A preview of apathy.
Text posts are hard to come by these days. Now that new tasks are at hand, I am suppose to be in a way, more vigorous in documenting more thoughts to contribute to further research projects revolving around the apathetic notions that manifest within our dealings with faith.
1. There’s always this boldness that accompanies those that find themselves least concerned about what others think of them. One the other hand, everybody steps up into a different level of mastery in detail when there is the fear of a certain failure or disappointment. I have come to believe that the way one moves around both extremes of this spectrum is a dynamic process rather than a constant hold on a certain position at all times. Therefore what are the catalysts that causes a person to shift? is it possible that the perception of one’s worth of another, the capacity for one to empathize and recognize another individual’s worth as somewhat equal if not more valuable than others, makes one care more?
2. As much as alot of people claim that their belief systems are governed by what is deemed logical and cold hard facts, most people, if not all, are more humanely governed by a dynamic sway between skepticism and blindness. To be extremely skeptic towards a certain idea, is to also to give yourself a certain blindness towards the flaws of your current belief system. The truth is, people have to believe in something at a certain time. Believing in nothing, is a believe system by itself. Why is this important? I believe its because there’s always something that everybody clinches on to, and its not logic that holds an idea as much as our stubbornness to admit to one that there might be certain flaws even in the things we believe in.
3. Apathy exists by default. there is no way you can add unto it, as much as you can’t add darkness unto light. If fact, nobody wants to believe in anything unless they think they have to. The snap decision of putting a porkchop that came from a specific pig in your mouth is rarely preconceived with immense fact-finding or rationalized before hand- so is the subsequent thousands of meals that follow the rest of your life. It just happens when the time you need to think about it, comes. Same goes to faith; we’re not apathetic by logic, we’re that only because most don’t think they need it.
arh, 3 points to expand.