Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Fleeting Frailty- Telegraph #4

People accomplish the greatest fetes, people galvanize crowds, people love, people satisfy, people break hearts, people commit genocide, and people destroy. This topic is not an abecedarian one for anyone. A searching soul has already rationalized the topic of people being good and evil.  Setting definitions of viewing people, finding balance, and facing my relationships.  Why we can't stop.

There are two protagonist world views, whether man is naturally good, romantiscm, or people are naturally evil. The zeitgeist is romantiscm. I hold the contrary view that people are naturally wicked, but have potential. As I seek perfection, I distance myself from who I really am. Possibly I am mistaking who I was with my sinful nature.  

A balance must be found in relationships. Finding yin and yang often is difficult. The balance is determining if they are hurting more than helping. No one is meant to tackle life alone. God made Adam for Eve. A few qualifiers for people hurting your life is, impairing goals, attacking values, and dilapidating other relationships. It is important to note that this evaluation of others you should also evaluate yourself, because criticism is like chewing gum savor it but don't swallow. 

Sometimes it is difficult to carry my worldview into decision making because my disposition which is to think the best of others. When in reality this is not the case. Three things need to be remembered. Your best times will be with people, your worst times will be with people, people were meant to be left. Yes the best time marriage and birth. The worst, divorce and death. Some would call into question people being meant to be left, but it is quite clear humans are made largely independent with very few reasons to come together. Even if your relationships are perfect you or the other person will die, to never be seen again in this life. 

So the impact of this is that human beings will cut you deeply and any sane person would distance themselves from this horrible kind altogether but our hearts cry out and we chase phantoms down rabbit holes.
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4 comments:

  1. When you brought up the humanistic belief that people are naturally good, it made me think about Rousseau, the humanist philosopher of the 1700s. He developed the idea that primitive man, or the "noble savage", is superior to modern, civilized man. He stated that, "If man is good by nature, as I believe to have shown him to be, it follows that he stays like that as long as nothing foreign to him corrupts him." Rousseau wanted complete freedom not only from God, but the Bible, and any form of authority. He believed that absolute freedom was the only way to preserve humanity's natural goodness.
    Just a little rabbit trail I got of on!

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  2. great contribution thank you very much

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  3. Very nice little rabbit trail you went on. ��

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