Even though it’s been many decades since I was a young child, my bum remains sore from all the time spent sitting on the unpadded oak benches that populate many rural churches, most of those churches being Baptist, or a derivative thereof. And as psychologists have shown, it’s these early childhood years in which our basic personality is formed, “We remain recognizably the same person … it does follow us wherever we go across time and contexts.” (Nave as cited by livescience.com 2010). Our basic personality follows us throughout life. It is also believed, that within these early years our basic values and religious beliefs are formed. In a report by David Roach, he cites studies conducted by researchers at the Boston University, Harvard,
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We call this Socratic Ignorance, after one of history’s greatest thinkers. Socrates did not consider himself a man of wisdom, and set out to prove it by talking to the educated politicians, inspired poets, and skilled craftsmen of his time. He deduced they all considered themselves more knowing than they really were, which led Socrates to the conclusion that he was the wiser because only he was aware of his own ignorance (simple ignorance), and they were not (double ignorance). In his apology to Plato, he said only the words of god were truly wise, and human wisdom was worth little or nothing (J. Ambury …show more content…
A time not unlike when we were kids raking Fall leaves from the yard, and piling them into large heaps. We then proceeded to jump into those leaves, until exhaustion, eventually leaving us laying on the heap of leaves, sunny-side up staring into the sky, our minds full of wonder and amazement. In this minute allotment of time, our time of wonder and awe, we often find ourselves pondering over the most sacred of thoughts: What is my purpose? What is life? What’s this all this about? What if the answer is right there with us, in that miniscule of moments, during that time we are free of our physical constraints and full of wonder, and awe, and questions, and all the things that make us more than a collection of parts? What if the answer is simply, to be
We call this Socratic Ignorance, after one of history’s greatest thinkers. Socrates did not consider himself a man of wisdom, and set out to prove it by talking to the educated politicians, inspired poets, and skilled craftsmen of his time. He deduced they all considered themselves more knowing than they really were, which led Socrates to the conclusion that he was the wiser because only he was aware of his own ignorance (simple ignorance), and they were not (double ignorance). In his apology to Plato, he said only the words of god were truly wise, and human wisdom was worth little or nothing (J. Ambury …show more content…
A time not unlike when we were kids raking Fall leaves from the yard, and piling them into large heaps. We then proceeded to jump into those leaves, until exhaustion, eventually leaving us laying on the heap of leaves, sunny-side up staring into the sky, our minds full of wonder and amazement. In this minute allotment of time, our time of wonder and awe, we often find ourselves pondering over the most sacred of thoughts: What is my purpose? What is life? What’s this all this about? What if the answer is right there with us, in that miniscule of moments, during that time we are free of our physical constraints and full of wonder, and awe, and questions, and all the things that make us more than a collection of parts? What if the answer is simply, to be