Interview on Youtube about my early travels

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   2025/12/20
   wayan

   sorry for such a late reply,

   i think, coming across your page, you are quite the interesting soul with many experiences, im only 17 and could only hope to have even half of the things youve lived through in life, because looking through, its quite fascinating one youve lived. i think philosophy is one step to take anyone’s thought further, and from what ive read, your reflections is indeed philosophy

   philos – love
   sophia – wisdom

   philosophy – love of wisdom

   insha Allaah, sincerity leads to truth, and truth leads to placidity in this life and whatever comes after it

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  2025/12/20
  tramp11

  Thank you, wayan. I’m amazed you’re only 17. When I try to think back to when I was that age, I think I was very shy and naive. and still dependent on my parents to a great extent — though I may have helped them a little bit to raise my five younger siblings. I hadn’t traveled much at all outside the borders of this tiny country, although I read a lot of stories about faraway places and was always fascinated and curious.
  Anyway, philosophy in the sense you mention has always been of great interest to me even though I never actually studied it as you are doing. Do you think you might pursue it and perhaps become a teacher of philosophy?
  Best wishes for Christmas and 2026.
  -erwin

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   2025/12/06
   wayan

   hey, erwin, i think you should read hegel.

   your conception of ‘god’ or the absolute is like, pretty much the same; read his ‘Phenomenology of Spirit’, and i think you’d agree a lot.

   god for you (and for hegel) goes through an evolution of the self or an evolution of our perception of it through an experiential and lived perception of the world. god is the generated relationship that we create with the world, it is a sense in which our spirituality evolves in higher and higher forms away from religions and into the ideal human reality and perfect reason. as we go through different formations of learning about spirit, we perform a dialectic with ourselves and we externalize our views to the outside world (such as religion, cosmology and hierarchies) according to our level of spirit, then demolishing them after we come to a realization that our externalization of the world (i.e. god as a father figure being) is either incorrect or particular/contingent/arbitrary and evolve our view of reality, orientation, our science, society, etc., and god here is part of that externalization (hence why as per your blog, our ‘sphere’ or ‘island’ of humanity sees god the way it is, imperfect and seeking to better itself)

   not that i agree fully, but there is certainly something fascinating about this view.

   salamu alaykum,

   – wayan

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  2025/12/06
  tramp11

  Thank you. I must admit I haven’t read Hegel or any of the well-known philosophers. My formal education never went beyond middle school. I have learned a lot in other ways, but I think studying philosophical works would be quite tough for me and I wouldn’t remember much afterwards. Nonetheless your observation is very interesting to me. Wa alaykum assalaam.

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