Mind over matter.
Quality over substance. Form follows
Function.
The problem we have, I think, is the way that we've taken the idea of a subject/object duality, and called that the "truth".
For all we know "substance" is nothing but an extension of a non physical reality which is nothing BUT mind, the
nuos.
Aristotle was wrong, and therefore the entire ediface of Western thought is also wrong, and the Good above all as the MO of "The One" cannot be
defined by dialectic.
Our very reason is faulty, imho.
To be "reasonable" we must be unreasonable, and to be rational, we must be supra-rational. We must have the capacity to concieve of the inconcievable.
"God made your spirit with wings to fly in the spacious firmament of love and freedom. How pathetic therefore, to lop off your wings by your own hand,
and suffer yourselves to crawl like vermin upon the earth."
~ Khalil Gibran
Until we reunite spirit and matter, very little real progress can be made.
"The time is coming, and indeed, it is already here, when people need no longer worship either on the mountain or in the temple, because
God is
Spirit and Truth, who seeks worshippers who worship in Spirit and in Truth."
~ Jesus, to the Samaritan Woman at the Well
What we need is a new understanding, an understanding that existed with the Sophists prior to the enthronment of reason by Plato and Aristotle, and
the usurpation of the Quality of the Good by a false truth ie: a LIE.
What's needed is to kill the false mythos, and have the courage to enter into a new age, an age of reason AND spirit both.
The materialist realist POV, is not only false, but one that just totally sucks, by sucking the very life out of the meaning and purpose of life
itself.
There are different ways of believing in and approaching God, if only the damn atheists would stop ASSUMING, then perhaps, just maybe, there might be
an opportunity and room for general agreement and a new mythos capable of salvaging the meaning and purpose of life, and reuniting people in pursuit
of a commonly shared ideal, based on something we all know and can agree upon - Quality aka The Good.
edit on 24-3-2011 by NewAgeMan because: rant over/