What I’m becoming more convinced of over time is that there is no one “right” perspective. There is no objective fact out there. Even with things like the sun going around the earth, I only know what I’m told.
Gotta disagree with you here. There IS a right perspective, although at any one moment any given individual may not grasp it. But reality is real and everything else is interpretation. That’s what you might call a “perspective.” Anyone can have a “perspective,” and it will be more or less consonant with reality. In the above quoted passage, you immediately say that the “science makes sense to you,” but that doesn’t matter. What matters is that IN FACT the earth rotates around the sun. As someone aptly said, you are entitled to your own opinion, but not to your own facts.
Glad you moved away from dogmatism, but in my opinion you haven’t moved away far enough, otherwise you wouldn’t say that you have an “open-minded view of religion, even of God.” To be truly OPEN-minded, you would need to discern if there is any factual basis for your view. It’s not enough that you have the view, but that it be consonant with facts. True, some “perspectives” provide varying degrees of psychological comfort while reality is having its way with you, but that’s like saying that an anesthetic eliminates the fact of a wound.
When I finally ditched the claptrap of religion I did not feel better. I felt worse. I longed for the drug of belief in a better state of reality. I wrote a song, “Bone On Bone” that alluded to this bereft state. But there is no way to alter reality. Sure, you can change the way you perceive it. And if a certain “perspective” dulls the pain, then congratulations. But it is still a drug, a barrier between your perception and reality. And nothing makes this more clear than being conscious in an aging body.
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Mario, this blog is sad... (the whole format and everything -- something called Empty Space and a black screen.) Don't you believe in the spirit of good song, or innocent children, happiness, and love? You don't have to believe in a 'religion' to still believe in spirit. It's like you're dwelling on frustration, rather than FEELING the LOVE that makes everything alive. C'mon man. This scientific reality that you're trying to prove, or now think is the reality that you've woken up to, what exactly are you basing it on, other than discouragement, disillusion, abandonment, sadness, etc.? God is Love :-)
Good point about the blog design. So I've changed it to a pretty CS blue.
God is not love, but a comfy fiction. And love is a better substitute.
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