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March 19th 2008 19:25
Just label it "shock and awe" and leave centuries of human reasoning out of it.
From the beginning of time, mankind has pursued the ultimate causes of things. Certain common rules based on logic were put in place. Today, however, we seem to just put a label on something and then use the term as if we understand what it represents automatically.
President Bush and company started the Iraq war with the "shock and awe" label. This worked to cover the killing fields of innocent victims in the process of bombings and a fast mobile tank army rushing to Bagad shooting at anything in sight or not in sight. With our high technlogical army, we can supposedly hone in on a target with 100 percent accuracy and yet the "shock and awe" controlled the show. We watch it on TV with bright bursting lights across the screen which hid the actual results of "shock and awe" on innocent victims on the ground. Viewers came away from the screens thinking they saw the war close up.
"Shock and awe" was not only a military attack but it was an attack on human reason. It is difficult to believe mankind has evolved to things like this after beginning with intellectual marvels like Plato and Aristotle. For the past few generations, they became only books on the shelves and with portions of their discoveries noted in class rooms. What did they have to do with "shock and awe" especially after President Bush said his favorite philosopher was "Jesus" who was never really a philosopher. From time to time in history , mankind has received revelations from God through special messengers like Moses. Then Jesus Christ appeared in the world and claimed to be divine as well as human . Claiming to be divine, Jesus Christ was not a philosopher for he was proclaiming to be all including perfect love and truth.
Philosophy is the study of being as being and the search for truth. In Jesus, the study becomes an act of the free will to choose Jesus as above all philosophies. In our times, we have politicians who cover this with "shock and awe".
Many writers followed and tried to document what Jesus said and mankind did receive authoritive answers evolving over centuries of study and included philsophy in the conclusions. This is called tradition where mankind does not have to search out the truth over and over again. Still many choose other ways to cover their unreasonable actions.
Great minds developed this tradition and sought to prove divine teachings with the use of unaided human reason. St. Augustine sought to combine the great system of Plato with the system of Catholic thought based on Sacred Scriptures. St Augustine re-examined the thinking process of Ancient Greed Plato and established an unaided human reason philosophy to prove the divine revelations. St. Thomas Aquinas followed combining the studies of Aristotle with Scripture. This proved to be the greatest and most complete system of all times, know as Scholasticism. Today St. Thomas Aquinas remains the prime author of Catholic philosophy and theology. It represents a study with a great degree of completeness. It remains the best explanation of the ultimate puzzle for the human mind so far. However, I found that work and labor are stepchildren of philosophy and they are waiting to be claimed in the global economic arena.
Unfortunately, those outside the Catholic Faith have problems in distinguishing the unaided human reasoning outside the scope of the Catholic religion. St. Thomas Aquinas can only bring you to the door of Faith and Jesus then asks you to knock to have the final door to your mind and soul opened. It is a conversion experience, where philosophy and even theology is limited in your rationale quest. Still to ignore the tremendous evolution of unaided human reason is a terrible mistake. In out western civilization, we have made this mistake and that is why a label like "shock and awe" covers the awful sins of mankind.
By Ray Tapajna, Editor and Artist at Tapart News and Art that Talks
Label it "shock and awe
From the beginning of time, mankind has pursued the ultimate causes of things. Certain common rules based on logic were put in place. Today, however, we seem to just put a label on something and then use the term as if we understand what it represents automatically.
President Bush and company started the Iraq war with the "shock and awe" label. This worked to cover the killing fields of innocent victims in the process of bombings and a fast mobile tank army rushing to Bagad shooting at anything in sight or not in sight. With our high technlogical army, we can supposedly hone in on a target with 100 percent accuracy and yet the "shock and awe" controlled the show. We watch it on TV with bright bursting lights across the screen which hid the actual results of "shock and awe" on innocent victims on the ground. Viewers came away from the screens thinking they saw the war close up.
"Shock and awe" was not only a military attack but it was an attack on human reason. It is difficult to believe mankind has evolved to things like this after beginning with intellectual marvels like Plato and Aristotle. For the past few generations, they became only books on the shelves and with portions of their discoveries noted in class rooms. What did they have to do with "shock and awe" especially after President Bush said his favorite philosopher was "Jesus" who was never really a philosopher. From time to time in history , mankind has received revelations from God through special messengers like Moses. Then Jesus Christ appeared in the world and claimed to be divine as well as human . Claiming to be divine, Jesus Christ was not a philosopher for he was proclaiming to be all including perfect love and truth.
Philosophy is the study of being as being and the search for truth. In Jesus, the study becomes an act of the free will to choose Jesus as above all philosophies. In our times, we have politicians who cover this with "shock and awe".
Many writers followed and tried to document what Jesus said and mankind did receive authoritive answers evolving over centuries of study and included philsophy in the conclusions. This is called tradition where mankind does not have to search out the truth over and over again. Still many choose other ways to cover their unreasonable actions.
Great minds developed this tradition and sought to prove divine teachings with the use of unaided human reason. St. Augustine sought to combine the great system of Plato with the system of Catholic thought based on Sacred Scriptures. St Augustine re-examined the thinking process of Ancient Greed Plato and established an unaided human reason philosophy to prove the divine revelations. St. Thomas Aquinas followed combining the studies of Aristotle with Scripture. This proved to be the greatest and most complete system of all times, know as Scholasticism. Today St. Thomas Aquinas remains the prime author of Catholic philosophy and theology. It represents a study with a great degree of completeness. It remains the best explanation of the ultimate puzzle for the human mind so far. However, I found that work and labor are stepchildren of philosophy and they are waiting to be claimed in the global economic arena.
Unfortunately, those outside the Catholic Faith have problems in distinguishing the unaided human reasoning outside the scope of the Catholic religion. St. Thomas Aquinas can only bring you to the door of Faith and Jesus then asks you to knock to have the final door to your mind and soul opened. It is a conversion experience, where philosophy and even theology is limited in your rationale quest. Still to ignore the tremendous evolution of unaided human reason is a terrible mistake. In out western civilization, we have made this mistake and that is why a label like "shock and awe" covers the awful sins of mankind.
By Ray Tapajna, Editor and Artist at Tapart News and Art that Talks
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