Monday, 23 January 2017

JUST PHILOSOPHISING - ON THE STATES OF BEING. THE HUMANIST - PART 2.





The humanist, like all people who are guided strong principles, is at risk of becoming dogmatic about their world view or weltanshauung, as the Germans refer to it. Yet, unlike the religious and political ideologue, the humanist does not go about persecuting and forcing his/her worldview onto their fellow humans. 

Instead, the humanist endeavours to bring about changes in the psychological, physical and intellectual states of their fellow humans, through the acceptance of human responsibility and reasoning.



Like the theistic religionist, the humanist is also preoccupied with the quest for more knowledge and understanding, concerning both the normal or regular fears of humans, such as those about our daily living and our eventual demise. As well as the more fundamental questions, such as those pertaining to whether there is any grand 'purpose to human existence',  as opposed to human ascribed purposes.

Yet, whereas the theistic religionist or believer might live and sacrifice their time on the earth, in fear of their god/s, it is his fellow humans whom the humanist fears. Having known and seen the evidence of the destruction and evil which their fellow humans have wrought upon their own specie and on the earth. 



The humanist has read, heard of and seen the fearful things which their fellow humans have done and are able to do to humans. How mercilessly and cruelly we have treated our own kind, and how destructive we have become. 

At the same time, the humanist has not seen any evidence of god or the gods having brought destruction on human beings, as opposed to other humans having recorded that the gods have done so. The humanist has heard other humans declaring what the gods have done and will do, but he/she has never heard any 'god/s' declaring that they will do evil, or, for that matter, good, to humans.



And so it is, that, the humanist, being guided by their intellect and analysis, by what they can see, experience and understand, and within the context of their acceptance that all is most probably still not or will ever be revealed to them, have come to their conclusion that there is most probably no supreme being called god. 

That this is not an ipso facto case of 'there is life and humans, so there must also be a god/s by whom they were created.'

To be continued.








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