I have two philosophy classes with the same professor. (I
don’t know if this is a good thing… quite yet.) However, today I felt that it
might be good. During ethics, we talked about the philosophy school of
Stoicism; which was sort of like accepting things as they come because of
determinism (I instantly thought about Calvinism) and only caring for things
that are both natural and necessary. Later, in American Philosophy, we were
reading Walden by Henry D. Thoreau in
which Thoreau is writing about a two year and two month project where he left
civilization and only cared for the extreme necessities of life. During class
discussion, we were talking about materialism and what we thought about it and
it seemed to me that some people didn’t want to acknowledge that the term was
bad (makes this even sadder). I personally think that materialistic people are
sad. I feel bad for people who are consumed by materialistic things. I’ve heard
some people say that they are living a “minimalist” lifestyle but only because
they don’t have the resources to pamper themselves and indulge in things that
will temporarily make them happy. So, they aren’t doing it by choice, they’re
basically enslaved and bitter.
Getting my MacBook Pro stolen last summer taught me a lot.
My goals in life are to teach and tell my students about
Jesus
or
live in an RV, travel the world and tell the world about
Jesus.
