Paradoxicalness

"Well it seems I've finally thought of everything.
I wanna love, I wanna feel, find peace, find the real."
-Find the Real, Alter Bridge

SO, at long last, I can blog on this site! YAY. Of course, what's the point? This blog isn't real, so why did I even care? I mean, the internet isn't even tangible save for the world of TRON, but we make the biggest deal about posting on this blog. You know what, everyone, forget about it, because this blog does not exist and is not trustworthy, we should not even think about it or make an attempt to be successful on it.

Seriously, though, as a councilman, you have to do it.

SERIOUSLY, trying to percieve everything as being capable of not even existing is not just daring, its dangerous. If you are really going to doubt everything as being untrustworthy and incapable of belief, you risk tearing away the fabric of everything you see around you. As far as I can tell, trying to find God in doubt like Descartes suggests we do would be maddening! Yes, God is trustworthy and the source of all trust, but can we not trust that the world around us is concrete? Yes, it is a broken and fallen world, full of deceptions and lies, but is not also possible that the world is not fooling us, but we are fooling ourselves? How many times do we let our own perceptions of what we want and need and what is good come in contrast with the actual state of the world, which, in turn, causes us to fall into despair and question our existence as meaningful?

Furthermore, for a man who claims to believe in God and seek His truth first, I find it quite arrogant to claim "I think, therefore I am" as the primary proof of existence and truth. Jesus preached quite often on the concept of faith and sought to remedy the problem of doubt that so often turns us away from belief in the divine. It almost seems heretical for Descartes to argue that doubt can actually lead us to faith instead of driving us all into nihilistic madness. Still, I guess that's the point of the rational age-throw away convential wisdom and drive ahead with new thoughts on how to be human (not necessarily including belief in God). Like the song above, I can see how Descartes' ideas on finding truth and rethinking existence are quite powerful and influential, but I must myself think just how deep one's mind can go into itself before realizing there is no longer any light in the cave.

Well, those are my own meditations, hope they're worth reading. Feel free to comment with praise, questions, or criticisms as you see fit. BTW, I posted on Kelsey Parrish's blog. However, Blogspot has decided not to let me comment on said blog, so here is my comment in full.

Good on you for being able to follow Descartes' train of though, it's not an easy thing to do. Theologians and thinkers have tried for centuries to be able to logically prove the existence of God through thought and reason, while the Bible states that the universe itself is evidence of God's truth and majesty. Still, such notions are irrelevant in the face of thinkers like Hawking and Dawkins, people whose mindset comes from this same era of thinking and have theories that claim just the opposite. So the question becomes "do I have faith or do I have doubt?" Descartes obviously responds "why not have both, you can't have one without the other!" Of course that's just another way that Descartes overthrows common thought patterns and perceptions-he's quite good at doing that. Good blog, Kelsey, look forward to reading from you again! 8)