Simple Plan

*This one’s still on Human Nature

Hi. Thinkers who lived even 500-800 years before Christ pondered on whether or not there indeed is a higher being: a creator, if you will. And whether his existence can be validated; that man does not only believe in this higher being, or "source" as some philosophers thought he/she/it was, because he fears of eternal damnation after the death of his physical self, but because he in fact knew he/she/it was real, true. The egyptians, 3500-5000 BC, in trying to investigate the heavenly bodies, using their astronomical observatories, the pyramids, did in fact cognize of a certain proportionality that keeps the universe in order. The more they learned about the stars, the more they realized that nothing happens by accident. This certain proportionality, divine or otherwise, was the same principle employed by Socrates "or Plato" in the Republic: in trying to conceptualize the idea of a perfect community of people. This certain proportionality was in fact the same springboard of the mind of St. Nicolas of Cusa in his "On Learned Ignorance."

Investigating geometry, Cusa said in effect, that the more he thinks he knew about something, the farther away he gets to the knowledge of it, as understanding something seems to bring about more and more questions on the nature of the things within the universe.

Anyway, for whatever its worth, those are just some thoughts.

I fail to understand though that (on the question of a "limitless mind") man’s mind only reacts to external stimulants and that he learns and acts based on experience: as may be implied a previous post in this forum. I’d like to think that man does not learn (or know) through the senses alone. In fact, I think man knows and learns through reason, hypothesizing, rational cognitive processes. Remember, what’s more perfect is what’s in the mind, not the physical representation of the idea. This is why i think Christ is immortal, because even as his physical manifestation died 2000 years ago, the idea of a Jesus Christ remains, what he represented and represents lives up to today. Say, if you kill me for having presented a dissenting view on any topic here, i would have been physically dead, but does that kill what I represented, the ideas, concepts I am trying to get accross?

Man’s creativity is the distinct feature that makes up the nature of man- separating us from the animals. We can probably say that it is a unique gift from our God, our "source."

But don’t you think we should inquire, the same way other people who came before us did, how we know that God is real? Yes, it is because the bible says so, but how do we know? More like asking ourselves, how do we know the world is round? Yes, we have learned that it is round from our parents, TV, schools, textbooks, but how do we know the world is round?

Till next time. Thanks.