symbols wrote:Wakanyugi wrote:Muriel wrote:tycho wrote:Muriel wrote:
Back then to the old question: absoluteness or relativity of morals.
Clash!
Keanu Reeves's Matrix in real life!
The 'clash' between relativity and absoluteness has always been there. It's hard wired to life.
Or would you say that the new born for example doesn't experience this conflict? Yet maturity and growth is about balancing the conflict.
Hence control is an illusion. So is oneness.
All existence is illusion. You are illusion and so am I. Of course some illusions are given more importannce than others. Methinks it is time we brought the illusion of separation down a notch or two.
If existence is illusion,how can you make conclusions based on that illusion? Why not?
In this reality, illusion is all we have to work with.
Take a look at the wall in front of you. Your senses tell you that it is solid. Extend your senses by using, say, an X-ray machine or a particle accelerator. Suddenly the wall is not solid any more. Does that stop you from trusting the capacity of the house to shelter you from the elements?
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." (Niels Bohr)