With the end of the summer approaching quickly, I thought that an intellectual blog post would be very appropriate. In this blog post, I focus on the beliefs and myths that ordinary people hold and how these superstitions affect their actions and the outcomes of their stories. With this, I venture into more metaphysical and philosophical territory. Overall, I look to define the nearly-invisible border between reality (being real) and existence.
Throughout my quest for intellectual acquisition, I continue to uncover the mysteries that lie within the psychology of humanity. I have found various trends among humans, such as the ongoing battle between proponents of intelligence and those of intuition. With these noticeable trends come exceptions and dissimilarities, such as the fact that we all may be different in one context, yet identical in another. There are many questions to be asked with these findings. For instance, why do imprudent superstitions and unproven beliefs affect the actions of people and the path of history so profusely? I find it that people are very misled when it comes to fulfilling these arbitrary senses of satisfaction, the likes of which are based on their held fallacies. Overall, people confuse their consciences with an upper authority, one that is inadvertently created by society. By doing this, individuals sacrifice their intelligence and their senses of rationality. Fundamentally, these people are unable to separate reality from their beliefs. Subsequently, this lack of separation causes people and societal structures to follow an immense, unified, social perception. This imperial perception dictates many social, cultural, linguistic, theological, moral, and intellectual structures throughout any given society. This unified social "guidebook" is also the victim of every member (or idea) who is bold enough or gifted enough to have a serious impact on its dictation.
Allow me to go back to my statement regarding fulfillment through idiotic means. The reason for both purposeful and unintentional irrationality is for the fulfillment of a universal sentiment: satisfaction. There are no limitations or well-defined definitions of satisfaction, much like there is no universal definition or perception of beauty. Satisfaction can be gained through a plethora of resources. For example, some people fulfill their sense of happiness through knowledge. Others may find it in their system of theological or philosophical beliefs. The depth of the perception of a person's methods of fulfillment is dependent upon the angle by which (and by whom) these methods are viewed. For example, somebody who values intellectual and systematic ways over those of theology may perceive those methods to be arbitrary and unusual (much like I do). The difference between theology and a more systematic and technical subject (i.e. science) is that theology is an aggregate of values and upper authorities which are believed to be rightful and existent; science, on the other hand, is made up of statistically and experimentally proven data about an overabundance of subjects. Now, I could not say this truthfully without including the fact that science is also filled with fallacies and with unproven theories. The bottom line is that, in science, truth and conclusions are observed while in theology, truth and conclusions are hypothesized.
Universally, things are only real if they are observed and everything that is postulated exists. The locations of the objects or concepts that are real are observable: our surroundings. For example, I know that this computer is real and I know that this keyboard is real. The reason as to why I know that I am real is because of what you are reading right now: my thoughts, dictated by me only. Oppositely, the locations of philosophical truths are situated, not in the real world, but in metaphysical worlds. These worlds that are imperceptible by touch, sight, taste, and smell are not limited to thought. Instead, these worlds are influenced, grown, and restricted only by human ideas.
