Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Sat Sep 14, 2024 4:54 am
Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 12:37 pmThe human being, as a perceiving instrument, and as a being ensconced within mutability and perceptual uncertainty, will always and cannot do other than guess, or concoct pictures of all that is meant by “metaphysical reality”.
It seems to me that you make the mistake of assuming, and believing, that the interpretive apparatus, the act of interpretation, is what determines what is true. This fits with our modern outlook. But an alternative is the view, the supposition if you will, that metaphysical (or supernatural) truth exists independently of the perceiving instrument, and is filtered by that mutable being; or embellished; or dressed-up through all the influences you have named: the politics of power
et cetera.
The only thing any of us knows for sure is that the perceiving (or guessing, or concocting) instrument exists.
When 'you' here say and write, 'any of us', are you meaning that there is more than 'one', for sure and absolutely, or just that 'the One' is perceiving, (guessing, or concocting), that there is more than just 'this One'?
Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Sat Sep 14, 2024 4:54 am
The least far-fetched supposition, then—
if "we" suppose there's anything beyond "ourselves"
at all—, is that only such mutable beings exist.
When 'you' put an 's' at the of 'ourselve' was this intended to be plural because there is definitely more than 'one'? Or, did 'you' just use 'that word' out of habit?
Also, was an 's' put at the end of 'being' because there is, irrefutably, more than 'one'? Or, again, was this just done 'out of habit', for one reason anyway?
Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Sat Sep 14, 2024 4:54 am
What we filter, or embellish, or dress up, then, is only our fellow mutable beings.
So, if the, absolutely, only thing that can be 'known', for sure, is that only 'the one', perceiving, (guessing, or concocting) instrument exists, then any perception of 'others' could just be a False and/or Wrong perception, (guess, or concoction), obviously.
So, if the 'only thing' that can be 'known', for sure, is that 'I', a perceiving, guessing, or concocting 'instrument' exists, then the actual irrefutable Truth is that absolutely any claim at all of or about 'others' could all well be just a/nother made up concoction and guess, which is providing a False and Wrong perception, to the One and only One, 'I'.