May 12, 2011

New goal, looking at one thing and seeing everything.

 “People will only hate you, not because of who you are, but because of what they are afraid of.”

My thoughts flow nicely in when I am in the shower…

This morning I was thinking about how when I first told people from church I was majoring in philosophy, there was a lot of cynicism because philosophy is apparently usually associated with atheism.  How ridiculous, I thought, for them to think that, when there is obviously a lot of reference to religion and trying to figure out God’s existence… Philosophy is not solely against it all.

But of course, I should not judge them.  It makes sense that they would only talk about the negative aspects, even if they knew the positive aspects.

“People will only talk about what they are afraid of”

Because they would not think it is important if it wasn’t something that you absolutely had to “watch out” for.

“People will only judge you not because of who you are, but because of what they are afraid of.”

But the “judging” that I refer to here is negative prejudice, obviously a judgment that they fear; and not a positive prejudice, which is still wrong, and is still inspired by fear (of the opposite concept), but they do not “judge” you in the sense in which we are against.

“People will not like you not because of …”

Condense “not like” to a smaller word

“People will hate you, not because of who you are, but because of what they are afraid of”

But I like the “judging” one better, especially since positive prejudice is also induced by fear… it may be misunderstood, but also people will understand from it what they cherish the most from it, or maybe they will challenge it because of who they think I am.  A situation in which its own quote applies.

So this is an example of how I come up with “philosophical stuff”, but this does not mean that you can follow the same “step process”.  I think it’s because this is only what happens on the outside of my thinking, I bet there is more to it, something I am not identifying.  Like the direction of my thinking, or the emotions that create the thoughts, or maybe the it is the “wanting to see how things”.