Forgive me for making my own assumptions. I tend to get a little carried away, and in doing so, prematurely assume that certain things, within my own perspective, are included into other peoples. I do realize that that is not true, but I still find myself doing just that, as you pointed out. I also understand that it is all about perspective, and that there is no right and no wrong. All is right and/or wrong depending on your own view and the unique criteria/experiences/values/beliefs that each one of us compares to. However, the conundrum I cannot seem to resolve is if there is something behind all of this. Many writings/traditions/religions talk about a path. A path that will lead to a place that is outside the realm of description, a sense of being that cannot be related within any context including language or mathematics. I think that is what the Cabala, the Alchemists, the Buddhists, the Taoists, etc. are explaining. They are all just speaking from different perspectives to the same goal. I find it difficult to describe, obviously because I do not understand it myself, and I wonder if it is something that cannot be understood at all. Anyway, it is somewhat seen through even your own Poly Solipsism theory. If what you say is correct, and I agree with you from within my own limited perspective that it is, it essentially boils down to a single statement (for me at least!): The Truth:
there is no truth. Obviously this statement is a difficult one to grasp, and is clearly the same thing that Gödel talked about with the Cretans. If this is correct, then it makes me ask the question: What is reality? If there is no truth, then what is the material world that I interact with and see each day? Possibly this is all just a manifestation of what people agree to believe in. Perhaps, if I can convince enough people to believe that I am a millionaire then it will be so, or that I am Christ, or whatever. I have come to believe, and it is entirely premature at this stage to discuss how or why, but I do believe that there is more than this statement presents. If simply because I am here, I know that I exist and somehow that is more to me. Or put another way, if there was no truth, nothing, nada, then why am I conscious? As I said this is currently where I cannot seem to escape from, is there something more, outside what we know? Are we able to escape from the box we are in, or is it all just a game? Is all that is written and taught pure hokum, designed to trick us into thinking that there is more? Making us believe in something to spur its own existence within our limited perception of reality. Is it all just an elaborate illusion, designed to mask us from the Truth (there is no truth). My heart tells me there is more, and that I need to walk a path and I might be able to escape the barriers of what is known within our limited perspective. But my logic tells me that this is just another false hope, another false religion. This is what I was asking you, Chuck and Chris, not because I think that your answers will help me directly (we have different perspectives) but just to know where you are, your intentions, I am
not sure if any of this makes sense to you, and it probably doesn't
matter anyway, since I cannot clearly describe how I feel to you,
and you cannot clearly describe how you feel to me. The diagram below
is a crude representation of my question.
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