I am dazzled because I was never disturbed by Secretes before. I blame it on the Saudi education system, for teaching us so much crap and missing the most important subject on earth, philosophy.
Do they fear philosophy because it brings more questions than answers?
I remember school; all of my teachers were mere teachers, most of them will be forgotten for very few of them managed to move anything inside students. They bear knowledge only and no ability to question it or entice students to question it. They more often than not discouraged legitimate questioning. Is this why we have a dumb generation after a dumber generation in Saudi Arabia and the world?
A question has more power than all the knowledge in the world, because the answer of every good question is another question, and because this series of questions teach us the most important phrase, which is “We know nothing” ~Secretes.
There is nothing dumber than taking ready answers for granted. Nothing dumber than to put superstitions as an answer to any question we fail to answer with certainty.
Why is my mood bad today? Because it is your fate.. Or because your stars aren’t aligned well.. Or because a black cat passed in front of you… why do we accept dumb answers to our simple questions?
Dumb answers are definite. You have no way of refuting or accepting. Everything stops after a dumb answer, especially your mind. The most widely accepted dumb answer is: because God decided so.
Why do we teach ourselves to accept dumb answers? Why are we inclined to call those know-it-alls wise?
Those people always make me want to kill myself. They lecture because they think they know, they think they are so knowledgeable and wise because they are mostly older with a loud voice and a charismatic tone. Why do I not have the courage to tell them stop, you think you know but you don’t know?
Is there anything more dangerous than believing? Believing is to accept an answer as it is true. Believing gives immunity to the idea, and it makes it harder to refute in your mind. Why do we trust to give anything immunity from the almighty question mark? Bold is the superpowering of ideas, why would we make an idea a superpower for it to crush and control our other thoughts?
The truth is the only idea that does not die from the beam of doubt. A person cannot call himself a seeker for the truth before controlling this great weapon, and before having the courage to shoot at every idea.
The question mark is worshipped when questioned… No double standard, for it is a weapon that can be used against itself…
Radi Alzayer
23rd of April 2011
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By far, I've not been entertained by any blog entry more than this one you wrote here (especially the first half).
ReplyDeleteI reckon the English spelling for the philosopher you mention is Socrates, and his approach of learning and teaching is indeed fantastic.