Philosophy Supreme

Philosopher's stone and the serpent of alchemy from the 1622 edition of Philosophia Reformata by J. D. Mylius.

( FORTEAN PICTURE LIBRARY)

The acknowledgement of (or belief in, if you insist) one God empowers in life as well as in philosophy.

Philosophers who intellectually reach God - or to be precise: who reach the God conclusion - gain an incredible* advantage: they have only Him to explain, whle all the others - everything.




*not the best choice of word, this one; sophisticatedly credible or instinctively/illuminatedly# credible
would be an apter one.

#yes - I don' t think St Augustine has said his last word yet.

The Gift

One thing that strikes you after a moment's reflection on this the scene is that God isn't giving Adam life here, as it's often suggested, but love.

The Empire of Those Who ...... Care

Just one more thing before I go on a 20 mile walk along the local coast, stop at that southernmost crag of Wales and look towards Freedom: why am I takling to you or your neighbour, while you or him may not care in the least, not to mention read*, what I write?

Why? Because I fucking care!



*now, this is really an issue, so stop fooling yourself : it's something I'm not going to put up with easily. I'll write a separate post to you about it.


Picture from: hdwallpapers.in

Fit in the Truth

Does it fit in? Your questions sorted?

... just hang on - before you say anything silly: who said that the Universe, it's Creator and his message must fit into your small head?


And this is a crucial philosophical point: if the Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything were to fit into your head, would it not disqualify itself* the very moment it did fit in?

The very question is bigger than you, so how much more the Answer must be.




*unless it is actually 44.
(But then - yes, I know: you just can't kill the philosopher in me... - does 44 fit into our heads? What is 44? And how do we know it? Vico said - brilliantly and falsely** - that you only understand what you make. We may have made, say, mathematics - because it's not from nature***  - but did we make what we made it with and what we - to the degree we do - understand it with?)

**even if we assume we made history (which is only partly true, because part of history is our interaction with the inanimate universe and we certainly didn't make it), who**** made us?

***but did we really? Discover seems a better word, of course and maths will remain a mystery to humankind just as trigonometry will remain three of them - sines, consines and tangents - to me.

****'What' would be a fallacy: 'what' cannot make, 'what' can be a tool or material only.




Illustration: Frank Ordonez/The Post-Standard via syracuse.com

Love or death

Let it be a year of love*. Or it will perish.

(Like pagans, their time, their calendars and like the pagan us.)

*or of Jesus; if the two are not one and the same person.