I have just switched from Theology/Philosophy to Business. Why? Because I want to be able to get a real job after college.
This is not sitting as well with me as I hoped.
I suppose I'm alright with the idea - we have lots of student loans, and business has always been vaguely interesting, and I do believe I'd be good at it in a handful of situations - but I miss my first love. I know I can still pursue philosophy on my own time, but there's not much of one's own time when one is in school - at least not for me, because I'm such a procrastinator, which I could fix if I put forth the effort and tied myself down to a schedule, which is so...cold. And still not studying philosophy. I wish studying WAS philosophy, like it used to be.
I have English Lit 2 this semester, and today we went over Keats and his famous quote:
"Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty" - that is all
ye know, and all ye need to know.
I don't believe this for a second, and it drives me nuts when people accept pithy sayings because they're pithy sayings. The professor kept contrasting this idea to Christianity: "Keats wasn't a Christian, so he didn't have a neat package of 'I'm going to Heaven when I die, so I'm ok', he really struggled with his fear of death"...etc. I'm tired of people thinking that accepting Chrsitanity because someone tells you to is shallow and silly while doing the same thing with pithy sayings like this. Yes of course accepting something without looking into it or checking its validity is stupid. And it's stupid when you do it with fashionable ideas, too!
Yes, for some (maybe most, I don't know) Christians the idea of heaven is a neat package in their minds, and that God is a cosmic babysitter telling them its all going to be ok. This does not reflect on what Christianity actually is and means. Besides, how is that any different than thinking that our afterlife will be essentially composed of those moments of imaginative bliss? Keats, you were no more logical. I was watching a Youtube video of a girl saying what her "philosophy" was about death - first, she said that she doesn't presume to know what happens after death. She's not so cocky as the Christians to think that she has figured out the afterlife. Then, a few minutes later she starts talking about death and how the basic tenant of her view is that she "doesn't pity the dead" - that she knows they're not in pain.
Anyone else see a problem with this??? How is it better to make up whatever you want and say that's the truth? At least Christianity is based on something. It's pure hypocracy (no, I can't spell, get used to it) to say that Christians are all sheep when you change your mind from year to year or month to month or minute to minute based on the last lovely idea you heard. I guess that's my rant for today.
