Musings on Reality - Stream-of-consciousness
Reality is what you can't know. What you can't be certain of. It is the future. it is what will happen, what could happen. It is what causes pain, what permits opportunity, what defeats planning.
You must have an engagement with the future. A questing inside it that pushes its bounds, forces it to open up.
Reality is where the cracks between we thinking sapients are. It is the medium through which we relate to each other, to every other thing. Every separate thing has its own bubble of truth, buffered by a kind of "dark matter" of fear, uncertainty, an abyss of unknowing. A falsehood.
God is here. God is in between knowledge, before an action and after it, in the transitions. Perhaps not. Perhaps God is also the stillness and the certainty.
Morality is here. The grand falsehood, the absolutist wrong.
Power is the assertion of the truth of one being upon the truth of another. It acts through reality onto this other and so changes it. Justice is the reaction of a non-conformant action. Power that is non-conformant with the moral reality provokes a backlash of justice, usually disproportionate, but always well meant. That justice does not always refer to our own ideals of justice, such as a law enforcement officer beating down someone for speaking freely, simply means that our own truth violates that of theirs in some way, some how.
Is our duty to respond to this Kantian? After all, this assertion of Power was noticed by us, or we would never feel slighted by it. It is a Ripple: the stone dropped into a pond has caused waves through out the ocean, and those of us who are eroded by this want it to be rectified. So we reassert ourselves against what we see as false justice and in doing so attempt to conform reality to our truth.
When we act relationally--and we often act relationally--it can be a movement in the direction of either love or fear.
Upon movement (wtf is movement), our current self is forced into contact with reality through the medium of pain or uncertainty (what was #3?). At which point we can either act decisively (choice) or indecisively (as slaves). We can either be mindful (attention) or mindless (brutality). If our choice is self-affirming, then we have acted with integrity. If our choice affirms another, then we have acted with joy. If our understanding is self-affirming, then we have thought philosophically. If our understanding is affirms another, then we have thought considerately.
You must have an engagement with the future. A questing inside it that pushes its bounds, forces it to open up.
Reality is where the cracks between we thinking sapients are. It is the medium through which we relate to each other, to every other thing. Every separate thing has its own bubble of truth, buffered by a kind of "dark matter" of fear, uncertainty, an abyss of unknowing. A falsehood.
God is here. God is in between knowledge, before an action and after it, in the transitions. Perhaps not. Perhaps God is also the stillness and the certainty.
Morality is here. The grand falsehood, the absolutist wrong.
Power is the assertion of the truth of one being upon the truth of another. It acts through reality onto this other and so changes it. Justice is the reaction of a non-conformant action. Power that is non-conformant with the moral reality provokes a backlash of justice, usually disproportionate, but always well meant. That justice does not always refer to our own ideals of justice, such as a law enforcement officer beating down someone for speaking freely, simply means that our own truth violates that of theirs in some way, some how.
Is our duty to respond to this Kantian? After all, this assertion of Power was noticed by us, or we would never feel slighted by it. It is a Ripple: the stone dropped into a pond has caused waves through out the ocean, and those of us who are eroded by this want it to be rectified. So we reassert ourselves against what we see as false justice and in doing so attempt to conform reality to our truth.
When we act relationally--and we often act relationally--it can be a movement in the direction of either love or fear.
Upon movement (wtf is movement), our current self is forced into contact with reality through the medium of pain or uncertainty (what was #3?). At which point we can either act decisively (choice) or indecisively (as slaves). We can either be mindful (attention) or mindless (brutality). If our choice is self-affirming, then we have acted with integrity. If our choice affirms another, then we have acted with joy. If our understanding is self-affirming, then we have thought philosophically. If our understanding is affirms another, then we have thought considerately.