A Personal Philosophy on the World
My personal philosophy on life as it was in April of 2005. Written for Senior English at Maine Central Institute.
My whole philosophy is really based on science. Its what you see is what you get. I think in my head how our world works around us, how the universe works, and how people interact with one another. I think on either a larger or smaller scale of each of these things to prove a point or existence in my reality. I will discuss my idea of ‘what is’ in a search for truth along with the existence of a soul. In proving such things I look at my idea of perfection as well as how my reality is a continuing cycle in which all life continues to exist and have an impact of its surroundings.
When I look at ‘what is’ I look at the thought of ‘I think therefore I am’. For me I know that I exist because I think but I really have no clue whether others do or not. I’ve had this thought in my head for a long time. Knowing this I’ve taken it and proven what truth is. This is only truth for me and may be different for someone else. My reality is how I see the world. This is truth for me. I may be able to prove something and then it is true in my reality but perhaps not in another’s reality. For example I can prove that the chair is brown and in my reality it is brown, but some one else may have a different concept of brown as their reality, therefore the chair for them is not brown. My thinking is truth. By knowing that I can think the truth makes me think that I can control the truth in my reality. Perhaps knowing this I can change my reality by thinking, similar to praying. One prays so that a ‘God’ can change something but in my reality my thinking does change what is reality so in a way I am ‘God’. This is similar to self-deception because you create your own reality outside everyone else’s so you are deceiving yourself with your own truth that is only truth in your own reality. Knowing that I have created my own reality around me one may ask why I created so much hatred and terrorism in the world. I have proven to myself that these things exist because without them there would be no reason to celebrate the good things. Everything would just be truth and life would be boring. By having imperfections in human interaction it makes a balance worthwhile in my reality making life all the more enjoyable.
Science shows us how the world is constantly changing in a cycle similar to birth and death. We know that the universe was started and everything is part of our universe. I looked at this on a larger scale. We are part of the earth and the earth is part of our solar system and the solar system is part of our universe and so on until you come to the ultimate form of unity that unites everything. We have this idea and it is impossible to know exactly what it is. It is the ultimate form that some consider to be another idea of ‘God’. There is no way to know though there have been many strange theories on what the larger thing is. Some theories have been as crazy as us being only characters in the dream of a giant. One may ask if this thing we are all part of controls us and how everything works. This larger thing we are all part of may not even know its importance to us or that we even exist. A theory I have though of is similar to how a garbage can ecosystem is. In the garbage we throw away things we don’t need. By doing this we give food to thousands of different kinds of bacteria and small organisms without even thinking of their importance. The higher being that we are all part of may act in the same way by just disregarding our existence and just does what its suppose to without knowing it. Even with science we have no way to discover what this point is though we know it exists.
One can then continue to look in the other direction on a smaller scale. In science one keeps getting smaller and looking for a pure substance. As of our current technology we can get as small as DNA structures. We know that there are forms smaller than this because we know that there is information printed in the DNA that we do not yet know about to a full extent. What one is looking for in this search is a pure substance that we know does exist though we can’t obtain it. I then went back to think of the truth compared to perfection. If we create our reality then it is a form of perfection. It is created by us to be perfect the way it is. This shows us pure beauty in our world. There is no way it could be anything but perfect in our minds.
Most people are looking to discover whether or not they have a soul. I compare our body and soul structures to that of a computer through my science method. When one looks at a computer they see the hardware on the outside. Inside though there is the programming and software. This software is our soul. Without the hardware it could not exist but put it in another computer and it can continue to grow after the old computer hardware is old and gone. We know that our mind thinks separate from our body from our natural instincts and this is a cause to show our separation. We can learn from psychics that it is possible to remove your mind from your body after intense training. There have been experiments done with plants where a psychic would not have seen the living item and they would then separate their mind and go into the plant and feel the same feelings as the plant and even be able to tell which leaves were damaged or not getting enough nutrients. It is possible to separate your mind from your body proving that you do have a soul and in a way it is ones soul that feels the emotions of the plant in the experiment.
Now that I have proven that a soul exists it is necessary to prove what happens to the soul when one dies or when one’s body expires. The soul in a way is hibernating when one dies. We see in nature how every winter everything seams to die and to be life less. This is not the case and everything comes back to life in the spring. During the winter plants may all seam to be dead just like our bodies but the essence of the plant is still there as are we though we all may come back in another form like some plants do. A plant such as Queen Ann’s Lace grows in one form one year and the next it will look different having changed its form. Though the tree itself will die in the end its essence will still be there. On a larger scale a star may die but it then turns into a black hole or a red star but its essence is still there but in another form. For the tree it may die but in its death it will help nurture the soil creating smaller shrubs to grow so that animals may eat them. The essence of the tree continues in another form first in a smaller plant then in the form of an animal but it is still there and the idea of it is still continuing to exist with its soul.
I have invented science. Because I have invented it, it is truth there for the perfection of the idea of science makes my whole theory work. I have proven in my reality there is a way to prove all existence through thinking that all of my thoughts are truth. This idea in itself is a circle showing the never-ending aspect of my reality. Truth is an idea that plays with all people’s minds. There is no way to prove that truth is the same for all persons or even that everyone believes that the idea of truth is the same. Philosophy is a very interpretive subject and it is hard for all to believe upon the same set of theories to prove all existence and truth. My philosophy exists because I think. So like Descartes ‘I am.’
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