Well said ... it seems like the software of gender and the hardware of biological sex are getting mixed up .. (not to use too many mechanistic analogies for humans, but that's how Heather Heying describes it and it makes a lot of sense to me) .. that, OK, someone can be a feminine being in a male body, or inhabit the spaces between masculine and feminine .. and if that's authentic, it's beautiful.
But if their actual biology is that of a human male, that is the truth of their biology in this lifetime. To conflate having a feminine essence (or an affinity with elves, or a deep kinship with wolves), with "So you should actually physically become one" is an assault on truth, reality, sensemaking, and their body.
The tragic wave of young people who regret mutilating themselves and are telling their stories of how they were coerced and pushed along, with it being so easy to get approvals to transition and so hard to be treated with respect when they regretted it .. That and the tide of "vaccine" (and, vaccine), injured , and parents, are a powerful force of undeniable truth ..
Thank you, Winston, for unpacking our current absurdities. I would love to read your further thoughts in a Part 2 of this article, about the work of brave souls as we venture out of the cave, and for those of us already outside.
Thanks Navyo - certainly there are many who maintain a firm grasp on objective truth, or at least realize there is an objective reality and strive to understand it. I’ll attempt to write more about a certain robustness and even selflessness (or limiting self-consciousness) required to face a reality that doesn’t always “resonate” with you.
If we truly strive to better understand our reality, we must first accept that our current 'truth' is not complete. If we believe that our grasp of reality is the true one, do we really have the ability to ask the difficult questions needed to better our understanding?
Agreed - we must accept that our 'truth' isn't complete - as it says in the Bible, we see as through a glass darkly - i.e. we don't have a clear vision due to our natural limitations. And yes, I believe we can ask the difficult questions needed to better our understanding - and the courage to do so, especially in this climate of cancel culture where challenges to the 'narrative' are often met with irrational condemnation.
Excellent questions. I look forward to hearing you discuss them further.
I tried to watch a John Cage production on YT because I had never heard of him. So glad I did not waste the entire 7 minutes of #433, or other. The pianist sat down and never touched the keys.
The freedom of form site was truly disturbing Ellen.
Garden of Eden... Why would god leave the tree there, but to test his subjects?
Oh, it's got knowledge, but don't eat from it, because I said so.
Sounds like the FDA and CDC today with data.
But that's "my truth" hahaha
Another interesting view would be to look at the stories of Satan "instructing" people as their own split... If you consider the bicameral mind theory.
Short summary of bicameral mind:
-We used to act automatically with the help from the gods. (Direct control, no conscious choice)
-Later, gods spoke to us in voices, as a guide. (Not direct control, some 'choice' involved)
-Then, we lost the ability to hear the gods. (No longer influenced by "god")
This progression is from having a divided mind that started to link together, eventually not needing "voices" in order to communicate between hemispheres...
It's pretty close to the garden of Eden story... We were a part of god (a robot), then we were influenced by god, and nowadays not influenced by god but by "logic" as we see science today.
I hope the next step of humanity, we start to realize that even though we don't "hear god", our subconscious still drives a lot of our perception.
Then, perhaps we can be closer to reality and not assume that what we see or hear is always true.
The more I know, the more I realize that I know very little.
The Bible tells us about an all powerful, all knowing and all wise God who created all things and in particular people whom he made in his image. If you accept this then you are likely to wonder what being made in His image means anyway. Part of being made in His image means we are like Him in certain ways BUT we aren't Him. We have some power but aren't all powerful, we know things but don't know everything, we have some wisdom but aren't all wise. As we aren't God we can't know exactly all the reasons why He put the tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden in the first place and may reason "well why not simply leave it out of the garden?" If God knows all then he knew the humans would be curious, want to learn, want to test things so they could know what would happen. So really they met their second test at the tree. The first test was did they believe what God had said and the second was when it was put to them "Did God really say that? Then they had a lie put to them that if they did eat from the tree they would be like God, when they were ALREADY like God.
But back to knowing all things means God knew that they would fail to follow his instructions before He even created them and knew what the results of disobeying Him would be. Satan essentially forced them to make the choice of their own free will to obey or to disobey God. There was nothing essentially evil about the tree or the fruit of the tree. Eating the fruit was an act of disobedience against God and was what gave Adam and Eve the knowledge of evil—and the knowledge of their nakedness.
God did not want Adam and Eve to disobey Him. He wanted them to freely choose to love Him and choose to obey Him because He is all knowing He knew what was best for them. We have the same choice today, to choose to freely love Him and obey Him or not. If He did not make the choice available, if we were not given the choice and we could ONLY do the right thing then that isn't displaying love for Him. He could have made us robotic with zero choice but that's not what He wanted and not what He did. We have the same choice today in our other relationships, to choose to do the right thing by others.
Nice article . . . but mentioning Cage brings to mind the idea of iconoclasm. Iconoclasm is the fear of images and was very destructive towards classical western art. In fact, certain types of Modernism are iconoclastic in that the abstract artists, whether minimal or expressionist, criticized classical western art as, yes, lying. Because an image of a tree or a saint isn't real. It's paint on a wall, board or canvas. Or made of wood or stone. Therefore, fake. Same goes with Islam. Images are lies that offend Mohammed. Lately, they blew up world-heritage Buddhist icons.
This is a great article and really gets to the heart of the matter -- before we can move on together, we have to agree on what reality is. I wrote about this a little while back!
How can we come to any sort of resolution of a problem if (at least) one side refuses to acknowledge the reality of the situation, and if we’re simply yelling past one another and not listening? I’ve often said that as a libertarian, I understand the importance of taking your allies on a position wherever you can find them. If you want to end the war on drugs, let’s work together — your position on other issues is irrelevant as it pertains to the war on drugs. But it today’s political climate, the politicians are too busy demonizing the other side to ask for their support on important matters. Since we don’t actually interact and discuss, we’re basically living in two separate realities.
The Truth Jesus was referring to is not about telling the truth. It is much more, much higher than that. Truth, is a spiritual current that cannot be written or spoken, it is a Power.
Referred to it as Logos, Holy Spirit, the Comforter, The Word (not the written word).
It is the Creative energy of God which is within everyone, but rare is the person who realizes and experiences it.
And is there really an objective world "out there", and what are the devastating cultural consequences of what is at root an emotionally primitive childish even infantile, and terrifying idea too!
Truth of course cannot be falsified. All dogmas are essentially false and are at root about power and control. They are certainly not about Truth Reality and The Beautiful Itself, or Freedom.
Perhaps you could also have mentioned the Pragmatic theory of truth - that our knowledge is always necessarily imperfect and we have to proceed understanding the limitations of our knowledge.
Perhaps you were unfair to Bertrand Russell, expounding something similar to the Natural Law version of truth
Well said ... it seems like the software of gender and the hardware of biological sex are getting mixed up .. (not to use too many mechanistic analogies for humans, but that's how Heather Heying describes it and it makes a lot of sense to me) .. that, OK, someone can be a feminine being in a male body, or inhabit the spaces between masculine and feminine .. and if that's authentic, it's beautiful.
But if their actual biology is that of a human male, that is the truth of their biology in this lifetime. To conflate having a feminine essence (or an affinity with elves, or a deep kinship with wolves), with "So you should actually physically become one" is an assault on truth, reality, sensemaking, and their body.
The tragic wave of young people who regret mutilating themselves and are telling their stories of how they were coerced and pushed along, with it being so easy to get approvals to transition and so hard to be treated with respect when they regretted it .. That and the tide of "vaccine" (and, vaccine), injured , and parents, are a powerful force of undeniable truth ..
And, tails up (sorry!), but species dysphoria is on the way ... https://freedomofform.org/
Now that freedom of form site is disturbing to put it mildly.
Thank you, Winston, for unpacking our current absurdities. I would love to read your further thoughts in a Part 2 of this article, about the work of brave souls as we venture out of the cave, and for those of us already outside.
Thanks Navyo - certainly there are many who maintain a firm grasp on objective truth, or at least realize there is an objective reality and strive to understand it. I’ll attempt to write more about a certain robustness and even selflessness (or limiting self-consciousness) required to face a reality that doesn’t always “resonate” with you.
If we truly strive to better understand our reality, we must first accept that our current 'truth' is not complete. If we believe that our grasp of reality is the true one, do we really have the ability to ask the difficult questions needed to better our understanding?
Agreed - we must accept that our 'truth' isn't complete - as it says in the Bible, we see as through a glass darkly - i.e. we don't have a clear vision due to our natural limitations. And yes, I believe we can ask the difficult questions needed to better our understanding - and the courage to do so, especially in this climate of cancel culture where challenges to the 'narrative' are often met with irrational condemnation.
Excellent questions. I look forward to hearing you discuss them further.
I tried to watch a John Cage production on YT because I had never heard of him. So glad I did not waste the entire 7 minutes of #433, or other. The pianist sat down and never touched the keys.
The freedom of form site was truly disturbing Ellen.
Garden of Eden... Why would god leave the tree there, but to test his subjects?
Oh, it's got knowledge, but don't eat from it, because I said so.
Sounds like the FDA and CDC today with data.
But that's "my truth" hahaha
Another interesting view would be to look at the stories of Satan "instructing" people as their own split... If you consider the bicameral mind theory.
Short summary of bicameral mind:
-We used to act automatically with the help from the gods. (Direct control, no conscious choice)
-Later, gods spoke to us in voices, as a guide. (Not direct control, some 'choice' involved)
-Then, we lost the ability to hear the gods. (No longer influenced by "god")
This progression is from having a divided mind that started to link together, eventually not needing "voices" in order to communicate between hemispheres...
It's pretty close to the garden of Eden story... We were a part of god (a robot), then we were influenced by god, and nowadays not influenced by god but by "logic" as we see science today.
I hope the next step of humanity, we start to realize that even though we don't "hear god", our subconscious still drives a lot of our perception.
Then, perhaps we can be closer to reality and not assume that what we see or hear is always true.
The more I know, the more I realize that I know very little.
On the Garden of Eden ...
The Bible tells us about an all powerful, all knowing and all wise God who created all things and in particular people whom he made in his image. If you accept this then you are likely to wonder what being made in His image means anyway. Part of being made in His image means we are like Him in certain ways BUT we aren't Him. We have some power but aren't all powerful, we know things but don't know everything, we have some wisdom but aren't all wise. As we aren't God we can't know exactly all the reasons why He put the tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden in the first place and may reason "well why not simply leave it out of the garden?" If God knows all then he knew the humans would be curious, want to learn, want to test things so they could know what would happen. So really they met their second test at the tree. The first test was did they believe what God had said and the second was when it was put to them "Did God really say that? Then they had a lie put to them that if they did eat from the tree they would be like God, when they were ALREADY like God.
But back to knowing all things means God knew that they would fail to follow his instructions before He even created them and knew what the results of disobeying Him would be. Satan essentially forced them to make the choice of their own free will to obey or to disobey God. There was nothing essentially evil about the tree or the fruit of the tree. Eating the fruit was an act of disobedience against God and was what gave Adam and Eve the knowledge of evil—and the knowledge of their nakedness.
God did not want Adam and Eve to disobey Him. He wanted them to freely choose to love Him and choose to obey Him because He is all knowing He knew what was best for them. We have the same choice today, to choose to freely love Him and obey Him or not. If He did not make the choice available, if we were not given the choice and we could ONLY do the right thing then that isn't displaying love for Him. He could have made us robotic with zero choice but that's not what He wanted and not what He did. We have the same choice today in our other relationships, to choose to do the right thing by others.
Can't trust anyone who thinks there is no objective truth. Refreshing to read someone writing about it.
But always beware of those who have no doubt in their truth. None of us are truly objective, in spite of what every we feel.
Nice article . . . but mentioning Cage brings to mind the idea of iconoclasm. Iconoclasm is the fear of images and was very destructive towards classical western art. In fact, certain types of Modernism are iconoclastic in that the abstract artists, whether minimal or expressionist, criticized classical western art as, yes, lying. Because an image of a tree or a saint isn't real. It's paint on a wall, board or canvas. Or made of wood or stone. Therefore, fake. Same goes with Islam. Images are lies that offend Mohammed. Lately, they blew up world-heritage Buddhist icons.
Hedonism and self delusion
Good read, Winaton, Will be linking once again @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/
This is a great article and really gets to the heart of the matter -- before we can move on together, we have to agree on what reality is. I wrote about this a little while back!
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/failure-to-agree-on-reality
How can we come to any sort of resolution of a problem if (at least) one side refuses to acknowledge the reality of the situation, and if we’re simply yelling past one another and not listening? I’ve often said that as a libertarian, I understand the importance of taking your allies on a position wherever you can find them. If you want to end the war on drugs, let’s work together — your position on other issues is irrelevant as it pertains to the war on drugs. But it today’s political climate, the politicians are too busy demonizing the other side to ask for their support on important matters. Since we don’t actually interact and discuss, we’re basically living in two separate realities.
Well put - thanks for the link to your article.
The Truth Jesus was referring to is not about telling the truth. It is much more, much higher than that. Truth, is a spiritual current that cannot be written or spoken, it is a Power.
Referred to it as Logos, Holy Spirit, the Comforter, The Word (not the written word).
It is the Creative energy of God which is within everyone, but rare is the person who realizes and experiences it.
But where dos the Teaching and Revelation of Truth come from?
http://www.dabase.com/up-4-1.htm
And is there really an objective world "out there", and what are the devastating cultural consequences of what is at root an emotionally primitive childish even infantile, and terrifying idea too!
http://www.dabase.org/asana-science.htm
Meanwhile please check out this reference re Adam & Eve in the Garden of Indestructible Light
http://beezone.com/adidajesus/adamnervoussystemeveflesh.html
Truth of course cannot be falsified. All dogmas are essentially false and are at root about power and control. They are certainly not about Truth Reality and The Beautiful Itself, or Freedom.
http://global.adidam.org/books/eleutherios The Only Truth That Sets the Heart Free.
http://global.adidam.org/books/hridaya-rosary
Check out this references re Art and Reality.
http://www.artandphysics.com
Please also check out The Truth Book (The Aletheon) via this reference
http://www.adidam.org/teaching/aletheon/real-god-is-not-the-cause
This reference describes the Process involved in the writing of the many books written by him, and a list of his books too
Hi!
Very good article
Perhaps you could also have mentioned the Pragmatic theory of truth - that our knowledge is always necessarily imperfect and we have to proceed understanding the limitations of our knowledge.
Perhaps you were unfair to Bertrand Russell, expounding something similar to the Natural Law version of truth
Good point - our knowledge is limited and imperfect - a good reason our heath “experts” should tread more carefully and less arrogantly.