week 5 blog 2

Kierkegaard is an interesting philosopher.  The discussions today were good. I liked the group truth bit.  Really made me think about what truth really means.  Is truth just something we accept because someone said so?  It made me think about how I know what I know.  Most of the things we know, we know because other people said it was so. So I believed them.  I let them tell me how things work.  But I know I think back and realize that I should question my beliefs more.  That I should ask myself if I really believe in what I believe.  I used to be a good little Christian kid, who believed in god, Santa and the Easter bunny.  But I learned that Santa and the Easter bunny don’t actually exist, and I did it on my own.  And a while after I stopped believing in them, I realized something.  I've come to realize that most religions are simply ways of explaining the seemingly explainable.  As I went through school I learned about things like evolution.  After learning and accepting it I stopped and thought.  If this is true then the bible is wrong.  People didn't just appear, our species evolved from some ancient primate.  This was very conflicting for me.  If the bible is wrong about that, what else in it was wrong?  And then after a while, the conflict in my head ceased.  What I knew as the truth, wasn't true to me anymore.  I realized that there are a lot of things people just accept without a valid reason.  There’s no proof god exists.  But does that mean he doesn't?  Nothing can be confirmed without proof, and in the thousands of years people have been on this planet there hasn't been any real proof.  So, until I see proof, my individual truth will differ from the group truth I was brought up believing.