by lastgoldstar on Tue Jul 22, 2008 1:26 am
I don't think I can easily define mine. I can say that I am not religious, nor am I particularly spiritual. It's not that I don't care, but I have a lot of other things on my plate right now. Well, I guess you could say I really don't care right now. The way I see it is that I have a lot of time ahead of me to decide where my beliefs rest, and right now I am focusing on school and a potential career, which in itself is a philosophical debate (at least to me- "well, I am interested in 'A' but will doing 'A' make the world a better place?" I don't want to do something I'm good at, I want to do something I'm interested in, something that's needed, something practical yet beautiful...).
Anyhow, I was raised Baptist. I never did see the point of religion, why I should go to church, why I should and should not do certain things. I remember being eight or so years old and telling myself, "you don't like this now, but when you're older, you'll understand." I never did. We converted to Lutheranism when I was eleven, and for all intents and purposes, that is what I am today. Mainly because my family cannot know I believe otherwise. Honestly, though, the Lutheran church made a helluva lot more sense to me and I can say that I hold a certain amount of respect for it, which is why I haven't destroyed any ties. But I certainly don't practice.
I will say that I am intrigued by the philosophies of Descartes (I am especially fond of je pense, donc je suis), Kirkegaard, Sartre, Berkeley, and Nietzsche.