07-23-2016, 12:45 PM
(07-23-2016, 08:08 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(07-23-2016, 02:25 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:(07-23-2016, 01:56 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: Seems like we've all thought deeply, long and profoundly before we found our dogmas.
Not necessary to hold on to your discoveries as dogmas. They just are there, unless and until more discoveries are made.
It just seems that each thinks their own world view well thought out while perceiving the other guy's as dogma. We've lived different lives, been taught different things, seen different things and arrived in different places. To me values clash is to be expected. It's just (expletive deleted) that so few can respect ideas that are incompatible with their own.
That respect can only really come in some distant time, perhaps only during an Awakening, when everyone is always willing to question and to learn. Respect might just mean tolerance, as in, "oh well, we have different worldviews; so we can settle for peaceful co-existence." That does not mean real respect, which only happens when we understand the other point of view, which means we are willing to learn it and even adopt it as part of our own. All worldviews can be embraced, not just tolerated, when we discover the core truth in them that may be hidden beneath the public doctrines meant to stifle and control the masses. At their core, beneath the surface, all worldviews have their place.
Even free market, trickle-down economics has its place, in balance with socialism. Even the traditional God has its place, since the Supreme Being must be personal too. Mysticism, central in my opinion, has its place within us all, because it is our most intimate experience. Empiricism has its place, because we make claims about and desire to make use of what we see. Reason, and feeling, depend on each other even though they are opposites.