Is there a danger of over intellectualising things, of taking things to pieces and examining all sides before
reassembling and passing them on for something else.
Does one in the process miss the under laying story, the emotional story, the story about belief which can't be
examined and dissected, only believed in its entirety.
Faith in something other than the common sense which you see and ponder about, it includes "the joy that passes
all man's understanding".
To
be described as pragmatic is never to be disappointed, never to feel
let down or feel disappointment for things which are out of reach. The pragmatist
believes himself to be the realist, feet planted firmly on the ground, he or
she believes in what
they can see or touch and rejects the assumptions made by the believers
in their religious causation, a method we have evolved of placing our
lives in the hands of a benign creator with
the true reward, after death.
It's
difficult arguing for space to find your own salvation in this life
here on earth. The intensity of religious belief or belief in rebirth is
so strong that ones own muddled thoughts about your own life and death
have little substance
when compared to the collective assurance of so many.
But
doubt for doubting sake is a characteristic of a thinking individual.
To question even the syntax of a statement, the use of words which may
evoke
a different meaning in the secular world raises the ire of the believer
because in
his or her belief, these questions are answered in their commitment to unquestioned belief.
But for those with no footing amongst a quagmire of conflicting claims, the effort to remain grounded in the simple
things and not embark in flights of fancy are what keeps us sane.
Never the less there is the lingering doubt that we could be wrong and in the face of such faith based positivity, it
takes a stalwart to stay within the bounds of pragmatic surety.
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