I wield this pen with tired thumb,
So weary from the fight.
My wrist is weak, my fingers numb,
Alone in candlelight.
The pulse of tension will not cease;
In sleep, I will not sink,
Unless my thoughts can find release,
And flow out in the ink.
Do you know why you believe what you believe? OR, have you just accepted the ready-made faith and philosophy that has been handed down to you along the way? Challenge your beliefs to see if they stand up to thorough scrutiny. We all may learn a thing or two.
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- Mike
- An unusual sequence of events in my journey has caused me to search for the truth regardless of the roughness of the path or the fences.
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"The unexamined life is not worth living". Socrates
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Immanuel Kant: What is Enlightenment?,1784
Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! "Have courage to use your own reason!"- that is the motto of enlightenment.
Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them from external direction (naturaliter maiorennes), nevertheless remains under lifelong tutelage, and why it is so easy for others to set themselves up as their guardians. It is so easy not to be of age. If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a physician who decides my diet, and so forth, I need not trouble myself. I need not think, if I can only pay - others will easily undertake the irksome work for me.
Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them from external direction (naturaliter maiorennes), nevertheless remains under lifelong tutelage, and why it is so easy for others to set themselves up as their guardians. It is so easy not to be of age. If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a physician who decides my diet, and so forth, I need not trouble myself. I need not think, if I can only pay - others will easily undertake the irksome work for me.
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