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Though I always hesitate to apply labels, I would say I'm a transcendentalist. However, there will always be parts of me that emphasis empiricism over my intuition. I tend to seperate the two into spheres where they are most useful. So far I've been quite successful and havn't had any major conflicts, though to others it may sometime seem as if my opinion or outlook changes they are really just two sides of my coin.
You mentioned looking out over a lake...the night sky has always done it for me. Instead of making me feel insignificant, it makes me feel limitless and connected to a whole and all my petty little problems go away (for a time anyway!).
"I believe that a modern transcendentalist can keep the innocence of a simply life even with complicated forces in this world, like that of technology. The tools of gaining knowledge and understanding should not be discarded--the means to set off on new frontiers should not be abandoned. If a person can take complexity, and harness it for simplicity, that, in my opinion, is purity."
I agree with the first part. The last sentence, that is what we do, learn complex things which make them simple once theyre understood, but I don't follow on the purity thing. That just doesnt seem to fit/apply here to me. What do you mean?
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