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I am forever pondering the nature of reality, the subjective nature of reality, the way our perceptions tend to influence our perspective. Facts can be stubborn things and yet “facts” are not necessarily “truth,” because facts must pass through our filters of prejudice, bias, and experience. Most of us tend to begin with facts…and than leap to conclusions, with little or no analysis at all. It is like leaping from point A to point X and than wondering why we got the answer to the equation so wrong.
The shortest distance between two points is not….let’s just by pass all the icky stuff and claim to have all the answers. Well, that actually is the shortest route, as in intellectually short and somewhat emotionally lazy.
Scripture verifies this problem with human nature, this limitation on our ability to perceive facts accurately. We are subjective creatures, receiving data and forming conclusions and our conclusions are not always rooted in truth. Our eyes can deceive us, as can our brains and our hearts. I like to point out, “the heart is wicked above all else,who can know it,” but conversely, “lean not into your own understanding,” because our brains aren’t much better. Doomed I tell ya, we are doomed…..if we are trying to seek the Truth under our own steam.
Scripture speaks to us of the need to have two or more witnesses when accusing someone of a crime. Our own modern legal system revolves around that same idea, one person’s perception is not enough, there must be some corroborating evidence before we hang someone out to dry. That is becasue perception is not always an accurate representation of the facts. Scripture also speaks of how “if two or more are gathered in my name,” we have agreement,we have a quorum of sorts. The bible understands the nature of people so well, certainly better than we understand our own selves.
Men and women can be a bit differant here sometimes, and heck, that is a rather delightful thing, one of life’s great pleasures, but men do have a tendancy to focus in on their prey, to zero in on their own reason, a more black and white perception of the facts. They can be less inclined to see the paradoxes within our perceptons of reality. It is not an absolute, there are some variations and individuality at play, but in general a whole lot of men actually pride themselves on their ability to say, “just the facts Ma’am,” as if the facts are always cut and dry, easily determined and so the conclusion must be easily determined too, and the solution therefore rather obvious to anyone with half a brain. Like the moon landing was obviously a grand conspiracy…..
All in good fun here, but since I am revealing deep seated secrets about men, in the name of fairness I must reveal secrets about women, as in “good grief girl, you are floating so far out in the stratosphere of feeling and emotions, past experiences and personal prejudices, I cannot even discern the facts in what you are saying anymore!” What is truth? Well, let me just put a pancake on my rabbit here and we’ll get to the bottom of this…
Of course, the world is far more diverse than simply men and women, nor can it be accurately portrayed by these extreme examples of some potential gender differences. There are a myriad of other factors at play too, culture, biases, prejudices, personal experiences. But my point is, “most of us tend to begin with facts…and than leap to conclusions, with little or no analysis at all.” That condition has become absolutely epidemic within our culture. We have become like a herd of reactionaries, bouncing from one offense to the next, as if we possess the truth due to our vastly superior reasoning skills. It’s the rest of the world that is stupid.
Don’t do that, it’s foolish and it leads one to false conclusions about the “facts,” as is easily demonstrated by those on the internet who have invested themselves in both the idea that the moon landing was fake and in and odd twist, foolish notions around white nationalism.
Vincent S Artale Jr said:
Reblogged this on Talmidimblogging.
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insanitybytes22 said:
Thank you for the reblog. It’s good to see you out and about too!
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Vincent S Artale Jr said:
You’re very welcome and thanks 😎
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LittleFish said:
I think you and I would get along. We seem to share the same brain. I am just starting on here, and yours is the first blog I liked and read. I am still trying to figure everything out. From one unique, outspoken, Christian, submissive to her husband, ridiculed woman to another. Cheers to being set apart for Christ. It is a narrow path.
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insanitybytes22 said:
Thank you for your kind words and welcome to the blogging world. Pleased to meet you.
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patrickhawthorne01 said:
IB…I have a woman co-worker friend who has learned that when she comes to me with a story to first ask, “Do you want the short version or my version?” I’m fortunate to have married a non-drama loving wife who gets to her point quickly.
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insanitybytes22 said:
Ha! Yes, sometimes it is a good thing to be able to cut to the chase. I remember a car trip once and I was chatting away to help keep my husband awake when he finally said, “could you stop talking, your voice always just makes me feel so sleepy.” I wanted to be mad, but it was just too darn funny. 🙂
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Jim Lantern said:
My perspective: We have the ability to use computers to create virtual reality, in which we create characters, avatars, who can be killed, while we live on unharmed in the so-called real world. What if the physical universe is the virtual reality for spiritual beings living in the spiritual universe on spiritual worlds similar to planets? We are their avatars for them to function in physical form while in the physical universe. Here, they can be killed in physical form, while living on unharmed in their spiritual form. We are them in physical form. They are us. The physical body is like a car, and the soul is the driver. So each of us are just using our physical bodies for transportation while visiting this planet. However bizarre, this is a possible explanation that could answer some questions about life, where we came from, the creation of the earth and physical universe. It is with some humor that I consider maybe God really did create the heavens and earth in only six days, and did so with his personal desktop computer! Then imagine trillions of other spiritual beings each creating trillions of physical realities – trillions of physical universes! A variation of “Intelligent Design” – the theory that life and the universe cannot have come into existence by chance – that it was designed and created by one or more intelligent entities.
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insanitybytes22 said:
LOL! Yes! I love the way you think. God probably is much like a master computer programmer and we here in the physical world are simply the avatars of our spiritual selves. Makes sense to me 🙂
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Jim Lantern said:
There’s also the “Men In Black” [1 and 2] perspectives… ending from 1 https://youtu.be/QTOBxlFjgc0 to scene in 2 https://youtu.be/GJLeBM6-AaM leading to ending of 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL3SGR85ymY
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Pastor Randy said:
On target, hit the bulls eye, spot on–great reflection and analysis! Did I say I loved it?
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insanitybytes22 said:
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it. Your encouragement is much appreciated.
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Paul said:
well said IB
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