...and the dead dream of living.

Back during the time of the Ancient Greeks there was a somewhat universal understanding of creation.  This was not the Christian creation ex nihilo, that concept would not have made sense to the Greeks.  Unlike modern day Christians, the Greeks used rationality and logic to make their claims. Back at that time it was not comprehend-able that something could be created out of nothing. It was simply illogical. Instead creation could only come from something.  That something was an event, it was the coming together of kaos (chaos) and noesis (mind). From these things came all. Disorder is thus natural in the world. So, lets say your child dies.  While a Christian would damn God, a Greek would have merely look at it as "hey man, crazy shit happens." Now one must wonder with the philosophical advancement of the Greeks how could they have ignored the idea of ex nihilo? The Greeks were natural scientists, all knowledge came from the senses.  An obvious fact.  It didn't matter if the senses are real or not, it's all we got to work with. To think less of that is just ignorant foolishness.  It wasn't until the time of the Moderns was such foolishness permitted. Not before the Moderns did anyone really conceptualize the question "how can you PROVE I exist, how can you prove YOU exist... maybe Christians are not wrong about creation ex nihilio, but maybe they're wrong that we exist at all."  Of course the people who said these things spent the majority of their lives trying to prove that God can exist alongside such questions. Which of course had nothing to do with the fact that the Church was also the publishing company for anyone and everyone at the time.  This did have its problems though. Suddenly we may not exist. Prior to then...of course we exist. What but what exactly "exists" varied among different Greek philosophers.  Perhaps all things are one thing, that one thing may be: wind, aer, earth, logos, the undefinable, etc.  Or it may be two things as others thought.  Or it may be an infinite number of things. "Or it may be four things and one of the four is my puppy" (- Prof. Dr. Stephen Kellert). But now we are in the post-modern times. We may or may not exist.  If we do we may or may not have been created. Quantum Mechanics agrees with the Flux Doctrine, so if we exist it really doesn't matter. Though Quantum Mechanics also agrees with the view that if you add everything "that is, and that isn't" it equals 0, so again, it doesn't matter. Myself and Einstein are the only people who still worship Spinoza's God, because David Hume killed all the others, and Kant didn't resurrect Christ, he merely opened a "space" for Him, which is a priori, necessary, and a product of pure intuition. No one has added to that since then, only torn it apart.

In the end what are we left with?
We are left with Albert Camus, we are on an endless search for meaning, in a universe that is not offering anything. And yet we can't help but look.  So, cry yourselves to sleep you poets, you philosophers, you psychologists, you dreamers. Philosophy is a dead thing, and every other science is an ignorant fallacy that should have long before it.

Hello,
My name is Doug McQuarrie. I am a philosopher, a poet, and a psychologist. This is my blog.

Currently listening to: Across the Dark by Insomnium
Currently reading: Critique of Pure (theoretical) Reason by Kant.