(10-23-2009, 01:35 AM)peregrine Wrote: Just curious, Turtle: How do you understand your reality now?
I understand that what I consider to be the most important beliefs I have, come from what I "resonate" with or "like to believe", seeing as how the supporting evidence and personal experiences which shape my beliefs will change depending upon a person's viewpoint. Everyone has their own perspective on things..and a lot of the things we as a society accept as "facts" or "truths" are subject to interpretation, as well as subject to changing completely, given time and/or new discoveries.
So what I understand is that this idea of absolute truths (something which would be absolute amongst every known/unknown level of existence) are pretty much useless to chase after in this reality, seeing as how we have our own unique perceptions and desires of what existence is, or should be, as well as a VERY limited looking glass to work with being our physical human bodies. The most progressive and groundbreaking ideas of how existence works, are limited to the realm of THEORY, and most likely always will be as long as we perceive our world through this shell.
This is how I've chosen to understand my reality.
How I believe reality works, is quite elegantly spoken by Ra in the quote you provided in your first post on this thread. It was so beautifully written, that I had to save that quote elsewhere on my harddrive
Godspeed...in all of our endeavors!