Albert Herdianto Widjojo
Paying attention to the sky wherever we are is always very pleasant. The mysteries of the sky so often shift our attraction from limited beauty, from the beauty of worldly scenes toward It, unless our minds are indeed tempted and bound by worldly things.
As a perfect symbol of the paradox about duality, the sky is an active character who is very intelligent in playing his role. Even as a parable of the truth.
We can see a piece of sky that keeps changing from behind a window in a house shaded by the sky, and indeed that is the truth, a piece of truth, maybe a mini truth, even that’s a truth which is very debatable if it must be compared to the sky from another window, another frame. Even in the open, the sky can still be blocked by many things like trees, bridges, sophisticated warplanes, sunglasses, etc. as other truths. Even in the most open places, we still see “half” of the sky because the other parts are hidden behind the horizon. Indeed, the frameless sky is truly unlimited.
Absolute truth is like an infinite sky that covers everything which limited, while relative truth is like a narrow and limited window frame. Divinity, True Truth, Pure Consciousness, pure intelligence is an infinite sky while everything we know, or we believe is just like a frame and a window even though that knowledge and belief have been passed down through generations.
That is the reason why I do not want to think of the mind as the captain or determinant of truth. The mind tends to strengthen the ego (my religion, my people, my tribe, my group, my family, my wealth, my position, my knowledge, and especially myself) and create projections and fantasies and falsify the truth. Only if the mind stops, is calm, and becomes clearer in other finer dimensions will begin to enter.
The spiritual point of view considers knowledge and belief to be blind ignorance as well as Galileo who was previously punished by ignorance of dogmatic beliefs for saying little truths.
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If you live in the same age as Galileo, will you join in punishing him?
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Do you agree that knowledge – about anything – is not a true truth?
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If you agree or disagree, do you have a reason?
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+Facts not in evidence is the legal term. It refers to supposition and arguments raised by an attorney that is not bound to evidence in the overall case.
Information is useless.
Knowledge is at best a slippery slope.
There are two sides to everything. The problem that Galileo ran into is one we are experiencing now in the modern world.
Who is right?
How do you determine right?
When my perspective is in line with a technology expert, I feel that I have great support! Only you who dare say that the problem facing Galileo is still the same as what we experience. If we now say that we will not punish Galileo, it is because we have entered further truth, but what about the phenomenology of Galileo in this age? because in fact we still fail to understand such a thing.
Software and data that we store in our memory which we use as a mind have many limitations. Of all that, we know and we believe (as truth), most are inherited from previous people with all their truths and mistakes, the rest is partially renewed with contemporary knowledge as a result of civilization progress through all discoveries, scientific knowledge and technology developments, and vision of the future.
Who and how to determine the truth? Of course humans, but certainly not the human mind.
The rise of Fake News has left us jaded.
Now I wonder, is there a world leader that is willing, to tell the truth?
lol…
I think those who are on the political scene, who know more than us in general, are the ones who often hide the truth.
Perhaps it is time to start bailing cause the ship is full of water now…
Interesting parable!
Who will do it, Doc? Both of us?
We should my friend, here is a virtual bucket, remember to throw the virtual water away from the virtual ship.
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Right. I think we all have to do it together for that is a shared responsibility…
It is,
The more you rise in the ranks of Virily the more responsibility you have for the success of the site.
Those who benefit the most have to pay the greatest tax.
Sometimes, a new discovery on something can be fun to read, whether you agree with it is another thing. Science and tech is always improving, When the “folding” phone rumours started coming out, everyone thought it’s some gimmicks for views/attention … but now, Samsung have one and Huawei have one!
Perhaps we still live in the rules of the people ahead of us … but sometimes breaking a rule, breaks the boundary into something better … or worst … it’s unknown.
We really have to have an open mind to step on new discoveries and new knowledge, and that still those all has the truth, completes the truth or changes the truth, although it is still not all truth.
I think almost all innovations or inventions have started from violations of boundaries.
Having an open mind is important… if science and tech is evolving, I would believe so is the “truth” … Perhaps there is never a “true truth”, just truth of the common believes or mostly believe … or even worst what is release as the “truth” … Bleh, I’m getting confused myself lol :/
But yeah, breaking boundaries seems to be the “key ingredient” to innovation …
Hopefully, someday there will be a technology that can bring people to enter themselves, go within to realize the true truth.
Knowledge and truth … I do not know just that I think that there are many fabrications in certain skills my friend
You have an impressive and interesting opinion, dear friend. Basically I agree with you. To more understand of what you mean, may I know more specifically what you mean by “fabrications in certain skills”?
One fiction I’ve read about not long ago is that it was supposed to be the first astronaut’s walking on the moon photo-fixing … and who will then believe dear friend
Oh… So this is about engineering about the first landed on the moon… Yayaya… I’ve also read a number of articles about that, dear friend.
Well, to whom now I have to believe … even though it does not matter to me whether he walked through the moon or made up … and such events would still be found dear friend
I think we just need to be open-minded, dear friend. That way we will be broad-minded, easier to compare objectively various knowledge, facts and beliefs as a temporary thought or knowledge.
In my opinion, there is no one in the world that we can fully believe in to say the true truth.
Exactly dear friend….Everything is skermercialized … they speak what is best for them and that they draw as much money as possible
That’s a sad fact, right? But I think we are lucky because we are not part of those who do it.
Well, with my acquired knowledge I would not have punished Galileo, however you need to consider that people in those days were not very well educated and ignorant of many things.
It is people like Galileo who only recently found out new knowledge, and was brave enough to come forward with it, that are hugely responsible to contribute to what we know today.
Science is an organised knowledge, and mankind is an evolving intelligence.
A cup of sugar, or salt or any substance is not a pure substance, because that which is not seen is often with it.
Same with science. One day they say Soy is good for you, then next Soy is bad for you and then as we go forward, the experts change their minds.
Sometimes we need to keep an open mind and others make up our own minds.
Open mind, it is a very important thing to accept or understand the truth, I strongly agree with you. I think in some aspects of human life in general today, openness, especially as a result of technological progress, has developed well, but in certain cases such as knowledge of what we believe, our beliefs about what we know, or otherwise against all that we do not we know and we don’t believe, all of which we consider to be truth, still not significant. Well, although maybe that is only in my perspective.
Again, I strongly agree with your idea of the importance of openness, and this writting is about it, and of course so that people are moved to make their own decisions.
Thank you for your deep thoughts, Pamela.
the knowledge we have is incomplete, not the whole truth
Agree, and that is a good reason to keep us humble, right?
humility is protection from shame
The truth is really like the endless sky. He sees everyone’s truth with his own eyes and sometimes hurts
Oh dear… Oh, dear…
There is one more wise woman here …
I agree with you, dear friend. I think truth often hurts because we can’t see it as a truth other than the truth in the version we want.
It’s true, we can’t evolve if we let the ego restrain our minds.
I think fear plays an important role in this: it keeps us in a bubble, protected but trapped at the same time. How many people would want to leave a fake but comforting certainty for anything unknown?
Owh! Who’s talking here?
Wow! Sabtraversa… I agree with you! Both about evolution, fear, bubbles, trapped, and something unknown.
You are talented to find the truth, dear friend.
I would not have punished Galileo for his belief in Heliocentrism. Who has the right to determine if he was right or wrong. We should all be allowed to have our own beliefs, both back in Galileo’s time and the present. Just because you have the knowledge and the facts, there could still be facts you are not aware of. Just my opinion.
Only wise people like you do not judge others. Yes, a piece of fact is not all facts.