Though steeped in ignorance and imperfection, though possessing a flawed perception and understanding, I hope I might, I hope I may, see the world as it is today.
As I journey in my quest for answers, may I ever wary be of those that seek to give pause to curiosity.
May I revel in mystery, but not as an end in itself, rather as a challenge to be overcome or an opportunity to explore.
May I be brave enough to challenge my beliefs, no matter how resolutely I may hold on to them, for if something can be destroyed by the truth, it should. May I be steadfast in finding the truth rather than proving anything to be true.
May I not be fooled by what is merely elegant, but seek what controls my anticipation and predicts results, which may itself be elegant, though this is in no way a prerequisite.
And yet, may I appreciate the elegance of this universe and its ways. May I be and live in awe of the sheer grandeur and magnificence of existence, always.
May I seek perfection, so that every step forward encourages one more, so that I never pause and look at what is accomplished as enough, so that I journey on to a boundless future.
May I not limit my thirst for knowledge for any reason. May I seek and seek and seek, for this universe is so grand and there is so much more to see.
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I know I'll keep vacillating and trying perfect my first post if I let myself... So here's something I've been working on for a while - a sort of statement of how I would like to approach life and the universe.
ReplyDelete(This is my first blog and I am just beginning to make the transition from reading online to actually interacting. I'm not going to establish a very well-defined theme for this one right now (though that doesn't preclude letting a theme evolve over time).)
Hello there.
ReplyDeleteSo you seek for truth, and are willing to destroy everything in the process, just to find truth...
No, i dont have truth either, but i think we could have much more than just "fun" if we shared our experiences so far.
I don0t believe in chance, and the fact that you opened this blog at mid-november means one or two things to me.
My msn is on my profile. If you want, i'd be more than pleased to exchange ideas.
John
Hi there,
ReplyDelete"So you seek for truth, and are willing to destroy everything in the process, just to find truth..."
Would like to reference the Straw Man's Fallacy here for you...
http://www.fallacyfiles.org/strawman.html
There's a glaringly obvious difference between being willing to discard beliefs that are not true and destroying *everything* *just* to find truth. This post was much less about destruction of anything than it was about creation and discovery.
Would say the search for truth is not about having fun, but more to do with a deeper human need to accept that we understand the world imperfectly and a desire to understand it better.
Yeah, well, that's what "much more than just fun" means :P...
ReplyDeleteI agree, there's a GLARINGLY OBVIOUS difference between "creating/discovering truth" and "destroyin lies". The OBVIOUS reason is that the first cannot be achieved, while the second at least can be attempted. To create and discover you need two things:
1) If you're going to create, you need to know at least a PIECE of truth. You need to know SOMETHING that already is truth, and start building upon that. If you're "creating" upon lies, that's not finding truth, that's building more solid illusions. I'm curious though... Do you happen to have/know/feel something that is TRUE without a doubt, universal and not depending on time? That would be JUST enough to start building upon. Otherwise, you have naught.
2) To DISCOVER truth you need PERFECT SENSES, i.e., senses that cannot be tampered by illusions, that cannot be fooled. When you see a blue sky, it wont depend on your being daltonic or not. So far, i only have 5 senses, all of them EXTREMELY limited. If you have something different, then please share it, so we all can just "discover" it.
I have concluded that we see everything imperfectly a long time ago now, and my desire to understand it better is the only thing that keeps me waking up every day.
My offer stands: add me to your msn, and we'll chat more informally about "finding truth". Rarely i have the pleasure to find anyone as commited to it as me.
(btw, by no means was a trying to create a strawman out of your claim :P. I was just pointing out it felt really determined, nothing else. Why do people find it easier to jump into war instead of trying to communicate?)
ReplyDeleteOooh... I like what you just said. Thanks for the clarification. Seems I misread you. And yes, that's all I sought to express in that post - a determination to do more than just accept whatever I believe as truth.
ReplyDeleteI don't completely agree that you need perfect senses to discover truth. It is just a longer and harder road to travel with imperfect senses that evolved more to help us survive in our specific habitat than to help us find out more about reality as it really is. That's why I consider it important to approach it as I outlined in the first post. We have the faculties to make up for our lack of sensory ability. Although your point about being fooled by illusion or by our own (flawed) model of reality is very valid.
Btw, a lovely place devoted to just that, that you might already know:
http://www.overcomingbias.com/
Had been working on a post about perception and reality before it got stuck in the doldrums of intended (but nigh on impossible) perfection. I will try and get it ready for posting as a reply, since I can't reply in detail atm.
Re: your offer of communicating via msn, I'd love to, except I'm afraid my access to chat is severely limited atm.
Not sure if I seemed argumentative in my reply - was not intended so... so war is out of the question ;) especially seeing as it is a needlessly inefficient and ultimately futile form of communication. ^_^
And now, on to post something I needed to post earlier (as usual!)