@Scubidu, I have been trying to convince myself that I shouldn't be the first to respond to your post, but the pressure in my mind is too high.

Let me begin by saying that there's little benefit in finding a category for your philosophy. Categorization is finalization and you are still in a journey, so not having a category is the true representation of matters.

Besides, you will never find truth in any party. You are the infundibulum.

Every human individual is in the middle of history indeed. There are always those who came first, and there are others who are coming.

But how will the individual deal with this situation now? No doubt you have seen people denying their present and instead hiding in the past and or hoping in the future. These are the dead people walking, prime categorizers who must kill anything and everything they touch.

But inorder to live, you must face 'the great depression'. See, even Buddha himself went through it! And so did Jesus or Mohammed!

As you stand in the middle of history, you realize that you were nourished by those who have gone, and that you need to nourish those who are coming. That is, you are treading on eternity. This is where the saying, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom' comes from.

Contrary to my earlier understanding of philosophy as an acquisition of knowledge and truth, is my present understanding that philosophy is a search, and utterance of the authentic word. The word of the Lord's presence.

That is, the present must always involve God being Man, for man's sake. And does God, or for that matter the Man God have any category? Of course not! He is! His word is the answer.

Can you now see why not all who say Lord, Lord, will enter the 'Kingdom'?

The fake looks like the authentic, doesn't it?

@tycho. Sorry for the delay it's been one of those weeks. Thanks for your comments, although i'm not sure i may have grasped everything you said, particularly your last question.

I do understand the part about finding your own way by avoiding categorization esp in this society where association with the like-minded is most important for survival. As for the great depression, I find myself most distracted my experiences to get out of it and so the mind becomes carnal and habits remain cyclical. I guess breaking this trend is what is known as genuine experience, a tale to be pasted on through the ages.

But i find it troubling when your searching through religions teachings whose practices are largely supposed to remain static, the text for all ages to last the ages... i wonder if things get lost in translation to the extent the authenticity of word is what the reader makes it. If not then the interpretation of the inspired word is inspired, which is not different than my limited schooling. I have been watching some interesting videos by historian John Taylor Gatto on the origins of the organized school system... an institution built seemly to mold the way we think, but at the same time designed to sway the masses away from free thinking.

So in order for me to know if my journey has an end, I'd be curious to know whether the religious institution or the Godly message was meant to unify mankind to singular vision or give so-called 'dead people' a map to traverse the 'middle of history' until they find their own revelation. hoping i'm made some kind of sense here (it's been a long day).

I have no time for most 'christians' but that does not mean I have time for such stupid shenanigans as this.

If Soren sijui-what is the personification of your ideal then the christians are right to have G-d as the personification of their ideal.

Dont you have a brain to give us your own thoughts and your own perspectives that you have formulated yourself?

AnntiChristy,

Wow.

You've just revealed your arrogance/ignorance in one post.

Soren Kierkegaard actually was a Christian, and had some thoughts on how Christians should live their lives. He wasn't atheistic; actually he was kind of a Christian fundamentalist.

He was an existentialist philosopher, and I know about him cause I've read about existentialism. If you're not that close minded, perhaps you can download lecture 7:

http://www.thegreatcours...rse_detail.aspx?cid=437

Next time, at least familiarise yourself about a topic before breathlessly stating your opinion. I was not attacking christians, you dumbbell.

My spiritual problems began the day I wrongly learned that I needed my mother's warmth. And on each year I added a wish, a need. And as I blew off the candles did I extinguish the flame of my spirit.

And the more I needed, the more I ran to 'God'. A 'God who was seperate from me, a 'God' who was 'so powerful' that he could meet all my needs. My needs became my 'God'.

But now I realize that even as a toddler I didn't need my mother. She was there. And what if she had died just after I was born?

Even as a child I'd stop in my tracks and wonder aloud, 'Who am I'? 'What am I'? And every time, I came with two answers as if I was answering two different questions.

But now I realize that identity is about having one answer to the questions; and realizing that the two questions are really one.

Who am I? The Man God. What am I? The Man God.

And I need nothing. Absolutely nothing.