The day that I publish this blog it is
Christmas. It is a special day for many people in the world, in the Western
world in the first place, but absolutely not only there. Therefore, I wanted to
make a special blog for this special occasion. Usually it is so that I first
write a blog and then make an illustration (usually a photo) that fits the
blog. This time I decided to do it the other way round: The blog is the photo
and the text is the illustration. Can’t you see the picture well, then click on it and it will become larger.
The photo contains Christian elements, but
it isn’t only meant for Christians. The sense of it is for all of us. Christmas
is traditionally not only the day that Christians remember the birth of Christ,
but it is also a day of contemplation: We think about who we are, where we come
from and what our future will be. We don’t need to do it especially on Christmas.
We can do it each day, according to our religion, persuasion or way of life.
But do we do? Therefore this photo is not a call for a revival of a certain
religious view; it expresses a philosophical idea, like all my blogs. As
Wittgenstein said at the end of his Tractatus
(6.52): “We feel that even if all possible scientific questions have been
answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.”
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