Perfection

[fencing_chick13]

Well... its been a while since frankly I haven't felt motivated to write, its silly, but you have to have some motivation to say something, because I can be perfectly content with saying nothing at times, as long as the silence isn't awakard....like my spelling. So... on to my title, perfection

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hmm...very mystical, if I might say...

[bindedmind]

Please be aware that I am not making an attack on your person, but your arguement. If perfection has "no solid definition", then how did you just define it as an idea? Rather, perfection does exist in an ultimate and absolute form, but we humans cannot pin-point the exact criterium of it. Some people have many requirements that go into the completion of perfection, while others have very few. Perhaps, it is a brief instant, or perhaps it is more lasting. What people believe does not shape what perfection is, it simply guides them in their pursuit of it. This is the concept of perspective, and the realization perspective is the key to understanding.

Picture this. There is an apple sitting on a table in a cafe. Person A looks at yon apple on table and claims, "Hey! Look at that red apple."
Person B, sitting at a table across from person A, looks at the apple and replies, "Sir, I don't know what you are talking about, but that apple there is a green as lush grass."
Person A: What are you smoking? It's completely red!
Person B: Perhaps, if you are color-blind and can't tell the difference.

These two could go on arguing about said apple until they explode, but they'll never learn anything until they get up and examine the apple more closely, specifically from the other person's perspective. After doing so, they may find out that the apple was really a fugi, or perhaps light from a stained-glass window had shined on one side, causing it to look a different color.

My point os to argue with the concept of relativism. Whether or not people agree on the apple's color, the apple is still there and it is a certain color, unless, of course, you believe in the Matrix and the apple is a program channeled into our minds. The point is simply that the apple IS, even though we argue over the specifics. Many things in this world simply exist, like gravity and time and other physical principles. We are surrounded by absolutes. If there were no absolutes, there would be no real difference between life and death, love and hate; every action would be justified by an individual's decision. Don't be fooled, one person's opinion does not rule the world.

There is one variation to my theory, not an exeption, but a variation. Sometimes, people get caught up in definitions, like love, for instance. There are many emotions and decisions tat are flippantly given the title love. These are all called love, and some of our human definitions and criteria for love may be accurate, but the is one definition that surpasses the others (I cannot tell you which one that is, but only what I believe it would be).
Remember, my friend, that even in the Matrix, where everything we see is omposed of false imaged put into our brain, they are still real. They are not the things we see, but the programs that channel that perspective unto us. (in case you wonder about my fixation w/ Matrix, I've had to convince a few highschool buddies that the Matrix does not exist).
There are absolutes, we just can't prove which answer is correct in our limited perspective. Gain more perspective, and you will surely gain understanding.

after reading over this again...

[bindedmind]

...I have realized that I should have used some sort of spell-check on the above post. Oh, well. Point made. So, how's life, Jenny?