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matt_doyle... after a brief interlude wondering about the oddness of my dreams last night, which are too muddled and insufficiently narrative to relate, but which did involve, at one point, me standing naked in a girl's locker room while two female acquaintances wondered why the Hell I was there...
Anyway. For some reason this morning I started thinking about a series of conversations I had in college with my good friend (best friend, during my undergrad years) Chris. Chris and I, both Christian, both rather philosophical, and similar in our beliefs in many ways, found we had remarkable disparities in our beliefs about the afterlife, and so we set to tracking down why.
Over the course of three years we spent between three hundred and five hundred hours discussing the nature of heaven. This was not our only discussion topic, nor our only philosophical debate, but week after week we returned to it -- after dinner, while lounging in our room, weekends, between classes... step by step, distinction by distinction, we parsed our beliefs and the rationale behind them, until we came to the final conclusion that there was one root difference from which the rest proceeded.
Chris believed that, among the organizing principles of the cosmos, Logic was the most important, the most primal, and Aesthetics was second. I believed (and mostly still believe) that Aesthetics comes before Logic.
It's remarkable what a difference that makes in worldview.
No particular useful observation to make about all this. It's just that it all came very vividly to mind this morning.
Anyway. For some reason this morning I started thinking about a series of conversations I had in college with my good friend (best friend, during my undergrad years) Chris. Chris and I, both Christian, both rather philosophical, and similar in our beliefs in many ways, found we had remarkable disparities in our beliefs about the afterlife, and so we set to tracking down why.
Over the course of three years we spent between three hundred and five hundred hours discussing the nature of heaven. This was not our only discussion topic, nor our only philosophical debate, but week after week we returned to it -- after dinner, while lounging in our room, weekends, between classes... step by step, distinction by distinction, we parsed our beliefs and the rationale behind them, until we came to the final conclusion that there was one root difference from which the rest proceeded.
Chris believed that, among the organizing principles of the cosmos, Logic was the most important, the most primal, and Aesthetics was second. I believed (and mostly still believe) that Aesthetics comes before Logic.
It's remarkable what a difference that makes in worldview.
No particular useful observation to make about all this. It's just that it all came very vividly to mind this morning.
