Dragonlance
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Hello forum , this is my first post here. I wonder if anyone read the study done on children and religiousness? Anyway the conclusion the study came to was that human beings have a tendency to think in a religious way, that it is more common to think religiously than to think in a secularized way. Thinking in a secularized way can be compared to putting on gloves while trying to sense something that is very tender and fragile. Thinking in a religious way is far more "authentic" for a human being, but it has the disadvantage of not being as insensitive as the secular way of thinking can be. But religious thinking is also more fond of finding meaning in things and explains the world in a way that is very ethical in an superabundant way that may strike some of us as naive (and therefore worthless).
A child was for example asked why God created trees, and the child said "because they are pretty". Now how come I as an adult have gotten so blind to not have realized the simple truth in this childs point of view before? Not that I think we should elect kids for being presidents, but there is something about the innocent outlook on life that children has that seems to me to be very religious. The innate religiousness of man perhaps? If every child has this way to look at things, then every grown person also somewhere has this way of seeing things... stuffed away somewhere behind all that stuff we collect from growing up. We stop looking with our own eyes somehow.
I used to consider that values in life were to be found in that wich was exclusive, distinguished and superior. Things that sparkled and had a sweet aroma you know. And the pattern was there in my search for trying to understand the world as well, wich was evident in my choice of literature. But it only made me blind to what I had right here. The ordinariness of living. I used to despise that. People who lived ordinary lives was to me some kind of losers that simply lacke the guts to do somthing brave and spectacular. I saw their lives as being trivial.
And perhaps this is the problem in why I didnt understand religion either. We dismiss this so many things in life as common and trivial... You know the ordinary life, the life that is never seen in the media because its "just too ordinary". And instead go chasing those stars and rainbows. I mean I dont know how many religious concepts I have learned, or how many religious phrases Ive read. But nothing comes close to hearing the innosence of an unpretentious mind like that of a child.
When did ordinariness become something trivial and uninteresting? How come so many of us has gotten fooled to think that it is those who are sucessful, bright and prosperous that are the only interesting ones. How much do we miss out on just because we dismiss it as trivial and ordinary? In either case, I just want to say that right now I think I have found a new philosophy of life. A philosophy that upholds the ordinary and the ordinary ones as a valuable gem that is far more interesting simply because it doesnt have an immediate sparkle to it. You need to get closer to it first, you have to get used to it, and see it with your own eyes.
I think I have said enough, you know what I mean.
/Dragonlance
A child was for example asked why God created trees, and the child said "because they are pretty". Now how come I as an adult have gotten so blind to not have realized the simple truth in this childs point of view before? Not that I think we should elect kids for being presidents, but there is something about the innocent outlook on life that children has that seems to me to be very religious. The innate religiousness of man perhaps? If every child has this way to look at things, then every grown person also somewhere has this way of seeing things... stuffed away somewhere behind all that stuff we collect from growing up. We stop looking with our own eyes somehow.
I used to consider that values in life were to be found in that wich was exclusive, distinguished and superior. Things that sparkled and had a sweet aroma you know. And the pattern was there in my search for trying to understand the world as well, wich was evident in my choice of literature. But it only made me blind to what I had right here. The ordinariness of living. I used to despise that. People who lived ordinary lives was to me some kind of losers that simply lacke the guts to do somthing brave and spectacular. I saw their lives as being trivial.
And perhaps this is the problem in why I didnt understand religion either. We dismiss this so many things in life as common and trivial... You know the ordinary life, the life that is never seen in the media because its "just too ordinary". And instead go chasing those stars and rainbows. I mean I dont know how many religious concepts I have learned, or how many religious phrases Ive read. But nothing comes close to hearing the innosence of an unpretentious mind like that of a child.
When did ordinariness become something trivial and uninteresting? How come so many of us has gotten fooled to think that it is those who are sucessful, bright and prosperous that are the only interesting ones. How much do we miss out on just because we dismiss it as trivial and ordinary? In either case, I just want to say that right now I think I have found a new philosophy of life. A philosophy that upholds the ordinary and the ordinary ones as a valuable gem that is far more interesting simply because it doesnt have an immediate sparkle to it. You need to get closer to it first, you have to get used to it, and see it with your own eyes.
I think I have said enough, you know what I mean.
/Dragonlance
