Ben Kirchner
What did I really learn in Faith, Reason and Revelation? Well I learned a lot of things. Like "Plato's allergory of the cave" which warns against ignorance and life without thought, and then there was "The Blind man and the Elephant" which taught that many see only a part of the whole and argue over it. Yet there was also the lesson of an unexamined life, and the snail problem that both taught that in order to live and prosper you have to pay attention and not take anything for granted. Again what did I really learn in this course? Because I am sure I already learned these lessons as a child when my parents taught me right from wrong and the importance of responsibility. So what have I really learned? Is it that God must exist becuase of the way man always feels compelled to have something higer than him, the way the world is so complex yet works together in simple ways? Becuase yet again I am sure I have known God existed becuase of my own experiences. So what did I really learn? Well thats simple, I learned about myself.
Why did I put in writing all the lessons taught but then say that I did not really learn about them instead I learned about myself? Because I believe that what the book and cousre taught in the bold print was only a generalization or summary of the idea. I believe that to in order to really learn the lessons then you have to apply the ideas to your life because only then can you relate to and understand the ideas the lessons teach. Because of the application of the different lessons to my life I have come to really learn who I am and why I make the decisions I do.
The lessons taught my the unexamined life and "What the bleep do we know" inspired me to examine my own life past that which was required for the things like the "right speech experiment". Upon examination of my life looked into many areas of my personal life ranging from my ADHD to the freinds I hang out with. Now this might sound like I really learned the unexamined life lesson but thats not true becuase you cant examine your life without all the lessons the book taught. I really learned that a lot of who I am is influenced by my ADHD. This is really big because through my ADHD I can see how all the lessons taught in the FR&R are actually present and real. Because I learned the lessons from the FR&R I was really able to learn that things like my indifference toward music, bad direct citing but good generalization, and inability to switch gears were because of my different thinking style associated with my ADHD.
The things I truly learned from the FR&R course were was not the bold print and outlines of variouis ideas but instead the lesson I truly learned from the FR&R course was the ability to examine my own life.
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