Thinking about the value of the containment of religion by its principles and practices in the support and satisfaction of mankind.
Inspired by Others:
Survival by Free thinking or the Zoo of Religion, in the acquisition of a worldview...
I keep reading other people's works and I am so able to always lift some simple sentence, or paragraph, or even just a phrase and cogitate on it, be inspired by it...
And now I wonder, will I even ever be able to prove the same dynamics of heart, of words to bring to others the life that I find when I read?
Oh I do hope so... that others too will look in what I write, and find simple things, homegrown inside each of your own hearts and repose with the pure thoughts, the first thoughts that are not mine but your own...
Survival by Free thinking or the Zoo of Religion, in the acquisition of a worldview...
Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured.
What is the meaning of freedom in such a context? Animals in the wild are, in practice free neither in space nor in time, or in their personal relations. ...
I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.
Taken from Life of Pi, page 16 and 19
To me this is the comeuppance to reason,when man cries out in faith to a silent God...does Reason really speak the answers mankind needs?
As again, Mr. Martel shares the story of Pi:
" Had I considered my prospects in the light of reason, I surely would have given up... I just held on, God only knows why. "
Taken from Life of Pi, page 16 and 19
From Life of Pi by Yann Martel...
"And what of my extended family--birds, beasts and reptiles? They too have drowned. Every single thing I value in life has been destroyed. And I am allowed no explanation? I am to suffer hell without any account from heaven? In that case, what is the purpose of reason, Richard Parker? Is it no more than to shine at practicalities-- the getting of food, clothing, and shelter? Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch?"
As again, Mr. Martel shares the story of Pi:
" Had I considered my prospects in the light of reason, I surely would have given up... I just held on, God only knows why. "
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