Philosphy: What Are Your Beliefs/ideology?

[ferrociously_insane]

I always believe in "whatever works"!

[gwapingsz1]

Everything that happens around you are influenced by your actions.

[BudzOrg]

I want forgiveness for all sins as long as these are not willfully done.

[oscartamaguchiblackface]

Here is an insight into the beliefs of Albert Einstein regarding the inter-relationship between science and religion.

 

 

How Einstein Saw the World

Posted on February 16, 2014by Christopher Chasehttp://creativesystemsthinking.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/albert1.jpg?w=432&h=281

 

“School failed me, and I failed the school. It bored me. The teachers behaved like Feldwebel (sergeants). I wanted to learn what I wanted to know, but they wanted me to learn for the exam. What I hated most was the competitive system there, and especially sports. Because of this, I wasn’t worth anything, and several times they suggested I leave.

 

This was a Catholic School in Munich. I felt that my thirst for knowledge was being strangled by my teachers; grades were their only measurement. How can a teacher understand youth with such a system?

 

From the age of twelve I began to suspect authority and distrust teachers. I learned mostly at home, first from my uncle and then from a student who came to eat with us once a week. He would give me books on physics and astronomy.

 

The more I read, the more puzzled I was by the order of the universe and the disorder of the human mind, by the scientists who didn’t agree on the how, the when, or the why of creation.

 

Then one day this student brought me Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. Reading Kant, I began to suspect everything I was taught. I no longer believed in the known God of the Bible, but rather in the mysterious God expressed in nature.

 

The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can’t grasp them. There is a pattern in creation.

 

If we look at this tree outside whose roots search beneath the pavement for water, or a flower which sends its sweet smell to the pollinating bees, or even our own selves and the inner forces that drive us to act, we can see that we all dance to a mysterious tune, and the piper who plays this melody from an inscrutable distance—whatever name we give him—Creative Force, or God—escapes all book knowledge.

 

Science is never finished because the human mind only uses a small portion of its capacity, and man’s exploration of his world is also limited.

 

Creation may be spiritual in origin, but that doesn’t mean that everything created is spiritual. How can I explain such things to you? Let us accept the world is a mystery. Nature is neither solely material nor entirely spiritual.

 

Man, too, is more than flesh and blood; otherwise, no religions would have been possible. Behind each cause is still another cause; the end or the beginning of all causes has yet to be found.

 

Yet, only one thing must be remembered: there is no effect without a cause, and there is no lawlessness in creation.

 

If I hadn’t an absolute faith in the harmony of creation, I wouldn’t have tried for thirty years to express it in a mathematical formula. It is only man’s consciousness of what he does with his mind that elevates him above the animals, and enables him to become aware of himself and his relationship to the universe.

 

I believe that I have cosmic religious feelings. I never could grasp how one could satisfy these feelings by praying to limited objects. The tree outside is life, a statue is dead. The whole of nature is life, and life, as I observe it, rejects a God resembling man.

 

Man has infinite dimensions and finds God in his conscience. [A cosmic religion] has no dogma other than teaching man that the universe is rational and that his highest destiny is to ponder it and co-create with its laws.

 

I like to experience the universe as one harmonious whole. Every cell has life. Matter, too, has life; it is energy solidified. Our bodies are like prisons, and I look forward to be free, but I don’t speculate on what will happen to me.

 

I live here now, and my responsibility is in this world now. I deal with natural laws. This is my work here on earth.

 

The world needs new moral impulses which, I’m afraid, won’t come from the churches, heavily compromised as they have been throughout the centuries.

 

Perhaps those impulses must come from scientists in the tradition of Galileo, Kepler and Newton. In spite of failures and persecutions, these men devoted their lives to proving that the universe is a single entity, in which, I believe, a humanized God has no place.

 

The genuine scientist is not moved by praise or blame, nor does he preach. He unveils the universe and people come eagerly, without being pushed, to behold a new revelation: the order, the harmony, the magnificence of creation!

 

And as man becomes conscious of the stupendous laws that govern the universe in perfect harmony, he begins to realize how small he is. He sees the pettiness of human existence, with its ambitions and intrigues, its ‘I am better than thou’ creed.

 

This is the beginning of cosmic religion within him; fellowship and human service become his moral code. Without such moral foundations, we are hopelessly doomed.

 

If we want to improve the world we cannot do it with scientific knowledge but with ideals. Confucius, Buddha, Jesus and Gandhi have done more for humanity than science has done.

 

We must begin with the heart of man—with his conscience—and the values of conscience can only be manifested by selfless service to mankind.

 

Religion and science go together. As I’ve said before, science without religion is lame and religion without science is blind. They are interdependent and have a common goal—the search for truth.

 

Hence it is absurd for religion to proscribe Galileo or Darwin or other scientists. And it is equally absurd when scientists say that there is no God. The real scientist has faith, which does not mean that he must subscribe to a creed.

 

Without religion there is no charity. The soul given to each of us is moved by the same living spirit that moves the universe.

 

I am not a mystic. Trying to find out the laws of nature has nothing to do with mysticism, though in the face of creation I feel very humble. It is as if a spirit is manifest infinitely superior to man’s spirit. Through my pursuit in science I have known cosmic religious feelings. But I don’t care to be called a mystic.

 

I believe that we don’t need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here—to love and to serve.

 

I have faith in the universe, for it is rational. Law underlies each happening. And I have faith in my purpose here on earth. I have faith in my intuition, the language of my conscience, but I have no faith in speculation about Heaven and Hell. I’m concerned with this time—here and now.

 

Many people think that the progress of the human race is based on experiences of an empirical, critical nature, but I say that true knowledge is to be had only through a philosophy of deduction. For it is intuition that improves the world, not just following a trodden path of thought.

 

Intuition makes us look at unrelated facts and then think about them until they can all be brought under one law. To look for related facts means holding onto what one has instead of searching for new facts.

 

Intuition is the father of new knowledge, while empiricism is nothing but an accumulation of old knowledge. Intuition, not intellect, is the ‘open sesame’ of yourself.

 

Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.

 

I do not need any promise of eternity to be happy. My eternity is now. I have only one interest: to fulfill my purpose here where I am.

 

This purpose is not given me by my parents or my surroundings. It is induced by some unknown factors. These factors make me a part of eternity.”

 

~Albert Einstein

 

Text Source: Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man (1983). From a series of meetings William Hermanns had with Einstein in 1930, 1943, 1948, and 1954

 

 

[evilson]

....from nothing to something

[filibustero]

....from nothing to something

 

i.e. ex nihilo

[ketz]

Love God above all.

Do unto others what you want others do unto you.

[jagaruga]

I was agnostic, until convinced by the existence of God, mostly by reading Summa Theologica and listening to lectures by Peter Kreft. I also believe in evolution and that it doesn't contradict to what we know of God.

[asiong]

My belief is that in order to succeed in life one must first must be an understand relationships and how to deal with people. There is one secret to this, it is to love every person you meet.

[Karol Woytija]

I am a Christian but I'm also a part of the Communist Party of the Philippines. They are stereotyped as Atheist or Agnostics but some of us are believers. All we want is to Overthrow the government and to have a equal mass structure.

[Clown_2]

I always believe in the golden rule : Do not do unto others what you do not want others do unto you. In a positive way, Do unto others what you want others do unto you.

[Edmund Dantes]

Success is not determined by your capabilities but by your desire. The level of success you can achieve is always dependent on how much desire you have in you.

[browselang]

Existentialism.

[Julianda]

I was once a student of Theology and now sharing things what I have learned (as part of academics)

And I've realized one does not need a religion to know the basic rules of life.

 

Pragmatism

Law of Attraction

[Edmund Dantes]

Lahat ng utang may kabayaran. Lahat ng masamang desisyon na ginagawa natin me kapalit. Lahat ng kaligayahan na natatamo sa paggawa ng isang bagay na mali ay may katapat na pagdurusa sa huli. Kung ang mga drug lord nga na mayayaman at makakapangyarihan natitiklo at napapatay pa sa huli, ano pa kaya tayo?