Hi, I was wondering if people here could help me out? I recently wrote a philosophical short essay and I was wondering if I could get some outside feedback on it? do you like it, think it needs work, dont really understand it… etc. thanks and I look forword to hearing from you.
Is Man Guided By Truth or Lies?
Is it the depth of man’s perception on the humanity of truth-telling or is it the
shallowness of his vision towards the devilry of utilizing lies that drives man in his
quest for excellence and ambition beyond his basic primal needs and urges?
Man was instilled with both intellect and emotion. While such a duality of mankind is
inherently divine in nature, it tends to redirect and drive man towards the
creation of his own inner great conflict: He unfortunately tends to find himself in
turmoil where the emotional aspect of his dual nature is trying to feel what
he is thinking and his intellectual counterpart is trying to think how he
should feel. In such a redirection of his duality, man finds himself losing
hold of his peace and tranquility and internalized conflict begins to take
hold, ultimately becoming the byproduct and an inextricable eventuality.
When the intellectual counterpart of man starts to question the validity of his
own happiness, for instance, produced from his emotional counterpart, it invariably
becomes a prime example of such; and the beginnings of an internal conflict
give way in which man finds himself in an abyss of his own inner misgivings
and misjudgements to achieve what he intellectually believes will be a
greater sense of “happiness”… Such misconceptions and misjudegements of the intellect
include the notion, for example, that further “happiness” can be obtained thru the attainment
of an increased amount of success and glory. So ultimately, what was once a duality of two
forces whose interplay and intermixing was inherently intended to be divine in nature,
becomes one in which competition and struggle for dominance over the other
yields an acquired inertia of these two forces which becomes chaotic in
nature instead.
Such an internalized conflict of his dual nature tends to lead man to transition from chaos
into immorality, and to force further dilemma regarding morality, in
particular that of truth verses lies. He finds himself on the scales of life
where with one indecisive error in judgement and action could tip the scales
in favor of his demise and fall. With this misguided so-called intellectual knowledge,
and keen awareness of his own heightened emotionally driven needs for achievement
and success in further endeavors, man— internally chaotic— often finds
himself tipping the scales of then morality, where truth and lies are firmly juxtaposed
on opposite sides of the scales, towards that of lies. Man unfortunately
again finds himself in turmoil where he directs and manipulates his own dual
nature to fulfill an unrelenting desire to gratify his senses and to inturn
satisfy emotionally ingrained needs. It is the redirection of his dual
nature, this time— attained thru the heightening of his emotional
counterpart, and an almost fine tuning of his intellectual counterpart to
selectively recall memories of emotional pleasures derived thru the senses
(such as sensations of happiness derived from success and glory) while
suppressing all acquired knowledge of morality and consequential
ramifications of straying from said morality— that leads him to gratify his
senses without remorse or guilt to his own humanity, and to consequently
fulfill, with an almost animalistic nature, an interiorized, channeled
hunger and desire for said achievement and success— without regard to his own morality.
Is this his innate behavioral pattern and tendency emanating and derived from an internal
conflict of his dual nature and an eventual, consequent, intrinsic need to
gratify the senses or is it simply acquired externally from a society that
favors success and ambition over love and spiritual contentment? Whether the answer lies
in the former or latter or a culmination of all such components, man’s depth
of perception on the humanity of truth-telling eventually becomes skewed and the shallowness of
his vision towards the devilry of utilizing lies thusly heightens and he ultimately finds
himself in a so- called meandering— yet luring— rat race, in an intricately developed maze,
where at the end, if not controlled, only he will lose.
