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Religion
Limits Horizons
Religion is a condition and all condition limits human beings in their interaction to its totality with one another spontaneously and unconditionally. Can we restucture religion to allow human beings unconditional interaction with one another regardless of their religious affiliations or background? If we could, humanity would be able to bring heaven down on earth. If not, then only hell! What do we choose? Restructuring the attitude of religion is effected by the correct body posture and the correct face expression. So Focus - restructuring the attitude of religion program - comprises the correction of both; that, in turn, opens the third eye chakra and the crown chakra. When searching for the meaning of life, this meaning needs to be grounded to something, it needs a vehicle. A vehicle for meaning is something that carries the value, the thing that is valuable, which in turn can provide meaning. The vehicles for meaning that religion can provide are numerous, for example: the church as a community, the relationship to a god, the promise of an afterlife etcetera. To answer the question whether religion can provide a grounding of values, we need to investigate what sort of vehicle religion is, compared to non religious values systems as means for providing meaning. Religion is not able to provide a solid foundation for values; religion as a foundation for meaning is a metaphysical sky-hook. It does not provide a solid foundation because it can not be rationally or empirically justified. The justification for religion is not based on rational thinking or observation, but on revalation. But, does this really matter? Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem shows that not every true statement can be proven through rational arguments. The incompleteness theorem thus leaves some space for religious and other non-rational statements to provide truth. Religious knowledge can, however, not be verified, as it is based on revalation. Revelation is a very personal experience and therefore neither open to verification nor falsification. Religion can thus not provide a solid (rational) foundation for meaning. Rational thinking, mainly in the form of science, can, however, also not provide a solid foundation. David Hume has shown that some very basic assumptions we make about the world around us can not be rationally verified. Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem also limits the reach of rational reasoning, as not all truth can be rationally justified. Hume's scepticism, combined with Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem shows us that science is also not able to provide a solid foundation for meaning. After 2,500 years of philosophical thinking we have come to a point were we are forced to realise that there are no rational justifications for the big questions. For a lot of people, this understanding that life is essentially futile can be an agonising thought. The thought that life has no meaning whatsoever - the thought the our lives will end in blackness - has driven many people to suicide. This typical human condition is something we have to live with and there are basically two possible reactions. First of all we can 'invent' - without any rational justification - a vehicle for meaning. This is what happens in religion. If there is no rational basis for these beliefs, how can we decide which vehicle is the better one, as there is no truth criterium. The individual systems can only be justified internally, as we have no value system outside religion to make a call. The other option is to embrace the futility and meaninglessness of life. In this option we need philosophy to be able to cope with this. Our vehicle for meaning is a metaphysical hot-air balloon - not anchored to anything - enjoying a conceptionless perspective upon life. In my weekend training session for restructuring the attitude of religion, I just correct your body posture and face expression; and the restructuring ensues. You discover the real physical nature of your body that instantly makes you feel like giving space to the other as a result of undergoing restructuring the attitude of religion program. The only thing left, then, is to turn this personal discovery into your spontaneity - of body and mind; and the instant restructuring of the attitude of religion turns into the lasting restructuring of the attitude of religion for life! |
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