An Apology

In recent months, I have posted a couple of videos of Schopenhauer, a philosopher from the 1800's. The subject of the videos was how readily people follow the crowd, while very few think for themselves and evaluate everything.

It is fair to say that most people follow others rather than thinking through subject matter, and worse, they do not compare what they hear with the Bible.

When I posted these videos, I think it was two, I did not know the basic philosophy of Schopenhauer, I only knew he was right about what he observed in people following others rather than being interested in the truth.

After looking into the life of Schopenhauer, I realized he hated God; his observations about mankind were right, but he did not know why mankind had these monstrous flaws. I deleted the videos, but forgot whether or not there were any more. I would hope that if you see them on my page, you would tell me in the comments so I can delete them.

I apologize for posting the videos, not because I thought the message was wrong but because it was spoken by a man who hated God. He never said he hated God, but was an open atheist.

It was not wise of me to post a video without knowing the basic philosophy of the man who asserted his findings. I am reminded of the seer that Paul rebuked. This seer was following the apostles around, telling people these men were from God. She wasn't saying anything wrong about the men, but because she was a seer, Paul didn't want even a small amount of truth coming from her mouth. He didn't want her influence to cause people to trust in her at all.

I want it to be known that I do not endorse Schopenhauer and his writings, and that I regret posting anything coming from his writings.

One lesson to be learned from this is that evil men can say right things, deceiving people into believing they have a handle on everything else.

Acts 16:17-19 "…17This girl followed Paul and the rest of us, shouting, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation!” 18 She continued this for many days. Eventually, Paul grew so aggravated that he turned and said to the spirit, “In the name of Jesus Christ, I command you to come out of her!” And the spirit left her at that very moment. 19When the girl’s owners saw that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them before the authorities in the marketplace."

Please forgive me for not being more diligent about vetting the works of someone before posting.