Of course, you don’t care what I believe, nor should you. But then, I am not writing for you. I’m writing in order to further explore my own philosophy with a comb containing even more fine teeth than those which I have previously bent, twisted, and snapped in many preceding attempts to clarify my point of view on existence. It is for a deeper understanding of my own experience that I write. But, who knows? Perhaps, we’ll both learn something.
There are ten concepts which seem to represent a logical succession of value development in the context of human existence:
1. God
2. Religion
3. Ethics
4. Politics
5. War
6. Race
7. Freedom
8. Friendship
9. Sexuality
10. Love
The logic of this continuum is based upon the following: If there were no belief in the concept of God, there would surely be no religion. There is religion. Therefore, it is religion which, by its precepts, dictates our collective ethical dilemma. Ethics, in their turn, proceed to present the problem of politics, and it is in the resistance to disparate ethics that politics must resort to conflict and war. The result of war will determine the remaining balance of race groups, which must then prescribe a rational means for the development of cultural identities.
The more personal elements of individual human existence are those which are made possible to experience by the execution of the higher elements on the scale. The last four items on the list represent one’s personal ability to interact with others, to develop rewarding interpersonal relationships, and to fulfill one’s destiny; that which is left for the individual to define, and to enjoy at his leisure, upon his own initiative.
