am of the opinion that "it's a fine line" should be removed as a phrase from our lives. Why? Well because it applies to EVERYTHING!
Why is it that everything is a shade of gray? Why are there not things that are just inherently good? Or for that matter inherently bad? Everything is a judgement call, and to people like myself, who are seekers of truth, that is just downright exasperating. Oh, now I know what you say, that there are SOME things that are indeed absolute, at least on the good-bad scale. I beg to differ.
Faith? Good... unless it becomes zealotry.
Caring? Good... unless it's smothering.
Intellect? Good... unless it takes you away from possibility.
Hatred? Bad... unless it helps you fight the good fight.
Lying? Bad... unless it saves someone to do so.
So many things that are ambiguous and up to interpretation. Moderation seems the key, and yet there are people such as myself that say with moderation comes mediocrity, and that there is no forward motion in the world. I agree that in extremes good things can become bad, but I almost wonder if they don't become something else in that process.
Some people might disagree with some or all the assumptions I made above. And the truth is, even the greatest philosophers of all time have never agreed that there is a moral truth to anything. Even in what are considered things set in stone, man's mind interprets. Let 10 people read the Bible, and they will tell you it means 10 different things.
I am not a scientist, but I love the clean truth that lies in it. It amuses me that math is my least favorite subject, and yet it seems that it is the only aspect of life which I can truly find the truth that I look for always. Math only becomes more complex and understood, it never changes. 2+2 ALWAYS = 4. No one ever changes it. Our understanding may change, and new methods may be found, but it is TRUE. Nothing else seems to be that way. Why on Earth would anyone like me be born with a desire to seek truth?
Well, that was a fun rant. Perhaps next time something more substantive.
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