March 2, 2013
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truth
Truth is a funny creature. It can take many forms and have only one effect. This proves to be conflicting when it comes to the impression and perceptions of our species and its view of the universe. Truth is universal and intimate to the individual selves that experience it. It becomes disjointed and often misled, because truth is an energy that remains impartial and at the same time exact. The elastic nature of it alone confuses most people into thinking that they own or in some way possess truth where other people do not. This factor alone is a major source of conflict and pain in the world of humankind since the ability to communicate became refined. The action that i am doing now for instance, writing , is an expression of how truth, based on human perception can influence and create the illusion of connection to the universe. Writing was originally created to keep tally of the trade deals that were going on when agriculture first began. it was a way of seeing how much was owed and who was being dishonest. the earliest artifacts that contain writing have been deciphered to represent the spreadsheets of modern day accountants. That is why much of the ‘letters’ of ancient alphabets show or depict animals and other forms of produce. so, centuries long after the original use of words and written language was created, the written language has become a perception of truth,depending on a person’s private interpretation of truth. for instance, some of you may not accept what i just said and you may actually dismiss it’s validity. suits me fine, i mean i took archeology, it is after all a part of anthropology. meaning, it is true regardless of what anyone thinks or not, but here is what i am trying to show, it is still questioned regardless.
Which is fine, the freedom to question anything that is of the human mind and rhetoric is a privilege which we humans endeavor to participate and share exclusively. It is after all just an extension of our ability to recognize connection and harmony within the universe that we perceive.What i mean is we all have to participate in order to fully define the universe we are in and, if a person maintains an open approach they can perceive a full picture of an element within existence through the positive and negative. the best way to understand this is through the idea of a vacuum, which can only exist if there is a container. so there is the inside and the outside, both of which depending on a person’s vantage define the shape and therefore the existence of the vacuum. many social issues we face these days are constructed this way in our minds, with our minds borrowing from both sides to complete the vision of the object which we , individually conceive as truth. These statements can permute into conditional arguments which go either direction but originate from a single statement or question. gay marriage, same sex families,abortions and even the concept of self defense can easily be shown to display exactly what i am saying here. however, the intimate nature of the thought involved and subsequent deduction which results into the solution, based on personal vision or perception of the object in question sometimes results in denial. such is the nature of human thought, which can have a positive effect in reality.
universal truth exists outside the control of the human mind. we find this problematic. for centuries we have attempted to either control or in some way communicate with it. from the great diviners like Nostradamus or even the religious text of the christian faith called revelations, all the way to the horoscope and fanciful conceptions of spiritualism that exist in modern times, we have not allowed the possibility of being at the whim of truth, universal to stray far from us. Some of these dogma are passive and others are aggressive. but either way, they remain subjective. which is not all that surprising for an animal that is predominantly a master of subjective interpretation. it makes sense, when we are unconsciously aware of the passage of the sun at differing times of the year and arrival or departure of migrating animals. the sense of knowing just kind of dawns on us. how many of you are truly surprised when the first days of spring arrive? we , watch nature exclusively and intricately even in our modern times. yet socially amongst ourselves practice the belief of being in control and often even stating that we are in tune with it.
human behavior is probably the first science that ever truly existed. we have body language which is genetically a language that is ingrained inside of us. each of us , so in tune with it , that we have physiological changes occur unconsciously inside of us regardless of our own thoughts. it is unavoidable and can not be controlled naturally, only manipulated . such was the understanding of the ancients. they attempted to try and impart an ideological foundation for both understanding and based on cultural differences what their society and its rituals conceive as good and bad. religions, for the most part are the first attempt to try and understand or acknowledge this reality in human existence. hence the attractiveness of eastern philosophy and the moral stories of Aesop. these and many other scriptures purport a sense of order and balance that in the long part utilized the foundation of what once was animism and our connection to the nature and the presence of the human self within. even the folk tales of brer rabbit, which originated from timeless African myths, had nature acting out various caricatures with human attributes. the christian bible, also has many references to human behavior and supposed outcomes.Sodom and Gomorrah for example represent a type of moral lesson which under the guise of religion is just a segment of the statement of what can only be considered as the first attempts to somehow understand the truth of humans and nature. if one expands objectively, the whole enterprise of religion and its effect on the earth both human and natural , is really just an experiment of mixed truths and their perception being forced upon a naive population. it displays the perversions of the human race and its potential for destruction exclusively.
What i love about science is simple. science wants to be wrong. it really does. i want to be wrong more then i want to be right. i want to be able to explore forever the universe and learn it’s secrets. i don’t ever want to know everything. true science is never about answers, it is about greater questions.because true science is about the human race and its intimate communication with the universe. scientists let the universe tell us its story. religion is an ancient attempt at a single form of science , behaviorism , that was built upon second hand observation and had socially imposed mores enforced within it’s conclusion. it was never about discovery, it was about compliance. how can i say this? because, like i said, archeology is part of my science. basically the story is typical for any civilization. it revolves around trade. when we humans finally figured out how to bring water to the crops , we had finally solved a lot of basic problems. however, this was still during stone age and well, not everyone was gifted at making stone tools (for example). most fertile valleys or land was obviously becoming more populated either by campaigns or simply moving there. the demand for artisan and tradesmen became more stronger. so the answer was to make a central spot, where the tradesman and artisans would more or less live and dedicate their talents towards producing the tools and wares that people wanted. however not being able to tend to their own farms and keep up with the demand proved to be a problem. so it was incorporated that a donation soon to become tax when money became norm.since not everyone was game to this ideal two forms of enforcement came into fashion, the regional warlord who would represent later the legal standard and the religious leader who incorporated a form of socialized behavior control through fear of the unknown and loose manipulation of human behaviors both instinctual and social. ancient Egypt is an example of this concept going into extremes, where for instance they were intent on getting the best of what each area had to offer through trade and conquest. so dedicated to this ideal were they, that the Greeks , who had little fertile land had a trade of warriors. it really all comes down to that simple concept. this is the way it has been since then, through history , even in modern times, when a person investigates the source for most social unrest, the underlying cause always comes to a form of trade issue.
we created walls, which kept the wild animals outside our vision, reinforcing our sense of control of what we believed to be true. within the walls, we recreated the jungle and manifest a human perception of the jungle. to this day, we are constantly recreating the jungle of our minds into the present reality of our existence.believing it is universally true, because within our walls we can make it appear true. what i mean is, if you were to investigate the social norms of say the 1800′s and then the ones that exist now, no matter how different both in belief and perception, each in their respective age created a positive influence on the environment they existed in. the industrial revolution largely was a concern for most visionaries for this very reason, they for instance feared that we would lose touch with our natural selves. mary shelley herself was one such person. who wrote Frankenstein as a type of declaration against the advent of technology. she never described the monster being born from electricity and machines, she actually described the monster being born from alchemy and being born on a stormy night. the movies sadly left that out and wrongly depicted her true message. even Eisenhower in his goodbye speech warned about the control such technology would and most certainly has on us, when he declared that the military industrial complex had pretty much gained so much control, that we as a people had to do something about it. this fell onto deaf ears, just like mary shelleys similar type of warning. belief, faith and behavior as manipulated by the years of religious abuse of human behavior has had its impact. we stand at this moment, as a species, just starting to realize the extreme effect such careless behavior has had on the earth. not knowing what to do, not knowing who to believe.not knowing that we are seeing the outside of the vacuum or the inside , just beginning to recognize the shape.
when Rene Descartes had left his home , in a form of self imposed exile to the Swedish queen. he knew absolutely through word of his friend Galileo what would happen when he disclosed his world changing thesis. the scientific method was created as a way of discerning the truth. he knew what would happen with the church when he released it. so , he first used it to prove the most profound words of modern time cognito ergo sum or i think therefore i am. basically what it means is, he had worked out a premise that went like this. what if my god is really a devil and i have been misled all my life? how do i know who i am. he then proceeded to use his method of removing all plausible doubt, by investigating all possible elements he could think of that would play a part in perception of self. for example he stated that the senses are not indicative of self because senses lie, optical illusions can exist therefore he couldn’t trust exclusively the sense of sight. he even worked out dreams and instinct this way all the way down to one last common denominator, he realized that his thoughts were his own, that he, is the product of his thoughts. hence, i think therefore i am. then, he was fearful of prosecution of the church , so he quickly and not as effectively proved the existence of the christian god , using fallacy of circular reasoning and other lesser critical reasoning. he figured, that this would not get the church after him.released the thesis and the world was changed ever since.
from his dissertation, Darwin was able to work out the process of evolution,newton was able to work out gravity and practically every science had a real and substantial way of effectively existing in the universe of humanity. he gave humanity the ability to look at the universe and ask questions. to find truth, which can not be dissuaded unless a greater truth were uncovered or the opposing truth can be demonstrated.his gift, allowed us to finally question the universe and to finally listen to the universe openly. which is what we have been wanting all along. the church was threatened so much that it went and has been on a total disinformation campaign since. many people for instance don’t know that Darwin was as devote believer in his religion as his science. his private beliefs versus his incredible deciphering of the universal truth are in no way conflicting. he simply was in a state we humans used to be in. witnessing the universe and accepting it on its terms. our debt to Descartes, who facing the terrible affliction of pneumonia and his old age had felt so strongly about his gift to us, had exiled himself from his native country of birth and braved the cold winter nights freezing and living in a shack. so important that this brilliant mathematician, who also gave us the Cartesian map method, risked his life and prestige against the religious dogma, to give us the tool to question the universe and the means to decipher it’s answer. we owe everything to him, when it comes to modern thought and how we approach the world. now if only we can use it right.
