PHILOSOPHY

            It is the art of thinking, the art of asking things. According to my teacher back in college, it is the love of wisdom. Since it is philosophy, let me ask you what is wisdom? If you don’t know the answer, here it is, it is your ability to choose what is right and what is wrong. It’s the ability to differentiate the truth from a lie and vice versa. Choosing between wrong and right seems easy, but still, there are many who chose the wrong way. You tend to believe that the “wrong” was the right, even if it’s wrong. The wrong can never be right and right can never be wrong. They are disjoint and separated like 2 phases of a coin.

            I remember the theory of duality that states, everything in this world is made up of 2 things: the opposites. There’s this night and day, good and evil, light and dark, intelligent and stupid, rich and poor, happy and sad, and many more. These things are there to be recognized but even though it seems very clear and understandable... many people cling into the wrong way. Some might be standing between two corners in which one walk in holy and some walk in the opposite. But, how can you be holy in a world stained with sin? Well, as you believe to God through Jesus Christ- walk into his path all the day of your life, then, you are holy.

            The topic of philosophy really goes back to “God.” Since philosophy is the art of questions and all questions don’t have answer because indeed we walk with this limitation that we can’t grasp. In philosophy, you start to ask the origin of the universe, the beginning of the earth and mankind, the species and many things. You start to ask about yourself things in this world, seen and unseen. Almost everything we ask nowadays are actually answered through scientific explanation. Scientist tries to prove everything we ask by showing it to the audience or try to grasp the question and put in box. They try to reason out with their procedures and systematic approach. They have succeeded in different aspects of life in terms of making life easier through invention, improving health condition, understanding human behaviour, anatomy of living things and so on. Indeed, there are many things science had contributed and rediscovered. Scientist even deduced the origin of the universe through “Big-Bang,” and a lot more! Yet in my reflection, in a way science had tried to grasp and unravel the world, it seems like it so procedural and is focused more on logical thinking and coming up with real-proof. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing. It’s a good thing yet I’m afraid that we may lose our “being human” that can’t be systematized nor put in a box to be analyzed. I believed that we are more than being logical, we are greater than what most people think. That we are precious and more valuable compared to what humans creates, which is the “scientific method” perhaps. Or even the language of almost everything, “math” We are far more precious. Those were created by the people like ourselves, and I believed that we are still greater than what we (humans) made! We being a rational thinker is not so much a bad thing since it is how we do our daily tasks and solve most of the problems. Yet again, we should not make our reasoning be the sole basis of our judgement. Let the “feeling” do its own way since we’re made to become humans and not robot.

            Going back to the questions we have in mind, about wisdom. Almost everything has answers yet many of us are still sceptical, many of us doubts and mistrust. We were given options to choose what really is right and wrong. What really is correct and false. But even so, what really becomes right is what you believe is right, What really is correct depends on what you believe. It is somehow relative to how a person sees the world. I think respect is what we need. Since even though we were feed with many proofs and to believe and think in a certain way, there will still be divergent among us. I personally believe that science can’t answer everything, it is just my hunch (based on my statement above). There’s this space of doubts in my mind, waiting to be filled with the truth someday, which I believed only the Almighty God can reveal. Some were given answers but in human perspectives, it will always be not enough. Which I consider a mystery, left out to be unanswered.