Socratic dictum states “an unexamined life is not worth living”..How would he know?
This started out to be a kind of funny post, but then it grew serious. Maybe I will say it after all…and just go where it leads.
My initial thought was that I had experienced something of an epiphany. As of late, I have been realizing how many mean spirited people say angry and cutting things to just hear themselves talk. Just take a look at Wikopedia. Condemnation repeated but at its source, a perjurer. Still it thrives as an outlet for a created reality where abject, unfettered arrogance is memorialized as truth, when it is (in true reality) merely an outlet for condemnation and contempt. So, after having been on this blog for a few weeks, well, I must ask….how do we truly “know” anything as truth. It is just the truth now, without further evidence that may prove it a half truth or even a lie. All is theory (and viewed skeptically or even as false) until proven to be fact. Then we start reaching for the next (as yet unrevealed) rung on the ladder. It may be there, just hidden, but in all likelihood, never will we know everything..Certainly not enough or solidly enough to condemn with such contempt. So,”Is ignorance (*truly) bliss?” “Or is it folly for the wise?” Is an unexamined life truly not worth living?.Or is it just a safe haven to escape the real jerks of the world? I humbly confess my own ignorance. I am fallible and in many ways ignorant. However, I do not profess to be the holder of the truth at every turn. Let me note here, that this is not a spiritual question. The certain things I do know is the love of God through Christ. My questions come as to the “created reality, born and thriving not on truth, but on hate, personal motivation and dogmatic repetition. The web is a powerful tool. In the wrong hands it can be devastating to the efforts of righteousness over evil and love over hate. How do we manage?How do we effectively fight back?God needs an anchor and a shield. Maybe God is our shield.