Reply #217: Not a question of denying macro aspects [View All]

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Its a question of various individuals finding validity in different paths of macro explanations. Each path forms its own detailed explanations. Each vision has layers and depths far beyond a simple that which can be glimpsed in a mere glance. The trouble is that not all draw valid conclusions within their constructs.

Yes to those that embrace the view that there is a God there are going to be profound and meaningful insites derived from this notion. They are obviously going to be far removed from the path of those that take a different view of the world. But it does not mean that their path is less enlightened. It also does not mean that the God path is anymore accurate in explaining reality.

A valid and functioning world view can be struck from many paths. History has shown us this. Varying levels of harmony and stress have acompanied all such paths. Some have survived many have been left to atrophy with none following their teachings any longer. The thing that most have in common is that all have been held as deeply meaningful by those that embraced them.

What we can learn from this is that while there is no indication that any of these paths were and absolute truth or not they had meaning to their adherants. To presume that they were fools or delusionary oddities is presumptive on our part. Instead we should accept that on the whole this is a natural process of internalizing our environment. We create constructs to explain the world around us. These constructs are not reality but rather models of how we percieve reality. And within these constructs we conduct internal experiments and conjectures attempting to sort out the nature of reality.

But the trouble is that many forget that it is the model they are sorting. It is the internalized imagining of how things are. And if there is no continual process of updating that perception then it may well be flawed from a reality based perspective.

So as one further develops this internalized view of the world around them they will experience a sense of empowerment from their believed understanding of the world. It may be very functional in the real world and still be diconnected from it. The fact is it is still just an internalized vision of reality.