotionally and psychology, and though I wish to understand them, the understanding does not make me want to change them at all. However, I feel the blind faith in god is wherein the problem lies. (When I think rationally) Irrational thoughts for the need of god and to follow his word, or rather, what some ‘man of god’ with a personal agenda dictates, is what causes me distraught. I do not see the other irrationalities of life you cited as causing as much harm or evil as is done in the name of or with faith in god. It is solely against this that I object.