Silent Story

It's funny how things are so simple and yet on the surface so chaotic. And it seems like when you think of any aspect of life there's always a distinct opposite to it. Of coourse there's good and evil, young and old, black and white. There are those who know truth and those who don't. I remember learning about Plato and all of the bright philosophers of our time who spent endless hours searching their brains for the meaning of life. Plato developed The Theory of Forms as a result of his research. This theory of his, in spite of its madness, reduced human nature and mother nature itself (the spatio-temporal world that we live in) into a dream. To Plato, the only reality is in the world of the Forms. You can only find true knowledge in this relm. This means, according to Plato, everything we think we know is only a very small fraction of the way it truely is. Down to the smallest piece of grain from a slab of wood. Everything on this earth has a one true form. So there is one true person, one true book, one true table, etc. Plato believed that at one time before our individual births into this phony world, we saw the land of the Forms (well our souls did anyway). And in order to have true knowledge of something one must be "revisited" with a recollection of the souls experience in that relm. Give or take a few details here and there, this was Plato's argument for the truth behind our existence. Noone could ever imagine that he came up with this after having a deep conversation with Socrates over what virtue means. SMH.

AnywaY this astounded me. As I sat looking up at my professor with my mouth wide open I thought of how truely complicated the human mind can get and yet how it wastes much of its thoughts on useless nonsense. This is life. This is human nature. No matter how things are in the world around you people will never cease to question the truth behind their own existence. In almost all these cases they end up finding every excuse in the book rather than simply giving God the glory and being done with it. Nevertheless, I might be able to see the mistakes people make regarding these things but no matter what, people will look the other way and place themselves at the center of the universe. Like Descartes once said "I think, therefore, I am."