The Truths Of Reason

I think reason is very important and useful in our daily life; and the best is that all of us are capable to use it, of course not in the same way, as we all think differently in a point or another; I agree that it help us think and analyze information that we get in different ways. There are many mistakes we do in life just because we don’t think logically, this is why I think that we need to analyze our actions, and that, I think, should be by our reasoning. I know sometimes we don’t care to analyze things further, and I think it is not always that important to do so, if it is not something that interest you, or something that can be useful for your life or work.

When I read something that interests me, I search more information about it, and personally I can say I use reason to analyze the things I just read, to determine first with my own reasoning if it is logic for me, and then I can look for more information to determine if it is true, because sometimes, it can happen that information believed true can be proven wrong. Also, maybe the reasoning about the information that we did is wrong, we can make mistakes, we are human. Reasoning helps us to think by ourselves, analyzing the information we get; it help us to keep thinking, and also have our own ideas about the information we got, and also about other things in life.

TRUTHS

"Your truth? No, Truth;
come seek it with me,
As for yours, you can keep it"
This comes on Savater's book, but what does it really mean???
Savater usually has a lot of point of views or at least shows a lot of point of views, and suddenly he refutates each one of them! Which classification of point of view we belong to? What does people want to believe? why do people believe some things and some other its nearly impossible for us to believe? Well first of all I think we take a belief as guaranteed depending on the argument that sustains that belief. For example, if the argument was: I believe this because a god named quetzalcoatl revealed me in a dream that Humans in fact are a kind of reptile. Well, most of the people would "believe" that I'm crazy because in this time, in this century we appear to have other ways to verify if something is truth or not. The point is that first of all, (In my personal view) some truths change among time, place, etc.(relative) while other don't, secondly, why would a vision like this be revealed to just one person? why can't a GOD give EVERYBODY a vision? Why would this person be so special? Well i don't know if its ego or something but i think that in order to state something we all should get access at least to the REASONS why it is the way it is. Come seek it with me? well yeah, so we both know what you are talking about.

Have anybody already thought about the quantity of question in the world that are unexplainable? In my opinion, I will say that there are so many things in the world that humans had never discovered and will never do it. I think people are discovering each day so many nature marvelous and maybe keep doing it because that’s what science is encharge of but we are so far away of understanding perfectly how everything works and why is everything like it is. I think that for the world to form so many things had happened and species had evolved so much and got very complex that maybe human will never be able to understand even how they perfectly work or how were we exactly got to what we are today. I agree with what Savater said, I think we can learn so many things everyday in our lives. We can learn them from lots of different ways and sources: we can learn it in school, we can learn it from our parents and friends, and we can learn it just because we experience it, or also we can learn it by revelation (what Gods show to us). There are so many different ways so that’s why I agree with Savater but I am the kind of person the tries to get the answer for every question that comes up to my mind but I totally believe that there are so many question that have no answer or maybe they do but we haven’t figured it out yet and we are not even close.

The Eternal Rest

Since I was little, I have always wondered, why many people say that dead people are in a better place? I remember when my grandpa died, I was so sad and had 11 years old, and I remember my aunt trying to calm me, telling me: “Don’t cry, grandpa is in a better place now, he doesn’t want to see you crying”, but is there a better place where we go when we die?

Death is a mystery that no one can explain, although many people have died, they can’t return to tell us how it is to be dead. Even though every single person is different, since we are born, we all will die, all of us need to die, I see it as a cycle, and we need to die so another person could live, even though nowadays when a person dies, like 5 babies are born. That’s why we shouldn’t be afraid of death, but should we be afraid of losing someone? For many people it is very hard to lose a close person, even for me it is terrible, but why being afraid, if I’m not afraid of dying, the problem is that we don’t want to suffer, but why do we suffer? Is still the question, if we are only earning a little time, because as I said we’ll all die.

Finally, it does not mean than dying is going to a better place or something like that, dying is passing to another step, a completely different step, in which we have been before being born, so are you afraid? No, not any more.

“It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other”.

Francis Bacon

DEATH

Interesting topic, very feared and yet unavoidable. Are we all going to die? YES, at some point. We don't know when, how, why but for sure we are all going to. I have never been afraid from death, I accept death as something that is going to happen, and as for I know, it's the end of this state; Life. I won't try to convince anyone to think as me, or to feel as me, but what I want to make clear is that death isn't soo bad, maybe people value a lot their lives and they don't want it to be over, but heyyyyy isn't that a bit selfish? I mean, people is still borning and as Savater said: we beated death once by being born. I suppose we need to give a chance to all those new human beings(mortals) to live their own lives and somekind replace us in the world. I think we must live day by day without imaginating how our death would be, I mean, is like imaginating what you will feel in a certain circumstance, you can have an idea of what it's going to be, but you can't be 100% sure. As for me, let the things happen as they mean to be, yet do not underestimate the capacity of movement. While we are still alive, enjoy being alive, when we're death well we'll figure something out. I am very satisfied with this chapter of the book, I learnt that death complements our individuality and makes us somekind of empathic, as we are all going to die, no matter skin color, race, social position, etc. What would be of the world without it? A disaster? well, we don't know that, so why don't we just take advtange of life, of this state which can be managed in many ways, live your life, do all what you can, and for one moment, stop worrying about what you can't controll; death, and change what you can; your attitude in life, your relationships, and not because of the fear that you're going to die soon, but for improving your LIFE QUALITY.

Death

Death is not always a pleasant subject to think or talk about; even if I already know, as many people that we all are going to die someday, in a way or another, at any age; it is sad but true, especially when it happen to people around you. Also, as philosophers once said “we cannot fear something not yet experienced” like death, I agree, but personally I still have a little fear about dying, not because I denied it, but because I like very much to be alive. I prefer not to think much about my own death, I know someday it will happen, so I just hope it will be in many years, and be somehow careful.

Something I know, because of an experience, that when people are suffering a lot with a mortal illness in the final stages, they began to accept more their death than before, like they prefer to die than to suffer more, and they are completely conscious and ready for it. Maybe this sounded weird, but I guess that in our final stage of life, it is the point when we really are ready for it, for our death; except if it is an accident, and you die unconscious, you didn’t have time to think about it.

Death

I personally think that this topic is a great topic to talk about in philosophy. There are so many different beliefs about what happens after death. Every religion has their own belief, also all sciences believe in something else. The real truth is that nobody knows what happens because is true what the book says “you cannot experience death while you are alive”.
I have asked myself this same questions so many times. And my individual conclusion is that when one dies, body and soul stay together and you just stop existing. I agree with the fact that we didn’t know anything or feel anything before we were born, so I think that Is exactly what happens when we die. One just stops existing and stop feeling and thinking you are just disconnected of everything. I don’t believe you are going to heaven or that you’re resting because you’re not even tired and why would you be resting for such a long time. People when is death has no more energy. Resting is for recovering yourself and fill yourself up with energy again, but what for. Your body stops working so you are gone.
I don’t think that people is more alive than other people. I think you might be alive or not. Some people are more useful and use more their lives than others but that for ME doesn’t mean that you’re more alive.
In conclusion, some of my personal beliefs accord to the book but some other some other does not. I think that everybody can have its own personal beliefs and it is very important that each one of us give our own points of view.