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While I agree with the Chaplin quote, I think that this is a very difficult thing to discuss in on the TFP. How can you sit on the philosophy board and wax intellectually about how we might be waxing too much intellectually? Yet that is what I think that we do. Rationalism and modernism go hand in hand and we're not content until we've found the complete and objective truth. God, love and other such emotionally related issues are seen as either abstracts, weaknesses or both by the modern intellectual.
Hopefully the world will focus more on learning from the wisdom of irrationality. If we seek only what can be proven by our intellect then we will be grasping at nothingness and considering ourselves wise. Perhaps we should focus more on the fact that there is no absolute, 100% proveable truth and instead allow our instincts to guide us more. Perhaps we should cling to that which gives us pleasure instead of making virtues out of all forms of abstinance. Think less, feel more and not be afraid to act.
Then again, I'm just thinking about this.
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