Recognizing Information From Knowledge, Nonsense From Wisdom
If the sand represents information, the table knowledge, and the jewelry box wisdom, understanding would be distinguishing between all of these and knowing how to open the box of wisdom. |
To summarize this article's message:
All this I tested by wisdom and I said,
“I am determined to be wise”—
but this was beyond me.
Whatever exists is far off and most profound—
who can discover it?
So I turned my mind to understand,
to investigate and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things
and to understand the stupidity of wickedness
and the madness of folly.
- Ecclesiastes 7: 23-25
The internet may seem to have a treasure trove of important information.
Some of this information is cloaked as 'knowledge', or something worth knowing.
However, despite the fact that moments of indisputable Truth can be found among pages of nonsense and poor opinions, not every person is able to decipher Truth from nonsense.
Why is this?
This is due to their personal and relative truth, among other shortsightedness.
Relative truth is an example example of a scheme intended to replace wisdom and understanding from Above.
“Look,” says the Teacher, “this is what I have discovered:
“Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things—
while I was still searching
but not finding—
I found one upright man among a thousand,
but not one upright woman among them all.
This only have I found:
God created mankind upright,
but they have gone in search of many schemes.”
- Ecclesiastes 7: 27-29
Observation of things visible only grants a surface understanding of reality as it actually is, not reality as men would ponder it to be, desire it to be, or limit it to be according to their perceptions (observations).
Here is a short scientific (observation and tested qualifiers for truth) article that about patterns seen, patterns perceived, and patterns denied.
I share this with my own caveat: just
because others say that a pattern exists (or does not), or what one
mind perceives as 'happening', does not mean that 'thing'
is not happening (or is).
In other words: just because one person agrees or does not agree with another person's perceptions does not mean
such perceptions are incorrect when it comes to truth and fact.
There is Truth, and then there is
relative truth... and both cross paths because of our human
condition.
Truth is not dependent on a democracy
(or even a single person's agreement / acknowledgment) in order to be
validated.
This is the entire issue regarding all
aspects of life (politics, economics, philosophy, etc.) and
especially God.
Many people, throughout history up until
Today, have had real-life experiences with things supernatural,
metaphysical, spiritual, et al.
Many others, throughout history and up
until Today, have not and unfortunately never will.
Yet some people who have not experienced
anything mystifying actually believe somehow, while some people who
have experienced things beyond somehow do not (and vice versa).
Paradox.
This shows that experience (or the lack
of it) as a basis of something actually 'being' true or a fact as
acknowledged by the individual, is not always certain. (yet this is how man's logic desires to verify some thing or idea or notion)
Why?
Because any particular individual has to
agree with both their experience and the thoughts / ideas / testimony
of others that have preceded them in order to arrive at their
relative truth.
And again, the Truth doesn't need
anyone's agreement to be the Truth... and while one man's relative truth
contradicts Truth, another man's relative truth may come close
or simply repeat Truth's evidence.
If anything, the Truth (reality beyond
the veil) is a constant.... despite man's experience.
Why?
Because man's experience is largely
illusion (not mystically an illusion, but ideas built upon other
ideas of men... these ideas being largely either lies or outright
short-sided opinions of what 'is').
Thus by the ideas of men and their
relative truths have presumptions led others astray and into the mire.
A rudimentary example is the bogus
notion having been popularized once again that the earth is flat.
Absolutely ridiculous to doubt that the
earth is a spherical shape after centuries of human experience
through circumnavigation via ocean vessels, and last century into
outer space.
To question a difference now made
evident by simple observation that the earth is spherical similar to all
other celestial bodies, any digression from this fact is made into an
argument conveyed and presented in such a way that it can be made to
sound 'true' and convincing.
Besides mass optical illusion and further paradox in space and time, the question then, for those believing
this nonsense, would be: if they were to go up into space themselves
and see for themselves not only the curvature of the earth... but
travel far enough to see the entire 'circle' of the earth as we see
the sun, moon, other planets, would they continue to hold onto the
previous idea that the earth was flat?
Sadly, not all will be convinced.
There will always be those who are
thoroughly convinced BEFORE facts and experience (going into space)
teaches them.
They will continue to argue that the
earth is flat.
They will likely introduce the argument
of the coin.
No matter how much their space craft
travels to another coordinate to 'see' the earth from another vantage
point (for example, at 45 degrees from previous point), they will
come up with another excuse / rationale to argue their already
pre-determined idea.
Their inability to accept their
first-hand experience reveals their delusion.
One reasoning for this is possibly that
they hold onto their thoughts out of fear or turmoil in accepting new
information that will dismiss their pre- and ill-conceived notions.
This is why both scientists and
religious persons 'see' things differently despite being beholden to
the same swath of information and being adherent to the same modes of
thought.
I see a sharp response from the doors
of the internet being opened to the masses.
I too had my time of comprehending not
only the crimes of mankind, but also my place in the world and how to
go about life now knowing things high and low.
There exists since the beginning with the first man and woman the temptation of rebellion / disobedience.... and the supposed euphoria from
perceiving another way, or certain solutions towards resolving problems caused by rebellion and disobedience.
We each find ourselves among the noise.
I think it all comes down to this:
The human being is subject to the
rudiments of this world.
In time, the human being realizes he is
a slave to this world's apparatus.
The human may blame other humans, but
doing so is not accurate since those others are also subjects, not
free at all (perhaps only 'free' in their minds, but their life and soul reflecting things honestly).
This is why blaming others (or killing
them as some religious and political elements suggest) does not change reality nor the self, because the struggle is
actually and always has been within.
The issue and battle is spiritual, things unseen and found within despite their outward manifestations.
It is what occurs within (and those
battles) that determine what comes about without (outside).
The world seems like mass chaos and
destructive to some minds because they primarily focus on these
matters... and they have a difficult time seeing or experiencing anything lovely, honest, peaceful.
Secondly, such realities reveal that mankind has to deal
with the consequences or their choices and that of others.
For other people (and various points in
between the two extremes), the world looks like a wonderful place
full of beautiful things, amazing realities, and teaching things
beyond the surface... despite the obvious turmoil.
Somewhere in between the two extremes
are all of us found along some point.
The great thing is that we can shift
along the axis points... most people sliding across the "x"
axis, while some either finding or being shown the "y"
axis.
To summarize this article's message again:
All this I tested by wisdom and I said,
“I am determined to be wise”—
but this was beyond me.
Whatever exists is far off and most profound—
who can discover it?
So I turned my mind to understand,
to investigate and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things
and to understand the stupidity of wickedness
and the madness of folly.
- Ecclesiastes 7: 23-25
The internet may seem to have a treasure trove of important information.
Some of this information is cloaked as 'knowledge', or something worth knowing.
However, despite the fact that moments of indisputable Truth can be found among pages of nonsense and poor opinions, not every person is able to decipher Truth from nonsense.
Why is this?
This is due to their personal and relative truth, among other shortsightedness.
Relative truth is an example example of a scheme intended to replace wisdom and understanding from Above.
“Look,” says the Teacher, “this is what I have discovered:
“Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things—
while I was still searching
but not finding—
I found one upright man among a thousand,
but not one upright woman among them all.
This only have I found:
God created mankind upright,
but they have gone in search of many schemes.”
- Ecclesiastes 7: 27-29
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