he's an old philosopher who pretty much revolutionised the way people looked at both science and philosophy for several reasons including, he pretty much disagreed with everythig that had been said before (and made good arguments why) and wasn't bothered about being branded blasphemous for his theories as up until him everyone who had philosophies that went against or disagreed the majorities thinking on religion, the test would usually only be realesed on their death as to avoid this.
kind of reminded me of him cos u looked at it from outside the circle ie u come from the perspective outside usual thought and made a great point.
i' a a religious guy u know, u kind of have to be one way or the other once u get into a bit of philosophy but i don't let it rule my life and i think i'm a good person becausei get my morals from myself and my experiences not some old book.
in theory anyone of us could write a book full of stories with morals and in 2000 years it could be the Bible. not a blashpemous statement just fact cos no one knows 100% where it came from so for all we know some writer was sitting thinking what shall i write about now and he thought HEY!!! i'll do this.
u never can and never will trully know.
i miss my philosophy classes

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