by Lethargio

Created on: October 27, 2008

The road not taken is the one of truth at any cost. What? truth at ANY cost? what do you mean? Nietzsche once posed the wuestion of why we human want truth rather than un-truth, and its a tough question. Its because, in my opinion, we have an urge to unveil the world. A world we know is a world we can control in theory, or at least in our dreams. The existentialists to which i adhere claim the truth is that life is meaningless. This does not depress them though, because now life has been unveiled it can be healed. They then offered their resolution for meaningless life; ourselves and our goals, passion and talents. This road was taken even though it admitted to the devastating revealation that life is meaningless, or as Nietzsche put it, "God is dead". This is the road we need to take. We need to search with the utmost passion and insight as to discover the world, our place in it and whether Gods exist and Angels watch us as we sleep. There is no atheist who would not want this and there is no religious person either, We all want the truth despite whether it would destroy our current beliefs.

This road is not marked or carved out. It barely exists as it is under the crippled headings of "Religion" and "Dogmatic Atheism" which lead nowhere except to their respective creeds and beliefs held like childrens pacifiers between their teeth. This road is not for scientists or theologians but for the philosopher. Science can only provide fact, but humanity has no use for facts. Humanity wants its place to be found and is willing to find it if it has to, as Sartre and Nietzsche did. The method to finding this road is not "skepticism" or science or religion but simple understanding of every available creed out there and comparing it to the world we live in. You have to understand a doctrine before you refute it; hence the failure of Dawkins and company to destroy religion and vice-versa. There are common factors among the different intellectual landscapes and that is the ego; the religious see the world made for them and a life after this one, and the atheists see this life as knowable and this universe easily taken to bits for examination. One must discard the ego and pick up the right mind. The right mind is the one that does not want to benefit itself, but wants to understand itself and the world it lives in despite the consequences. This can only be done when one falls away from the world in order to examine it, like an artist who steps back from the landscape they are about to draw.

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