my beliefs are also guided by, no, guided isn’t the right word,
bounded by certain facts which I cannot deny…
I hold that evolution is correct… we found our way here by evolution…
now one may say, but isn’t that by inclination that you hold to evolution…
the theory of evolution suits you and so you hold it to be true…
but I spent a year or two studying evolution… getting down deep into the weeds
of what evolution is and isn’t…( I also studied gravity one year and discovered
something interesting… that the universe is shaped like a wheel of cheese…
and from that one fact, one can deduce the presence of multiverses… one on top of another.
this explain some facts about gravity too…it also tells us something about space,
that space itself is made out of something because space itself bends and shifts,
to bend or shift, it must be made out of something)
anyway, I also spend 40 years searching for god…
I sought god in the obscure alleyways of buddhism and Jainism
and other religions of the east…and read hundreds of religious books
and biography and autobiographies…I have found that those who seek certainty
in life, will hold to religious beliefs…the search for certainty is the search for
religion…but it wasn’t certainty that drove me, it was uncertainty…
life is far more about uncertainty then it is about certainty…
because really, what is certain in life?
Nothing as far as I can tell…my question has been not about how to live within
certainty, but how to live with uncertainty…for decades the abyss stared me in the
face… daring me to solve the riddle of uncertainty…that abyss was uncertainty…
the central questions of existence involved uncertainty, at least for me…
that is the problem of being a past follower of Hume…the further along
Hume’s path, the more uncertainty that happens in one’s life…
so to recap, I hold to evolution, I hold to the needs of human needing to
be met, needs like food, water, shelter, education, health care and the
psychological needs of love, belonging, esteem, hope… we have both physical needs
and psychological needs…we are biological creatures that need food and
the physical contact with other human beings…we are social beings, and we
must be social as a need as we must eat and have shelter…
so those idea’s are kinda parameters for my beliefs, they bound them as it were…
walls for my beliefs as it were… with the inside of the house being my beliefs themselves…
so what is next?
the beliefs themselves…
Kropotkin