You really like to explain yourself, huh? That's not a bad thing, but if you're actually trying to explain why I need to stop examining my own internal experience, then you're explaining that to the wrong girl.
Especially if your point is predicated on the idea that humans can't know the nature or face of God, or themselves--individually or as the collective known as humanity. That's actually wrong. In fact, it's so wrong that I'm going to have a hard time picking a place to explain from.
Understanding ourselves and each other requires us to examine and try to understand the world, and giving up on that simply because of the scope appears to dwarf the finite power and knowledge of your individual self is self-defeating. Of course the whole is going to be way beyond you! You can't freeze up just because something is too big for you to see or understand all of it.
Also, what you're calling gods and mortals isn't really what you think you're explaining.... but I don't think I should explain the world to you. But know that the world isn't going to reveal itself to you just because you asked, and it's not going to do that because you gave up, either.
In other words, even if you don't find any answers, you should still try to ask more questions while you're still alive to ask them. Okay? That's just a little advice.
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Okay, got it.
You really like to explain yourself, huh? That's not a bad thing, but if you're actually trying to explain why I need to stop examining my own internal experience, then you're explaining that to the wrong girl.
Especially if your point is predicated on the idea that humans can't know the nature or face of God, or themselves--individually or as the collective known as humanity. That's actually wrong. In fact, it's so wrong that I'm going to have a hard time picking a place to explain from.
Understanding ourselves and each other requires us to examine and try to understand the world, and giving up on that simply because of the scope appears to dwarf the finite power and knowledge of your individual self is self-defeating. Of course the whole is going to be way beyond you! You can't freeze up just because something is too big for you to see or understand all of it.
Also, what you're calling gods and mortals isn't really what you think you're explaining.... but I don't think I should explain the world to you. But know that the world isn't going to reveal itself to you just because you asked, and it's not going to do that because you gave up, either.
In other words, even if you don't find any answers, you should still try to ask more questions while you're still alive to ask them. Okay? That's just a little advice.