There are many perspectives in the world and even just within the United States. I would like to take these perspectives and focus on different issues. To see what people believe and why they believe it.
If many people could keep an open mind on the other side of every issue and see where they are coming from the world could be a better place. Even if there is a complete disagreement on an issue the two people could see that there view may not be the only right one.
I would like to keep things on a philosophical level and a psychological level of understanding. For example many people would just examine an issue like abortion as being for it or against it but I would like to recognize the motive and reasoning behind each decision and realize within the choice people answer differently.
Most topics will end up falling into moral and ethical codes usually set by religious and political beliefs. So there will be religion and politics incorporated into most if not all of the posts. By entering into religion and politics there will be many strong views against each other but I want to hear out the multiple sides. This may cause the posts to be controversial but when many sides are expressed and no side is viewed as wrong, stupid, or evil, which are all opinionated words that don't hold consistency or true absolute meaning.
Since I am a human being and I think there is a bias formed around what I believe politically and religiously that may cause me to take a side on some issues but won't cause me to negatively portray the opposing view.
In perspectives there is a cultural barrier to be portrayed that typically isn't. There are three categories of economies in the world called first, second and third world countries. The lack in education in the second and third world countries has impaired there view from what most first world countries see as issues. For instance pollution is a first world issue but the second and third world countries are still on survival as illustrated in Maslow's heirarchy of needs chart.
Back to a more philosophical view there are even opposing sides in this area and the most notorious and earliest philosophical opposition is Plato and Aristotle. Plato believed that reality is all perspective and that the world thinks they live in reality when they are really in a shadow of reality. He focused on the ideological and theoretical and believed the ideological is the reality and like his teacher Socrates his intellect is above all other humans.
Alternatively Aristotle believed that the world around us is concrete and real not just ideal. He believed that humans are not stupid and worth getting to know.
I believe both have valid points there is a level of mind over matter that is ideological but there is a concrete world we live in. There view on humans is interesting because I have met some complete idiots that don't want to hear what anyone else has to say and some people worth talking to.
So the future posts that will take place on this site will focus around what has been mentioned above. Although left very broad the topics are focused around a simplistic view and will help establish hopefully more understanding and welcoming people. Reguardless of that task being accomplished there will be a self-realization of what are the readers true moral values and ethics.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
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While you hold political and religious views almost equally I hold political views in a much higher regard than religious views due to my belief that religion tends to be contradictory. I enjoy topics that might be controversial because they can be informative and honest. The way you have decided to relay your information is interesting and I look forward to seeing both sides of the issue presented as opposed to a usualy heavy bias.
ReplyDeletei agree with some of the points you make. i also like the overall topic. i think we are blessed to have diff. perspectives bcuz the world would be a dull place if everyone agreed on everything. one thing i wantd to comment on specifically was the third world part of your blogg. i think that it is the fact that they have less education and are in poverty that keeps they from being blinded to the REAL issues of the world. sometimes too much education can be harmful to your intuition and common sense
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