AlainK
Imperial Masterpiece
In France, "Philosophy" is part of the curriculum in the last year of secondary school, before you can get "a high school diploma", the "baccalauréat".
It aims at making young people/young adults being able to see all the aspects of a problem, a topical issue, a metaphysical questio, taking all the intellctual resources to balance the different arguments.
Not only black or white, but different shades of grey. (And no, if it can be about sex, no, that's just a tiny part of the reflexion, you sex-maniacs!) But in the end, after pounding the pros and cons, offering a point of view.
Of course when in your own language you only have 350 words, it's hard to dissert about even the price of meat... (Look here, Brother, you your jiving with your cosmic debris?...)
I am an atheist, a former teenager looking for meta(physical) answers, and used to be part of a Young Catholic Workers association. That was the time when the official Catholic church supported dictators in South America, in Chile, and other places, totalitarian states supported by the CIA (Condor).
When I was 15, was attracted to the protestant faith - not the "Evangelists", thank G... ! - the traditional French protestant tradition, those who gave shelter to the persecuted without asking them, manipulating them into their beliefs.
Bhuddism... Wich is not a religion "per se", but a quest for the truth.
Then : what do I need gurus to make the people around me live a better life ? And so, if I don't know if "a god" "exists" or not, what's the problem ?
How many dismeanour points will I get if I do right while not calling "his/her" name ? Sorry, erratum : if I don't call His name ? For religions, all of them are sexist.
I respect believers (to a certain point), I hate religions (all of them !)
PS : "I respect believers (to a certain point), I hate religions (all of them !)"
The US look to me like a schyzophrenic country : the land of the free (but build a wall), freedom of thought (but religion rules : abortion), etc.
I'm glad I live in country, a continent (except Russia and the places they're invading) where I can walk in the street without asking myself :
Who's got a gun ?
That black man ? I can see a bulge around his pubis.
That girl that has a headscarf ? She's smiling, ready to go to heavens and kill miscreants ?
That boy with cropped hair, tattoes all over his arms, he really looks like a neo-nazi.
Shall I buy a gun ?
I can't, I live in a civilized country, where only bandits and the police can carry a gun.
Will I take a kitchen knife hidden in my jacket for if ever I can be a super-hero I can help a little girl bullied by a latino/black/ukrainian/italian/"chtimi" immigrant (the lovely people close to the Belgian border, but they can be very dangerous too) ?
No, decent people don't carry weapons. I mean, oustide the US and many democratic places like Europe, and I find it very sad for those who are humanitarians and have to live where because of lobbying by lying, immoral politician, the law is made by a right-wing, bigot, institution.
All democratic countries have a kind of "Supreme Court", but the US now, like Poland or China have the "best ones".
No the worst one : religiously biased. They don't care about the "real paople". They're just politically, religiously paralyzed on their hocus-pocus creeds. It's not "le conseil des sages" (the counsel of wise men/people), it's just the result of what a con-man, a liar, a prospective coup-maker put in place before he was washed out.
Just balances, just weights : someone cheated the balances, and I really feel sorry for all the Americans who will have to suffer from this legal coup...
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