Early Philosophers do not have a common ground of their philosophy. Each one of them undergoes speculative thinking about the world – how was the world created, what is the basic form that comprises the world, what is life, etc. All of them wonder about the world and the life. But the world and life is full of mystery.
Before entering the seminary, my first thought about the seminary is that seminarians lives life holy, full of prayer. But when I entered already and live life as a seminarian, it seems I was wrong with my idea of the seminary and of the seminarians. People would thought about us as a good and holy seminarians but the truth is that we are just seemingly good and holy seminarians. Even with the priest in the seminary or in the parish, which some of them I do respect at first and some until now I still respect.
Things can deceive us. Our senses can deceive us. What I have seen is just a seeming of what is really the real. As I found out what is being the seminary and being a seminarian, as I found out the priests who are good at first, this things are still the seeming of my life. What is the true real is a mystery. Essentially the seeming theory of Parmenides with his claim “What is, Is” helps us to discover and explore all the possibilities of the world and life. We should not only stick to what was already given because it can always appear to us seemingly.
Recalling the experiences we had as a human being, we may say that all is just a seeming and there is something beyond which cannot be changed. Heraclitus claim, that all is flux, is just seemingly flux. Because of our lack of understanding about the realities of the world and life, all becomes seeming. But when we fully grasped all about world and life, it will be the time that we are sure about something, a something which is not anymore a seeming yet remain unchangeable.
There is something beyond our being human that is stable and impossible for changing. This something beyond is what we call the mystery of our life. The mystery in which we will always call a mystery because it is clear for us that it is a mystery.
The world becomes balance and stabilizes because of the claim of Heraclitus “what is, is”. If we go deeper on it only our faith can explain everything about the mystery. The mystery that is not a mystery if we have faith and that is Jesus Christ.
Before entering the seminary, my first thought about the seminary is that seminarians lives life holy, full of prayer. But when I entered already and live life as a seminarian, it seems I was wrong with my idea of the seminary and of the seminarians. People would thought about us as a good and holy seminarians but the truth is that we are just seemingly good and holy seminarians. Even with the priest in the seminary or in the parish, which some of them I do respect at first and some until now I still respect.
Things can deceive us. Our senses can deceive us. What I have seen is just a seeming of what is really the real. As I found out what is being the seminary and being a seminarian, as I found out the priests who are good at first, this things are still the seeming of my life. What is the true real is a mystery. Essentially the seeming theory of Parmenides with his claim “What is, Is” helps us to discover and explore all the possibilities of the world and life. We should not only stick to what was already given because it can always appear to us seemingly.
Recalling the experiences we had as a human being, we may say that all is just a seeming and there is something beyond which cannot be changed. Heraclitus claim, that all is flux, is just seemingly flux. Because of our lack of understanding about the realities of the world and life, all becomes seeming. But when we fully grasped all about world and life, it will be the time that we are sure about something, a something which is not anymore a seeming yet remain unchangeable.
There is something beyond our being human that is stable and impossible for changing. This something beyond is what we call the mystery of our life. The mystery in which we will always call a mystery because it is clear for us that it is a mystery.
The world becomes balance and stabilizes because of the claim of Heraclitus “what is, is”. If we go deeper on it only our faith can explain everything about the mystery. The mystery that is not a mystery if we have faith and that is Jesus Christ.
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