We cannot discern a First Mover of creation, therefore we cannot possibly judge those properties, but we can be certain that creation and its movement exist.
Value exists, we understand that we have needs and asperations, and some things and situations are better than others, good and bad definitely exist from any discernible point of view. Wants and needs, and conversely, dangers and revulsions, are genuine drivers of Human behavior. We cannot deny good’s existence, just as we can’t deny there are things that are bad, even if some of these truths are emergent from, and therefore specific to, an individual’s perspective.
So wouldn’t it be nonsense to believe that everything is equal and that all value hierarchies are false or irrelevant? This sort of subjective denial of subjectivity Itself is a lot like an outright denial of the Holy Spirit, very difficult to rationalize or overcome. Yet this is often the default position of our institutions, as if value must always be enumerated from scratch.
A denial of all hierarchy is a denial of the potential for, or existence of, goodness itself. Isn’t the pursuit of things that are judged to be good closely associated with freedom and happiness?
Seems reasonable to proclaim that good does in fact exist, and it is generally better than bad.
But what is good from one person’s perspective isn’t necessarily what’s good from another’s. No single human perspective can identify or establish absolute good except as faith in the Higher Power (G-d, the super-set of goodness)
What about truth? Can we discern any sort of universal truth?
I think, therefore I am and I wish to survive, this is the natural configuration of my biological Being that I unapologetically accept as elementally true. By saying ‘I am’ in this way, I’m asserting the only rational position I can about myself, that I exist and that my body and its wellbeing are critically important to me.
None of us can survive on our own outside of the rich natural environment we were born into, this is universally true about all of Life, and it’s certainly true with regards to our Human condition.
Within this biological reality we rely on each other for most of our needs.
We are a social Beings, almost everything we know comes from the whole of Humanity and our ability to communicate with and learn from each other. You and I would not exist in any meaningful form without the Human collective, and we would not be able to survive or express ourselves further without our collectively developed toolset and the existing structures of Human society.
The Highest Truth may be impossible to label or enumerate, but this isn’t proof of non-existence, in fact quite the opposite. This Truth is best understood as the undefinable Godhead of all existence and should be loved and respected as just that. The practical application of this worldview is loving respect for everything that doesn’t cause harm or separate anyone from this self-referential Truth.
Life is precious, all Biology is one, all species are symbiont with the each other and the planet we live on. Biology is the source of all known or identifiable consciousness and all known or identifiable reality. The universe/consciousness/reality is literally and factually biocentric at the very crux of falsifiability, at least from our current perspective, and that is in fact the only perspective we have. We Humans, both as a species and as individuals, are inextricable from our environment, a perspective that sees the entire planet as an extension of our bodies is a valid one. We cannot separate ourselves from our environment and survive either as individuals or as a species. We cannot make a rational case that we ever have or ever will be separate from the same. The world we live on is a vital part of our collective body, and that collective body includes Humanity itself as it exists with an undeniable but limited measure of dominion over the Biology and physical reality we were borne into.
All sentience shares one conscious reality. Every individual Being is a facet of the whole of conscious existence. No idea can exist in a vacuum, the propagation of ideas requires communication between multiple perspectives. Structure, scientific falsifiability and existence itself all require an Observer. Identity requires a relationship or juxtaposition with other identity. An individual mind apart from any other is un-provable, even to itself.
As the Human race evolves and advances through the Logos/shared ideation/technology, an emergent (or re-emergent) perspective that sees all of Humanity as one Being becomes more valid. Language and culture are merging and our world is coalescing in a way that is superior to the idea of entropy in a physical system. Our collective consciousness is, therefore We are.
We as Humans arise from biology but are blessed with a most precious gift, the Logos, a universe of shareable ideation that sets Humans apart from the rest of knowable Being and grants us vital but measured dominion over Nature.
We’re all meant to be Children of Our Creator. We are all blessed with a degree of Divine Judgement.
Being honest with yourself is the same as being honest with G-d, Loving G-d requires Loving yourself and loving your neighbor, all three are functionally the same action. Blind faith in the Highest Power serves as a bridge when this truth becomes hard for us to see.
No individual Human is G-d, but all of creation, and all Being, is a part of G-d.
The potential for Divine Humanity emerges from biology through the Logos.
Every Human is a mirror of every other, actually in the physical world, and idealistically through/within the Logos.
Humanity = The Body of Christ, (a Rose by any other name) = Those who choose to Love G-d with all their heart including the Love of other Humans that worldview engenders and demands.
Perfection is an idea that is not achievable in a dynamic system. Perfection requires stasis, action always requires potential difference. Potential difference precludes perfection. Nothing physical is perfect.
The idea of a perfect G-d is analogous to the idea of an unknowable super-set or infinite mathematical sequence. If something identifiable is considered perfect it must necessarily be finished or in its final form, any future action or motion requires difference to initiate and therefore precludes perfection, at least in the moment that action is taking place.
Perfect G-d is necessarily a timeless G-d of infinite superposition, with all potentiality already and not yet realized.
Within the Logos, perfection exists as an idealization like an angel, a symbol or messenger, even a name of G-d.
You as an individual created Being have freewill within the Logos and must choose a Divine and Loving path.
Loving other people as yourself is the same as Loving G-d and the same as Loving yourself. This triad forms the Truth of Love.
You cannot Love G-d without Loving yourself, and you cannot Love yourself without Loving the rest of Humanity/The Body of Christ/The Universal Church.
Love as a conscious waveform, Subjectivity in its most functional state. Factuality as a particle or point in spacetime, objectivity as observed by Subjectivity.
Subjectivity like a carrier wave that both is and ever wants to be, always seeking joy through eternal novelty.
Omnipresent FOMO agency playing every role in Love’s infinite story.
Love as the fundamental attractor universally adored and scarcely understood, that which is fact is always past, Love is always Now, the future is evermore.
Love is Subjectivity looking past uncomfortable parts of factuality and willfully engendering idealized truth. From our position as created Beings this is the formula for Divinity.
Love as Divinity... no point at which Love has been identified, no measure with which Love has been quantified, can ever be stood upon as the whole of the Truth of Love... these are only attempts to tell a story of Love's past.
Love is constant living potential for greater good.
Love as a peak of Life in these respects, always blossoming, always grateful, yet never satisfied.
Love is the anticipation of Our better Self unfolding forever.