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This is a place for one's own philosophical writings, and the discussion of them. I will post my own here, others can post theres as well.

Since I already have one of my writings up, just check it out, it's Never, Always, and Truth.

This is from my thread, actually the first post. Check it out here



"Errare humanum est", which means that it is totally humanly to make mistakes in latin is a true statement. But even though it is humanly to make mistakes, people often don't realize that they are making any. Isn't stereotyping; being hypocritical; being shallow, greedy, selfcentered and selfish just a big human "mistake"? Yes, we can prevent acting in that way, but the question is: Do we want to? Most people don't even realize that they are acting this way. What about hurting other people physically (through violence) and psychologically (through words)? Often we don't realize (more in the psychological way) when we hurt another person's feelings, but when our feelings are hurt the end of the world has arrived!? Even though I do agree that it is ok to make mistakes, I do not agree with making the same mistakes over and over again. History should have taught us a lot about human nature, but instead of seeing all the flaws that we can discover in the history of mankind and change ourselves so that we act differently, better, we might think, that we are already a lot better, that ancient people were backward and dumb, that things like the persecution of Jews and witchcraft etc. couldn't happen nowadays because we are so much smarter now. But is that true?

In my opinion religion is something that gives us a strict moral code which is good, but it is mixed up with tradition and sometimes it seems to me as if people find it more important to value the traditons (like wearing certain clothes, having certain feasts and food etc) than valuing life itself. In every major religion it says "you shall not kill", but the Crusades, the persecution of Jews and terrorism in the name of Islam all show us that religion, whose principals are mostly good, is often abused. it is used as an excuse for persecuting people who have other beliefs, it is abused for forcing your own beliefs on others. Aren't we all human, no matter what language we speak, in which country we are born, how big our family is, what religion we have (or don't have), what gender we have, what color of hair we have, how much money we have, what kind of education we have, what disease we have, if we are homo-sexual or not? Shouldn't someone who is not exactely the same way you are, have the right of life and happiness as well?

I am not saying, that we didn't learn from our mistakes in the past at all. Many countries do work on equality for everyone, valuing life for any individual. We have moral codes and laws, that give us certain rights like the right of happiness (as long as our happiness doesn't mean hurting or even killing other people and therefore constraining other people's right of happiness), the right of an own opinion and the right of own religious and political beliefs. We are allowed to choose our beliefs and that is a big advancement we have made. But unfortunately these rights aren't guaranteed in every country and even in countries where these rights theoretically are warranted, it is not how the world always goes.

The world is unjust. You can turn it how you want, but at the end you have to realize that this is the truth. Niccolo Machiavelli, a Renaissance thinker who analyzed human actions has said that "For imagination has created many principalities and republics that have never been seen or known to have any real existence, for how we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation. A man striving in every way to be good will meet his ruin among the great number who are not good." I think there is a lot of truth in his words. But does it mean, that we should act rather evil than good? I would say no because even after acknowledging this truth, we have to "fight" evil, we have to try to avoid our "mistakes" in order to change something. There will always be "bad" people, who don't see the value of life, who will manipulate others in order to find their own happiness even if that means to kill others or to hurt others. We need to learn to stick to a good sense of morality that values life in every form. I know that it would be foolish to believe, that the whole world, that every single person can realize that, but those few who can see all the hypocrisy, intolerance and selfishness should act accordingly. It doesn't change anything to moan about how unjust life is. We need to act! It is much easier to blame other people for our faults, our misfortunes than working on eliminating our faults and accepting our misfortunes. Sometimes it might seem as if the world is just a scary place to live where innocent people are punished for crimes they have never commited and where guilty people aren't punished at all because of the flaws in our Judicial Systems. It is impossible to delete every injustice, Utopia does not exist. But still it doesn't mean to give up. We have to try to do anything possible that makes the world as good as it can be and should be.

Puppet, you would get along really well with my friend Damian. 3nodding You two both act pretty similiar.

I think that morals are a rather lucrative term as well. Different people see different things as right or wrong. I personally see no problem with shoplifting, kids wanna get a thrill fine. Its not like they can steal anything too big, if they can, where's the good security? Other people see it as wrong, and will report it upon seeing someone shoplift. I see spending a night in jail a worse option for the kid, whilst other people see it as the best thing for them. I also see nothing wrong with spray painting a bridge or any other public property (public, not private stuff like cars and houses). It doesn't hurt anything, and quite frankly it can make something dull look interesting. Yet some people throw a huge fit over it and consider it detrimental to society. Since we all have different standards of what we consider right and wrong, its hard to tell whether someone is truely a moral person or not. Based on their own standards, they could be moral. Based on say a bible's standards, they may not be, but not everyone is Christian. As long as they hurting other people, or damaging major property I see no harm in a person's actions.

Grafiti, when done right (or at least to my likings), can look good, but, often times, I see no point in grafiti, and thus, I see it as stupid and pointless.

I, honestly, could care less about what people do, as long as they are willing to accept the consequences of their actions. If they cannot except them, they should not have done them.

I've seen some really kool graffiti. There's a little stoner bridge about 45 minutes from where I live where people go to get stoned everyday around 4. Anyway, they have some amazing graffiti there, most of its pretty trippy. I've seen some interesting graffiti around the city streets. Some are gang signs and marks, others are simply kids having fun.

I agree that people should be liable for their actions and not pin the blame on someone else or that they were "forced" to do something.. However, that's not to say that they shouldn't try to sweet talk their way of trouble if they can. ninja

I love this philosophy!

Soul Food

Everybody on Earth knowing
that beauty is beautiful
makes ugliness.

Everybody knowing
that goodness is good
makes wickedness.

For being and nonbeing
arise together;
hard and easy
complete each other;
long and short
shape each other;
high and low
depend on each other;
note and voice
make the music together;
before and after
follow each other.

That's why the wise soul
does without doing,
teaches without talking.

The things of this world
exist, they are;
you can't refuse them.

To bear and not to own;
to act and not lay claim;
to do work and let it go:
for just letting it go
is what makes it stay.
-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

It's so yin and yang. It completes the motion that there is light and dark within each other.

It still needs quite a bit of work to hold up against a philosophical argument.

It seems to me, like you are mixing both Holism and Idealism together, in a way that usually is not mixed together because of the roots of Idealism. Idealism, is mostly, at least to my knowledge, a philosophy that is easily complemented by relativistic, positivistic, and Cartesian Skepticism, the last of which is both the most readily complementary to Idealism and opposed to holism.

I'll see what I can do about helping you further develop your theory, but not right now...

Aristotle and his Poetics commands my presence.

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