My Life Requires Truth

Description falls short of actualizing how much truth is needed to define and regulate life. Math has been absent from my life for about 2 years, and I miss it dearly. It was a pain, trig/precalc, but at the same time refreshing. Trig/precalc was an applicable truth not simply a playing with words, symbols or sounds like in Art. Answers. Only one solution was possible, and much of our generation has neglected the value of an absolute truth.

The distance from myself to the wall. :) It's a fact, as long as I stay here and the wall stays there, it's concrete, there is no variation except in the units of measurement.

Coming to art/music school has left me hungry for and devoid of reality. When I call my leather wallet what it is, and then the man next to me says it's a processed dead cow I can deal with that. There's truth in what he said, perhaps a strange way to view a wallet, but regardless there's at least a twinge of truth in what he said. However, when he calls my wallet a collage of raisins, or he says my wallet is the same exact things as his vat of honey, or better yet that the wallet doesn't exist I writhe to try to explain why nonsense spews from his face.

It's no longer calling a tomato a (tom-ott-oe). It's calling a tomato an emery board, and backing the conclusion with, "they both came from the same store" or "Both of them are edible". Different purposes and uses dominate the items regardless of where they were bought. Emery boards are edible, but they do nothing for your health. Common sense conclusions based upon logic seem to take a backseat to imagination, what ifs and morals that make as much sense as praising a horse for excreting.

20-21st century "virtuous" man is no long a man of strong understanding of himself, good and bad, right and wrong, determination, selflessness, or consistency. Instead we've thrown out the carved statues that were too rigid, strong, offensive and defined for sheets that sway in the wind. "Piety" consists of being a push over. Harmony of this new morality is formed when incompatible ideas are held within one mind and both are ignored. Clearly there is an understanding of belief, but not enough belief for it to influence any part of life. Therefore, everyone's right, because people haven't found enough evidence to prove any possibility invalid.

Ignorance has left crowds of people wondering with no answers. Analytical thinking is put aside when people come out the math class. Logic needs to burn away erroneous works, words and attitudes to magnify the truth that is in our world. However, Logic isn't taught in schools, and sadly enough Students wouldn't want to take the class anyway. Even though simple logic could fix a large portion of their problems ahead of time.

Students who enter college are entering a junction. Adolescence is wearing off of the upcoming generation, new ideas are bombarding them and the people who influenced them up till now are mostly gone. Definition of the person in this situation is imperative. They need to find who they are. They are a liquid material ready to be caste into something, but molds aren't natural. Molds aren't individual. Molds are man-made copies. Yet many of us look at something and say, "I want to be like that, but with a blend of this," or "differently the same," Something along the lines of an individual copy. "A statue like that, but with a hat on."

Most people aren't looking for a mold (though they may have that image). In most minds there is a want to discover who they are. What they were made to do. purpose. Learning, changing, improving, but still a similarity in the character of who they are. It dawns on us that we aren't a material, because we're growing, living, so focus diverts to how to live. Unfortunately life is viewed as a long corridor and when you walk through the door at the end...it's done. You're life is complete.

Considerably a bleak outlook that no one should ever actualize. (and if it is a reality I pity you)

Interestingly enough, when artists viewed their lives as a straight path they passed without much notice. Not until artists began to use more than the right side of their brains that they became noted. The two most famous artists: Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, along with many other artists of the time weren't exclusively artists. Leonardo did a million things, Engineer, scientist, painter, blah blah blah. The man was brilliant, and Michelangelo was similar, Sculptor, painter, Architect...Both these men brushed on mathematics quite a bit.

In the past artists were respected for honing a skill and craft, however after/during the renaissance artists belonged to a much higher caste.

Also the other end of the spectrum is easily as at fault. What mathematicians are familiar to most people?
Are they the ones that innovate with creative ideas or the extremely analytical ones that do exactly what was done before with a little bit of difference?

A balance in life must be struck. Aristotle argued that Ethos, Pathos and Logos must be present in an argument (a belief) for it to hold water. Ethos-credibility, Pathos-Emotionality and Logos-Logic. A mind detached from its heart is ruthless, and predictable. A heart detached from its brain is overly sentimental. Neither of these two are credible in their state without one another.

Yet most people detach that logical skill that claims an answer from their lives when they make individual choices, and it leaves them luke-warm to everything, harnessing nothing. Similarly people detach their emotions and they claim a logical answer, but miscalculate, by not including their emotions. (like plugging in an equation, but leaving out a variable or two.)

What I see before me is a future of highly emotional people without logic, and a group of highly analytical people without emotion, which makes them equally illogical.

These need to blend into an intellectual that isn't so calloused and pompous that he loses track of where he is, and an average working man that is educated enough to evaluate and defend his beliefs intellectually.

God will show himself in a setting where these two attributes synthesize with one another. God is logical, yet he Loves us ever so dearly.