{"id":1276,"date":"2017-03-23T23:35:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T03:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2017-03-23T23:35:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T03:35:31","slug":"descartes-said-its-necessary-to-doubt-all-things-at-least-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/?p=1276","title":{"rendered":"Descartes Said It’s Necessary to Doubt All Things at Least Once"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rene Descartes, Philosopher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Don’t feel bad if you get agnostic from time to time! Doubting is a necessary thing according to the great philosopher and mathematician, Rene Descartes.<\/p>\n

In the course of our homeschooling today (annoying Cartesian math for 8th graders!) we looked up Rene Descartes for the fun of it. Up came a bunch of his famous quotes — for once not the “I think, therefore I am” quote.<\/p>\n

Agnostics, skeptics and spiritual seekers will appreciate his words.<\/p>\n

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.<\/i><\/p>\n

I tried to think of when this doubting of all things might have happened to me. Then I remembered as a young college student my jaw dropping over the Mithras-to-Jesus similarities. Birthdate, Roman-style worship, 12 disciples, etc. \u00c2\u00a0I was already upset by the absence of a God-the-Mother and God-the Daughter, and suspicious of all the (wonderful!) pagan elements in Judeo-Christianity. The Mithras stuff and Acharya S’s exaggerated correspondences pushed me\u00c2\u00a0into full doubt-mode for a short while. I had to rise up from either \/ or belief and mature into both \/ and. \u00c2\u00a0As in, yeah, Mithras, Jesus, Dionysius, Adonis, were probably the same — and Horus the Light of the World. Then there is Helios, El, Allah with the “EL” name of God hiding in there. Adonis is similar to Adonai, also. Paganism, Monotheism, Gnosticism, ALL of it. It is the same. They are BOTH true, this AND that and that and this, too. There is no black and white, no either \/ or in spiritual truth.<\/p>\n

Then again, I will probably never grasp the Truth with a capital T. \u00c2\u00a0I really like the title Gnostics gave to Mary Magdalene. She was the Woman who knew the ALL. Gnostic knowing is spelled with a g. She gnew it in her marrow, it was the ultimate gnowing.<\/p>\n

Just rambling here…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don’t feel bad if you get agnostic from time to time! Doubting is a necessary thing according to the great philosopher and mathematician, Rene Descartes. In the course of our homeschooling today (annoying Cartesian math for 8th graders!) we looked up Rene Descartes for the fun of it. Up came a bunch of his famous … Continue reading Descartes Said It’s Necessary to Doubt All Things at Least Once<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,7,128],"tags":[326,325],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gnosticism","category-mary-magdalene","category-religion","tag-agnostic","tag-descartes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1278,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions\/1278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}