Friday 13 August 2010

We Live in a Generally Incomplete System if it is a System at All

A certain lesson of Christianity is that we live within a general physical, non-material, abstract, extensive, and intensive system. How complete we see it or whether we are prepared to update our understanding of it, is largely up to us with a little help from our friends. Well, perhaps, sometimes, we need a lot of help from friends and people who would share with us years of research and gathering of ideas, techniques of understanding, and occasionally very basic research.

I am not a believer in creationism because I sense that it is an brilliantly over-simplistic view of what is, what was, and what can be. Religions try to be all encompassing and omnipresent just as the physical and mathematical sciences try to be. None of these attempts at understanding is really very complete. Math is very incomplete. Science is mostly incomplete. The reality of faiths is that they are extraordinarily incomplete pretending to be complete. The great knowledge pretenders is what we see all around us. Especially my writing. I am so very incomplete that it shames me.

It's true also that our image of Jesus, Mohammed, Bhudda, Mao, Husain and all the great or lessor thinkers, pseudo-god figures, gurus, teachers, professors, KGB or CIA operatives, terrorists, radicals, researchers, politicians, healers, yogas, leaders, forecasters, prophets, and spiritualists, will present messages to us that are mostly incomplete. We need to be aware of our limitations and theirs. Many will pretend to know, but their stories are mostly incomplete. It's largely a question of how critical our thinking has become.

As, we familiarize ourselves with more and more ideas and phenomena, we begin to realize that awareness of truth, which comes in fits and bits, is a journey without end.

Will ye no think kindly on those who would be your friends! May the sun shine with your thoughts, today, and happiness grow in your heart! May you allow yourself some peace of mind.

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