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"The most merciful thing in the world, I think,
is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We
live on a placid island in the midst of black seas of infinity and it
was not meant that we should voyage far. Some day the piecing together
of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality
that we shall either go mad from the relevation or flee from the deadly
light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. Theosophists have
guessed at the awesome grandeur of the cosmic cycle wherein our world
and human race form transient incidents."
~H.P Lovecraft, "Call of Cthulhu"
Allow me to explain my personal beliefs. I am what is termed an 'empirical
agnostic'. The terms, as defined in The
Skeptic's Dictionary* are:
Empiricism is an epistemological theory [theory of knowledge]
which holds that the origin of all knowledge is sense experience. Often,
empiricism is contrasted with rationalism, an epistemological theory which
holds that the mind may apprehend some truths directly, without requiring
the medium of the senses. Empiricists tend to emphasize the tentative
and probabilistic nature of knowledge, while rationalists tend to be dogmatic
and assert they have found a method to discover absolutely certain knowledge.
Agnosticism is the position of believing that knowledge of the existence
or non-existence of God is impossible. It is often put forth as a middle
ground between theism and atheism. Understood this way, agnosticism is
skepticism regarding all things theological. The agnostic holds that human
knowledge is limited to the natural world, that the mind is incapable
of knowledge of the supernatural. Understood this way, an agnostic could
also be a theist or an atheist. The former is called a fideist, one who
believes in God purely on faith. The latter is sometimes accused by theists
of having faith in the non-existence of God, but the accusation is absurd
and the expression meaningless. The agnostic atheist simply finds no compelling
reason to believe in God.
*This site is not affiliated with The
Skeptic's Dictionary
I believe that the evidence for or against the existence of God is inconclusive
at best, and that the burden of proof rests on those who make claims in
regards to God's existence. This goes for believers as well as non-believers.
Neither one has any credible proof.
I believe that the existence of higher power/powers cannot even BE proven
at this stage of human development, let alone understood. The universe
and its components are so vast and at the same time so tiny that even
a glimpse into what may be guiding it would shatter the mind of even the
most enlightened human. To propose or deny such knowledge is arrogance
and at the same time ignorance of the highest order. We must remember
that human beings are not far removed from animals. The seeking of universal
truth is a quest best left to our successors, not ourselves. We may indeed
lay a path, but not destroy ourselves in the laying of it.
However, I am not concerned about finding said proof. Human beings do
not need God as an excuse to be decent to each other. Too often, human
decency gets lost and even twisted into hatred and evil in struggles over
religious political territory. I believe in evolution and the survival
of the fittest species. Human beings are, currently, all of one species,
homo sapiens. As such, we do not fight amongst ourselves because we are
different, we do so because we are the same and utilize the same resources.
However, the territories we range are far more vast than any other creature
on earth. Besides the need for food and shelter, we have intellectual
and spiritual territory to for and protect as well, as well as political
and social barriers.
Religion is not necessary for the enforcement of moral code. As you will
read in documents I have written in other sections of the site, this is
a function of law, which is the objective codification of moral tradition.
Almost every religion or belief system on Earth has positive aspects and
tenets that can be applied objectively for the betterment of everyone.
We cannot rely on what is likely a non-existent entity to guide our actions
or to forgive us for our wrongdoings or misgivings. I believe that humans
have a built-in 'moral compass' that we have developed as a survival instinct.
Like many of our instincts, it is stronger in some and weaker in others.
I believe that the universe itself is infinite and has always existed.
The 'Big Bang' theory is almost as hard an idea to buy as the Judeo-Christian
theory of Creation itself. All events, including the creation and evolution
of life on earth, have come about as the result of unforeseen and unforeseeable
natural processes overseen by no higher intelligence; it simply happened.
For the sake of brevity, I believed that many if not all forms of religious
thought and systems, from the most rudimentary to the most complex, were
created in attempt to give the trivial human life some form of meaning
in context to the mind-numbing vastness of the cosmos itself.
I believe in both objective and subjective reality. Objective reality
is the concrete world around us and us ourselves. The whole of objective
reality is a balanced and self-regulating formulation of ever-changing
events over which little except the universe's more advanced sentient
species and the processes themselves have any direct control. As humans,
we like to pretend that there is some force/are some forces guiding the
vast machinery which keeps these processes in motion. I do not believe
in that, although I believe that the accuracy and timing of the processes
would be the best argument for higher intelligence/s. I will stay away
from this subject for now, as I am not a scientist. I have recently been
lambasted by rampaging mobs of respectable physicists concerning my thoughts
on chaos and entropy as presented in Agnosticom Version 1.0. You can read
about my thoughts on these matters in the 'Nature of Law' essay, accessed
below.
Subjective reality has everything to do with our perception of objective
reality, which can often be skewed. People perceive these processes and
their ends in vastly different ways. Many see the wonder, the splendor
and the majesty of it and cannot help but attribute it to an entity far
greater than themselves. Others could care less about it; they've bills
to pay. People such as myself are utterly fascinated by it and love to
simply contemplate the vast complexity of it. I believe that the experience
of subjective reality is the most critical to the empirical agnostic,
or to anyone for that matter. My credo is 'Experience is not the best
teacher, it is the ONLY teacher'. All knowledge, including knowledge itself,
is derived thereof. Everything that happens to us in life is filtered
through our perceptions, regardless and often in spite of the impact those
experiences have on our objective forms.
I hope you find the information presented in this site valuable. I welcome
any comments or criticisms you might have to my personal email.
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