Religion • Reason • Enlightenment

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Philosophic pursuit on this site is live and renewing, or as we would say in computer browser language, "refreshing,” updating on our way to full understanding. We go from the basis of what is (now) known as fact, from our current understanding of things, and amalgamate it with our fresh, ongoing deep thought and inquiry for the attainment of new realization, new cognizance, and enlightenment.

Even the Catholic Church has come to the realization that traditional dogma is no longer the way to maintain course. Galileo and the Inquisition notwithstanding, the Pope tapped into ‘fresh knowledge’ once again to conclude that "fresh knowledge leads to the recognition of the theory of evolution as more than just a hypothesis." This offers renewed hope for bringing the religious and reasoned approaches of inquiry into fact and truth closer together.

Holding to the premise that Religion and Philosophy will ultimately interact in bringing forth consequential answers to the mystery of our being, we combined the search for wisdom, Philosophy, with the religious Logos to coin our name, and our internet identity: Philogos.org -- The subtitle ‘Tabula Rasa’ addresses our need to back off the myriad time-dishonored belief systems, faiths, voices and opinions that have hindered our access to the shrouded deep truth so long and brought us to the brink of violent self-destruction. We simply must reduce the bewildering multitude of beliefs and faiths to a basic, overriding, ubiquitous level of truth that everyone can sign on to in good faith.

The attainment of enlightened ‘realization’ of fact and truth about the phenomenon of material, physical and temporal manifestation is our stated purpose, aim and objective.

In this effort, however, we cannot subscribe to any dogmas, preconceived notions, or traditional belief systems for tradition’s sake. We need to seek and find fact and truth no matter where it may take us, and as we find it, we must recognize and defend it for what it is, and must be: the stand-alone fact and truth. Not your truth, not mine, but what has to be the total, overarching fact and truth. We must be sure to make a distinction between ‘generic’ truth and fact and truth so that a generic truth concept in search of the real thing is not let to wander back into the wide wasteland of opinion, pretense, hypocrisy and all manner of wrong interpretations, instead of reaching for the intended realm of real fact and truth. Every being has its own, individual inner mind structure or level of awareness from which it looks out and sees, perceives things. For the true seeker, the crux lies in his rising above his own self and looking at the total ‘bigger picture’.

We hold ultimate truth as being singular and absolute, and mere fragmental shades of it as in pursuit of extraneous causes must not be imposed upon the human psyche superstitiously, whether by religious zealotry, hypocrisy, pretense, deception or any other means of overpowering, including physical violence and -- yes, ignorance. When it’s all said and done, the bottom line will be in the metaphysical realm, in a big way.

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For thousands of years, we humans have pondered our being, our origin, our fate, our purpose.

Do you think the Grand Canyon, or Mt. Everest, or the vast oceans have ever pondered such questions about their being (there)?

Obviously not, and therein lies one important aspect of our answers to the great puzzle.

Recorded human awareness of something other than the being in the flesh -- of the metaphysical, spiritual if you will -- started about four millennia ago with Abraham and our oldest of religions. Following ‘soon’ after, Eastern religions made their metaphysical entry. The Western world began its calendar count with the Christian event teaching the spiritual life.

Earliest recorded philosophy generally lagged behind these religious forerunners. Somehow not quite satisfied with just the religious (belief) systems, true philosophy sees the human situation, and existence as a whole, as a deeper challenge and seeks to find answers based on reasoning things out. However, the convenience of the status quo and the advent and promise of untold technological and lifestyle advances have more recently all but blinded the human drive to delve deeper into man's basic being, into his essential nature, his meaning, his significance - threatening to make self-discovery and philosophy an 'endangered' pursuit, even as the serious influence of some religions is declining as well. Heading back to the caves?

‘Doing (modern) Philosophy’ can mean many things -- in most instances, though, it means not much more than the busying with what earlier thinkers had said, often long ago. It seems the longer ago, the more mythical the nature of those early thoughts. As stated before, we want to deal hand in hand with update knowledge, awareness and understanding for the attainment of new realization, rather than dealing with indeterminate conjecture from long ago that is still deeply rooted in archaic preconceptions and traditions. It is our aim to base our philosophical inquiry upon rationally recognized, known fact and truth and upon a clean slate – a Tabula Rasa without prior notions, superstitions, presuppositions, or hypocrisy.

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