Just One Point of View

I was thinking more about the free will subject after class and I remembered the movie The Minority Report. In this futuristic movie, people are being put in prison before they commit the crime. This is by these the help of three people who get visions of future murders. By the end of the movie all the people are freed because it was found that in reality they cannot know for sure if a person would commit a crime until it was already done.

Now in class it was debated if we still had free will if God knows all. I believe we still do. God may know what we will chose to do and lets us chose it even if he does not agree. He knows what we are going to do before we do it and by letting us do it we have free will. What I mean is that He could very well stop our existence if He knew we would fall but because He loves us and grants us free will He let us be. He let us live to understand His justice. We have to experience life and our choices in order to know ourselves and all those watching us from afar that do not know what God Himself does know.

The fact that we exist to make the choice of doing what is already known to God is the reason we can say we have been given the choice to choose.

What Have We Done?

Common sense is basically what is commonly sensed by people. In other words it is like the majority rules. Its true that most of the time common sense is usually correct and reliable. However there have been moments in history in which common sense has been found mistaken and seems to turn the world upside down. Horrible things have happened to people because they were thought as crazy or that their words were absurd and impossible. How many truths have we lost throughout the ages because of our common sense.

Now I am not saying that relying on our common sense is not reasonable but this is just something to think about. Really. I wonder what have we done in the past. Could we have killed the only person who would have given us the answer to everything or perhaps burned the only proof of our true purpose to our being? Have we had more than one chance to reveal the truth and missed it? Will we have another chance at it?

The more I think of this the more it bothers me. I really want to know. Even if I looked through history books and help find lost scripts the answer would be incomplete. History is so fragile. One day all proof of our history could be turned to ash and all that could be left are our unreliable memories. How can such questions be found? Maybe all this has happened before and we are just victims of this never ending cycle. Who knows? Maybe someone knew, But how can we know that now?

Are We the Problem?

In the novel Sophie's World, a teenage girl finds herself learning about philosophy. One of the examples given to her to help her learn went something like this... a mother and baby are in a kitchen and a third person is either walking on the roof or floating in the air. I'm sorry I do not remember exactly. Anyway, the mother of the baby is terrified at the scene, yet the baby sees nothing unusual and continues giggling as if nothing weird has happened.

To the baby the person floating was just something new and no different than someone walking up to him or her. The mother on the other hand is filled with fear because a person floating is something that to her knowledge cannot happen, something that should not happen. To her it is impossible.

This is something that came into my mind throughout the week during class. We spoke about how a pen will always fall when it is let go in the air. If we were to believe that everything is like a dream, perhaps the pen always falls because that is what makes sense to us. Perhaps deep in our subconscience we believe that the pen will always fall and therefore it does. Maybe we are not open to other possibilities anymore because we have never let ourselves experience them before. What if we can allow that pen to float and then it does because we can believe it actually can.

I know this sounds weird and unreasonable, but just think, what if it were so. After all, we do only use part of our brain and not all of it. What if the part we do not use allows us to discover the unknown or maybe let what we now don't comprehend, happen.

The Senses

Recently we have been talking about what reality really is and how what we see,hear, feel, smell, and taste could be fake. Well I have been wondering about why we have those senses. Why can we do all that stuff? Can we live without all of them?

I took Developmental Psychology during this summer and during the class we discussed about the senses. It was talked about a tank that numbs all the senses of a person. Inside is a kind of fluid that is kept at body temperature so that the sense of feeling is gone. In there the other senses cannot be used either.

My professor said that in just moments a person loses track of time and cannot handle being in that state. As if they are slowly turning toward insanity. They just want to get out.

Does this change anything? To me it seems as if we cannot live without them. Does this make them any less real than out thoughts? Perhaps they are just as real. Or maybe they are not real and are just there like food and water. However, our senses could be even more important than all the other things and with our thoughts probably construct reality.