Questioning Knowledge, Love, and Truth

 

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”

-- Dr. Seuss

Why is the science of knowledge important?

There’s a science of knowledge? Sounds like something the Germans would come up with. Knowledge is important, and all this time I just thought we gathered knowledge and learned from it. Is there a science to wiping your butt? No, don’t tell me. I think I’d like to stay ignorant on that.

Do you want to think that you are good so you can deserve what you want?

I feel I deserve what I want because I’d have to be bad and immoral to get it. So, I’d have to think that I’m bad in order to deserve what I want. If I’m good, on the other hand, deserving something would rub being “humble” the wrong way.

Does God want us to deny our dreams, faith, and hope? Does God want us to deny our happiness and only live in misery?

God gave humans all they need to be successful. Humans create misery, for themselves and for others, and humans must learn from that misery. You have all the knowledge, dreams, faith, and hope you need to rise above misery. It is up to you to make the choice to continue to be the victim of whatever evil put you where you are, or to get on top of it. It is a choice.

Reader comment:  I agree. In my dysfunctional family, my mother did not want to work but used everyone in the family to benefit from them. This caused a lot of frustrations for those who were working to help support her and her deadbeat gambler husband. What is it you get in the end? Nothing but misery, and then she wonders why?

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied.
Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

-- Luke 6:21

Trust in the Lord, and do good;
dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.
Delight yourself in the Lord,
and he will give you the desires of your heart.

-- Psalm 37:3-4

Can you feel immense physical attraction and have the best sex in the world with someone, without feeling the love?

Isn’t “lust” the desire for “sex of a lifetime” with someone, and no commitment? I believe it is. I hope it is, anyway. I’ve lusted my entire life. I’d hate to find out I’ve been wrong as approach 70.

Why don't people tell the truth about telepathy?

Because they know what you’ll say.

Do we have to be searching to find the truth?

You only find something if you search, otherwise, you’re just lucky and stumble across it.

“I found goodness in the place that I once believed to be evil; and found evil in the place that I once always knew to be good! The truth is so far separated from where I thought it existed. It can be such a wild, unbound journey: the journey from the illusion into the truth. Some people take that journey, but more people don't.”

-- C. JoyBell C.

What kind of person turns everything thing they do wrong on you?

A lying little coward who can’t own their mistakes.

How do you sleep knowing that you are 40 and still poor?

Strive to be happy always, regardless of your circumstances. Whining and complaining aren’t going to help, and stress only makes you lose sleep. It is what it is until it isn’t, so you might as well be happy. The alternatives just suck.

When you are not telling the truth what are you telling?

Nothing.

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

-- Oscar Wilde

Why do people always blame you for your unhappiness and never the ones who put you through it?

Why do you stay around the people putting you through it? Life is all about you making good choices. Some of those choices are distancing yourself from drama, debt, anger, and those who get you involved in it. Evil can only come inside your house if you invite it. It can break in, but it's your choice to let it stay or throw it back out.

If you work for a boss you don’t like, why are you working for them? It is your choice. If people put you through unhappiness, why did you let them do it? It is your life and your choice.

People blame you because, most of the time, we choose what happens in our life, or we choose to let someone else make decisions for us, or we choose not to do anything about it. Our life is, in all reality, about the choices we make or don’t make. And, not making a choice is our choice to not make a choice.

Better for you to own your life and just strive to be happy always.

What is the initiative for the thought to think?

The thought doesn’t think, you think of the thought. The initiative will probably be found in whatever impetus drove you to think in the first place.

What is self-imposed nonage? How does one obtain it and what happens to a person that frees themselves from it?

Shit happens, and when it does, it is what it is until it isn’t. Why one would want to “self-impose” this on themselves, is beyond me. Maybe, rampant immaturity?

“Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere Aude.) "Have the courage to use your own understanding," is, therefore, the motto of the enlightenment.”

-- Kant Immanuel

What are some major problems and obstacles that need to be addressed in today's time?

How we vet the President of the United States.

Note to my readers:  I tried to publish this on the site that asked for it, but they won't allow it.  No big surprise, considering it's a liberal propaganda site.  I'm lucky to get half of what I'm answering published.

You have one option/choice. You can pick it, or give up your right to choose. Do you have one option/choice or two?

If you give up the right to choose, this is a choice. If you simply choose not to choose, this is also a choice. If someone forces you to let them choose for you, this is your choice to be forced into giving up your right. You have one option - to choose.

What are some of your regrets during your college years?

Oh, my goodness, I can’t remember all of their names.

“Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.”

-- Dylan Thomas

Editor's Note

(Re: disclaimer cum "get out of jail free" card)

Before you go getting your panties in a bunch, it is essential to understand that this is just an opinion site and, as such, can be subjected to scrutiny by anyone with a differing opinion. It doesn't make either opinion any more right or wrong than the other. An opinion, presented in this context, is a way of inciting others to think and, hopefully, to form opinions of their own, if they haven't already done so. This is also why, occasionally, I will present an "opinion" just to stir an emotional pot. Where it may sound like I agree with the statements made, I'm more interested in getting others to consider an alternate viewpoint. 

It is my fervent hope that we keep open and active minds when reading opinions and while engaging in peaceful and constructive discussion, in an arena of mutual respect, concerning those opinions put forth. After over twenty years with military intelligence, I have come to believe engaging each other in this manner and in this arena is the way we will learn tolerance and respect for differing beliefs, cultures, and viewpoints.

We all fall from grace, some more often than others; it is part of being human. God's test for us is what we learn from the experience, and what we do afterward.

Pastor Tony spent 22 years with the United States Air Force Intelligence as a planner, analyst, briefer, instructor, and senior manager. He spent 17 years, following his service career, working with the premier, world-renowned, Institutional Review Board helping to protect the rights of human subjects involved in pharmaceutical research. Ordained 1n 2013 as an "interfaith" minister, he founded the Congregation for Religious Tolerance in response to intolerance shown by Christians toward peaceful Islam. As the weapon for his war on intolerance he chose the pen, and wages his "battle" in the guise of the Congregation's official online blog, The Path, of which he is both author and editor. "The Path" offers a vehicle for commentary and guidance concerning one's own personal, spiritual, path toward peace and the final destination for us all. He currently resides in Pass Christian, Mississippi, where he volunteered as a chaplain at the regional medical center.

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