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January 1, 2008 Student Essay: by Mehdi Hajabdi Oskolu
Thinking deeply about the cosmos and every particle and quantity of energy leads to a very happy and definitive realization that there must be a consummate Being to which all existence and all nonexistence owe their being. Whether this happy realization can be only felt and experienced by some, or all human beings, or even all sentient beings, only God knows. But is it any significant whether one feels God's existence? Why should one even care about God and Godliness? Who told the truth? Was it Hegel or Nietzsche? What is more, what is sentience? The answers to these questions need thought and patience. It is only through cogitation that one can feel and understand truth. 1. A Philosophical Conundrum? No! Human beings are intelligent beings but not so intelligent as to understand God; thus, God can only be felt. Such words as omniscient, omni-benevolent and omnipotent might be appropriate enough to impart a vague image of God to human psyche but we are still far from comprehending God; and so much so that the idea of comprehending God to perfection seems preposterous. For instance, there are still those of us who think about God and ask such questions as: "Can God create a stone which He cannot lift himself?" This question is simply a platitude in modern philosophy and serves to introduce or clarify other philosophical notions but this very question and the answers to which one can find in modern philosophy demonstrate very clearly how ignorant we are concerning God. The true answer to that question is: God is not only omnipotent but omniscient and omni-benevolent; in essence, God is defined by the three words and not one of them; therefore, one cannot answer such simple questions by considering only one epithet as "omnipotent" and think about it independently of "omniscient" and "omni-benevolent.". 2. Happiness Through Godliness: Sentience Matters An important point is raised by the word "omni-benevolent". One must be aware that the word "omni-benevolent" means not only "all-kind", "all-prudent" "all-forgiving" but also "omni-sentient". Omni-sentience is what clarifies our notion of God and Godliness and demonstrates the reasons why humanity should give "sentience" more weight; what is more, again, the word "omni-sentience" should be considered along with other epithets that try to define God and Godliness and not independently. Why are we? Why should we be? Why should we exist? We are and live to strive for perfection. But what is perfection? What are the pars for us humans? The pars are defined by the same epithets that define God! Humans should strive for all those epithets that try to capture Godliness. 3. An Algorithm For Happiness Happiness is what every human being spontaneously strives for. Everlasting felicity can only be achieved by striving for "Godliness". No matter how wealthy or powerful one is, they are nothing without a passion for a consummate Being that is omniscient, omnipotent, omni-benevolent, omni-sentient, omni-prudent, etc. One might name such an ineffable consummate being "God" or any other epithet that suits one's psyche. We are living in an ever developing and modernized world but we still need to believe in what we must believe in as this "passion" for "an ineffable consummate being" is innate. Human psyche justifies and demonstrates a passion for perfection, felicity, and eternity. It seems that it was not very prudent of Nietzsche to underestimate the need for belief in a supreme Being. Hegel's ideology proves not only the innate penchant for belief in God but also the fact that such an innate and eternal, and at times unconscious, desire for such a belief is indispensable. Thus, one must not let anything impinge on one's innate tendency and progress towards eternal bliss. We should be what we are. We are sapient and sentient. Striving for omni-sapience and omni-sentience is purely human therefore, it is absolutely rewarding to edify one's psyche and thus be as "sentipient" as one can; ergo, "sentience + sapience = sentipience" is a must for any bliss-seeker!
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Mehdi
Hajabdi Oskolu was born in 1986 in a village near
the border with Azerbaijan. As soon as he was born,
he and his family moved to a small town called
Kaleybar in Northwestern Iran. They lived there for
about 12 years before moving to Tehran. He also
studied experimental sciences in high school but
later decided to study English Literature at the
University of Tehran. His personal fields of
interest include metaphysics, astronomy, biology,
and palaeontology and says his personal beliefs and
philosophical views resemble those held by Hegel
and Bacon. Mehdi can be reached at
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