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Mach777 (mach777@eurosport.com) wrote:
>> I cannot prove the non existence of something. It is possible that
>> these things exist, and that either I did not have the appropriate
>> experiences, or that I don't have the appropriate abilities.
>>
>> But is it not crazy to believe in things we cannot experience or
>> perceive?
Adore would say yes.
If something can not affect you in any way, then you can not
learn anything about it with certainty.
Certainty comes from experience, because the only certainty there
is, IS experience.
Consciousness-of, experience-of, perception-of IS certainty-of.
From our experiences ('of the world') we then interpret what the
world must be like. We see space, so we think there is space. We
experience out-there-ness, so we assume there is out-there-ness.
We see other beings, so we assume there are other beings.
What is certain is the experience, but in the end experience is
only a symbol for an alleged referent in the external world. The
experience might be considered to be 'evidence' for the external
referent, but there are other models.
It's like looking at a TV set and concluding that because you see
a car on the screen there must be a car somewhere out there.
Adore says that ALL 'belief' is a sin against certainty.
Beings don't need to believe things, they need to confront the
unknown. The effort to escape the 50/50 mark on many subjects leads
them to premature conclusions and convictions just to cover their fear
of not knowing.
Adore says that each being needs to find the perfect certainties
of his life, ones that can not be wrong, I AM and I CARE, and use them
as a standard against which to compare all his other beliefs.
Everything that is not certain then becomes unknown. It is ok to
assign a probability to an unknown, a 'bet' in Adore's terminology,
especially if one has to make a decision or act upon them, but to then
upgrade them to 'beliefs' becomes an error, unless the word belief is
defined to mean merely something that one considers more than 50/50
likely.
Your average meatball is inverted.
He is certain he can't be certain of anything, he doubts that he
doubts, and yet he strongly 'believes' in all kinds of things that one
can easily prove one CAN'T be certain of, like the existence of the
alleged physical universe beyond our virtual experience of it in our
consciousness, or that he is mortal etc.
The process of clearing this out integrity then is to bring the
pc back into recognition of actual perfect certainties, then the
reevaluation of all beliefs against the standards of perfect certainty
until they fall into their probabilistic bucket or 'bet' as it were.
The more false certainties are cleared out of the way, (i.e those
things the pc *SAYS* he is certain of but which in fact are wrong and
which in fact he therefore CAN'T be certain of them if he would just
look), the more the mind is still and free from these false ideas and
can once again be open to what knowable actualities might remain.
After the false certainties are cleared out, the being usually
finds himself sitting on the 50/50 fence on most of the major
questions of his life, feeling the wind of living fear blowing through
him for the first time on a continuous basis. Then with a mind that
is no longer asserting inanities into the wind to turn it off, it is
free again to see what might appear.
Homer
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