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s to bond with people to enjoy music painting computer games it s not a matter of doing important things it s just about living whatever that means death makes life unique otherwise we wouldn t appreciate it and that comes often with death is natural it s part of the circle of life and if you love life you should also love death ok i understand the concept of appreciating a situation when you have faced or there is a possibility of facing the opposite one but first of all i don t agree with that 100 and also i don t see how is that supposed to make me feel better i don t need to go to the desert without rations to value water sure i might appreciate it more then but i don t need to go to that extreme to realize its importance in general i can think rationally and i can cherish what i have without constant fear of losing it if i would treasure it more due to that fear i don t really care i don t think that difference worth s it the price is too high for a bit more appreciation than what i already have and sure death is natural unavoidable and all that but that doesn t mean i have to be happy about it in order to be happy about life i can accept it but it can still bother me death is not part of life it s not the final act it s the end of it is this part of the movie at some point blom said that diderot found solace through art and i wonder if he meant that producing art soothed him that i can very well understand arts or anything that makes us feel good helps us focus on now and kind of forget about what s coming next it is only rational to look for pleasures let them be carnal culinary aesthetic or just sunday evenings but he could also mean that the thought of producing art and leaving something behind made him feel better which brings me to another argument we die but our legacy goes on our actions affect life after us well frankly my dear i don t give a damn it might be obvious by now that i don t care about what happens after my death my fear is founded on a selfish need to keep living sure i will be very happy if humanistic values are established on earth and even more happy if i help in any way towards that but still that offers no comfort regarding death just the fact that we managed to be conscious of ourselves to realize we exist and everything that comes with it only to lose it someday is pissing me off a bit the final argument i will discuss is since our time here is limited we should live our life in the fullest again no comfort against death apparently not wanting to die won t make me sit at home all day panicking and missing life if anything it will make me try to live it in the fullest indeed though i am not trying to fill every moment of my life with events and people just for that as i ve mentioned before i consider procrastination part of the pleasures of life p still that doesn t change the fact this something that i am experiencing now i will eventually lose it can be tomorrow or in 50 years it will never be enough δημοσιεύτηκε στο αγαπητό ημερολόγιο ψυχολογία λέμε τώρα ετικετοποιημένο death σχολιάστε 30 μαρτίου 2014 by iokaste ehyd philipp blom second that day was philipp blom an engaging speaker and what seems to be a very approachable and warm person his speech was quite long and it was late so unfortunately many people including me were too tired to fully participate but the subjects he touched are very important for the shape of today s society he inspired me to read more on these topics and his books are next on my ever growing list what s more he mentioned 2 issues that has been tormenting me for a while so his speech was of special personal importance but that will be analyzed on the second part of this article his main topic was the enlightenment and the criticism it faces we live in difficult times even though many could argue that they re not so difficult as other times in the past still what you experience always affects you more than what you read in history books so people are striving with many problems and tend all too easily to turn fingers upon the guilty which might not always be guilty at all of course but we need to point our fingers to someone or something so many people today think the enlightenment is a failure either because it had potential but didn t manage to be radical enough to fully reach it or because its values were not good to begin with and they lead us to an immoral society the not radical enough side according to blom enlightenment gave much less than it actually could only because the people who are considered to be its prominent figures were too conservative in their radicalism yes they did have a vision of a better society and valued reason but they were too comfortable or too afraid to fundamentally question the status quo of the time it was probably a smart thing to do you have to see when the world is ready to accept such a change and when it has to be slowly introduced this resulted of course to many other voices who could profoundly shake the world out of its lethargy being overheard ignored lost or forgotten oh there was also the penalty of death that can shut many mouths too he mentioned an example which combines a bit of both the lengthy testament of meslier a french priest who lived in the 18th century and who grew to despise his religion because he saw what the church but also blind belief did to the people of his province he was a kind man and loved his people and denied not only the church but also the existence of a naturally good god in a world where evil injustice and ignorance even exist he is apparently well educated in theosophical issues and he knows his bible so his arguments are quite good it always surprises me when i read thoughts written in centuries long gone with direct application to today s modern society well meslier was much more rational clever and educated than many people today how sad is that in the age of information anyway i m slightly drifting away from my point which was voltaire maybe the most prominent figure of the enlightenment as some of you may have already guessed this book is called the testament of meslier because it s just that his testament he lived his life in fear of revealing his thoughts and not unjustifiable he would lose his job and everything he had possibly including his life so this book circulated in the circles of scholars of the age after his death and eventually voltaire recognizing its value decided to publish it a concise edition of it by doing so he apparently left out an enormous amount of accusations against the church and god himself he presented meslier more as a deist than an atheist the result many radical ideas were presented in a much more submissive way we can see that the pioneers of enlightenment chose a more conservative radical way and these are the values of enlightenment we have today in our minds when we speak about these years we can however re evaluate these principles and search even further in the works of those who had a brighter vision of the future the way too radical side yet other people accuse the enlightenment to be too radical too reasonable and thus devoid of emotion and morality now the fact that some too many people seem to think reason and logic are the opposites of emotion and morality is too an important problem to discuss here it should get its own article i wonder however all these people who talk about the immoral society in which enlightenment has led us how would they define ethics and moral laws if not by logic they praise tradition and emotion but can you use these to establish an objective map of human rights and dictate moral behavior traditions are regional and it s all too easy to see they re often wrong human sacrifice was a tradition in many places once we didn t get over this by being more conservative and emotional but by being more reasonable the same goes for slavery women rights working conditions etc our society sure has its issues but it is much more ethical than it used to be i think it s safe to say that at no other time in human history so far were there so many people caring about other people s rights and welfare and i don t mean about people who are in our comfort zone or belong in our group but for people who may live far away or have opinions totally different than we have atheists promoting irreligion and fighting for the religious rights of minorities could be a good example humanistic organizations try to help people in underdeveloped lands in a variety of ways and there were even cases where the international judgment managed to save people from death sentences or provided refugee to people whose lives were in danger that immoral society actually does something no society has ever done before by defying stagnant traditions and thinking rationally people managed to ascent beyond their own little private worlds and started fighting for a better future for everyone and all that because we put aside the differences created by traditions and irrational fears uncontrolled and unexplained emotions and we try to use our brains to get to rational conclusions being logical doesn t mean you re emotionless you re just analyzing your emotions and learn from them instead of blindly act without ever stopping to think about it all in all enlightenment did change our world for the better and we shouldn t discard its ideas so quickly there were values there that transcend beyond the limits of their age and we should keep looking for using and developing them further reading a wicked company an intro to enlightenment the enlightenment s true radicals previous article afterthoughts on the 1st speech next article afterthoughts on the 2nd speech δημοσιεύτηκε στο ηθική κοινωνία ετικετοποιημένο ehyd enlightenment philipp blom σχολιάστε 28 αυγούστου 2013 by iokaste ehyd afterthoughts on the 1st speech as expected this speech made me think a lot about religion and how we evaluate its place in our society for better or worse when there are conservative problems depriving a minority of people of their rights religion is always somewhere there usually in the front row of the opposition scaring people into hating each other again for better or worse christianity is the main religion in europe so that ll be my main target it doesn t mean i don t dislike other religions just as much now dislike is a strong word and might annoy even some fellow humanists atheists but my reasons are explained in detail sophie in t veld mentioned at some point how beautiful the diversity we have is variety helps us progress as people improve ourselves she said a story about a conversation with 2 people one from an ex communist country and one from spain the first one said that in eu he found his freedom the freedom to believe without being prosecuted for it the second one said that in eu he found his freedom the freedom to be an atheist without being prosecuted for it and there they are both free in different ways and living in harmony with each other that is indeed all very nice but the moral of this story is not that it is beautiful when people believe in different things the moral of this story is that you shouldn t force any believe or the lack of it to anyone you can t make someone be an atheist that s absurd and stupid but you can and you must educate people variety is nice when we like different colors and so we make our worlds colorful and happy or black and shadowy now that s variety variety is nice when i don t like mushrooms in my pizza and i give them to my friend who loves them variety is nice when we have different experiences and we share them seeing the world from another point of view and maybe even re examining some of our ideas now imagine this you walk in a conversation where one person says lightning comes from zeus another says it comes from thor and another one says it comes from invisible fairies who squeeze the clouds what are you thoughts oh gosh what a great variety of ideas it just made me a better person to listen to all these different opinions about how lightning comes i better not tell them the truth and ruin that which they choose to believe i sure hope not most people would at least try to explain that this is not a great mystery we know what causes lightings ok not all of us can explain it in perfect scientific terms but we have a notion of what s going on and good guy wikipedia is always available for things like that of course it s a real photo sweetie well i don t know how to break this to you but that s what religions are a distorted and wrong idea about what s going on and loads of people who lie to themselves and defy their logic in order to keep an irrational faith and no this is not an elitist opinion it s a simple fact there are 2 big categories of christians 1 i accept everything the church says and does they are the word of god on earth ok i don t think it s really necessary to say much about why these people are dangerous but just in case these people accept amazingly lots of false information regarding scientific social and ethical matters i met someone who thinks the earth is 6000 old how on this surprisingly young earth can i marvel in the variety of ideas there he s just wrong it s so wrong that i can t help disliking people like that because they could know the truth and they choose not to that is plain stupidity in my dictionary there are things that we know things that we ve known for years and things that the scientists know and we don t yet cause let s face it we don t bother learning them it doesn t mean god and the bible are the explanation that s actually the opposite of explanation as dawkins said if you use god to explain a phenomenon not only you don t explain it but you also stop yourself from finding its real cause because you stop looking for it also these are the people who will kill someone because their faith says so they are more extreme in some countries and explode themselves killing hundreds and subtler in other countries just letting a woman die to avoid an abortion i have to note here that they somehow fail to inform people that sex before marriage is also a sin so having a bunch of unmarried underage mothers is somehow ok unlike using condoms or having abortions even for medical reasons go figure i never understood why killing is a sin but letting someone die when you could very easily save them is ok how isn t that murder you deny someone the chance to live wake up it s not gonna send you to paradise of course that s the state s fault for allowing this things to exist you just can t have hospitals that treat people only if it fits their believes so for this category of believers i think it s quite straightforward why the marvelous variety thingy doesn t work it s reason and sanity against irrationality and crazy behavior i m not saying we should force them to think otherwise i just think and hope that proper education would do the trick and of course laws should protect 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