on faith vs. reason

Łukasz — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 05:06:00 +0000

Came across a particular insight last night in prayer–It hit me like a ton of bricks, it was on the idea that faith for the sake of faith can strengthen your love for someone you know nothing about. Yet in happens in such a profound and unique way that it’s almost easy to overlook. Sure God can show himself every generation, prove himself and be done with it. But there is something profound in trusting in that which you cannot see. Yet not as a crutch, this kind of trust is the same that you apply when someone tells you something like “I need some cash for a ride across town, can you help me out?” One’s first reaction might be “He want’s to get a beer or cigarettes.” Think of the trust it takes to just give someone hard earned money in the trust that they might use it for a ride or actually for food. When one trains that trust eventually it comes innate and reactive, but not a thought.

I believe England exists, I believe there are people there, but I’ve never been there. I have faith in its existence. All the videos I’ve seen could be faked and images of a different place. But come on, lets get real. England exists

everything is so tightly interwoven, it’s almost disarming.

Brilliant words from a wise man.

Łukasz — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:39:21 +0000

Analysis of the verb ‘to use’

The world in which we live is composed of many objects. The word ‘object’ here means more of less the same as ‘entity’. This is not the proper meaning of the word, since an ‘object’, strictly speaking, is something related to a ’subject’. A ’subject’ is also an ‘entity’- an entity which exists and acts in a certain way. It is then possible to say that the world in which we live is composed of may subjects. It would indeed be proper to speak of ’subjects’ before ‘objects’. If the order has been reversed here, the intention was to put the emphasis right at the beginning of this book on its objectivism, its realism, if we begin with a ’subject’ especially when that subject is man, it is easy to treat everything which is outside the subject, i.e. the whole world of objects, in purely subjective way, to deal with it only as it enters into the consciousness of the subject, establishes itself and dwells in that consciousness. We must, then, be clear right from the start that every subject also exists as an object, and objective ’something’ or ’somebody’.

that is the FIRST paragraph of the book “Love and Responsibility by John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla). its heavy stuff. he sets up the idea he presents through the first part of the book about how love cannot be fully realized unless it’s understood on a basic level and that a Utilitarian way of seeing love is just flat out wrong. Unfortunately it’s the kind that seems to be prevalent here in the states. Hate to be the nay-sayer but it is true. In fact, it might not be going too far to say that it might be the human inclination to have a utilitarian view of love.

anyway, he goes on, and even that first paragraph has an entire section in the back expanding on just that first section. talk about heavy! But it is so fulfilling when you start to grasp what he is saying. He truly is going to be one of the great Philosophers of our age.

check his book out if you haven’t already its under $12 and worth EVERY penny and more:

http://www.amazon.com/Love-Responsibility-Pope-John-Paul/dp/0898704456

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on faith vs. reason

Brilliant words from a wise man.

Analysis of the verb ‘to use’