Hello Reader,
I operate under the meaningless pen name Blake Rivers so as to free my ideas and expressions from my specific personhood as much as possible. One should expect and receive undifferentiated response to one’s ideas, and one should strive to interpret and judge the ideas of others while impartial to who they are. Understanding is an intensely personal experience; to understand something is to find it inside of you. Therefore, communication is a sort of empathy.
Since as long as I can remember I’ve been thinking about life, the world, and spirituality. I have a constantly developing philosophy and I try to keep my mind as open and free like a child’s as possible. On retaining a childlike nature of thought and inquiry, consider Albert Einstein’s thoughts on the matter:
“I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. But my intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.”
There are many topics on which I have what I feel to be thoroughly developed thoughts and opinions, though not necessarily decisive ones. It helps to write these down and communicate them while they are still fresh and active in my mind. My hope is that I can offer something to the world, that I can reach out to you the reader and share some of my imagination rather than wrestle with philosophical monsters solely in my mind.
It is impossible to disconnect issues of philosophy from issues of spirituality, impossible to strip faith from reason. This is advantageous, however, because it allows for the possibility of human beings to understand their true nature and purpose in the cosmos. Were it not for faith, we could not build reason. Were it not for reason, we could not develop faith. Faith is just believing in something; in a way, all knowledge is faith, since knowability is based on belief. Thus, though my reasoning may be flawless, my own beliefs will inevitably come into play in my writing.
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