Belief, Knowledge, Theory
By way of explanation, observers aren’t “one with the world” because the world isn’t a single thing, nor are we the sum of certain particles that comprise our bodies.
Life consists of what the world perceives itself as, but perceptions aren’t the same for everyone, nor necessarily consistent throughout a lifetime.
Through generations, perceptions will alter and shift, new experiences will bring forth new ideas; As centuries pass, the most paramount developments of life are cemented in time — in tradition — where temporal dynamics are chronicled to become history.
Everything is part of a historical process on all levels.
All changes within our world descend from cosmic progression. Yet as reality unfolds in absolute order, observers are subjected to locality. This means that emergent characteristics, like time itself, are merely elements of conscious experience.
To us, change seems to always grow larger and larger, spreading beyond individuals to encompass societies, whole civilizations: their ideas, knowledge, beliefs, entire realities perhaps.
As such, history becomes an object in-and-of itself, existing among and through its own consciousness.
Theories are created by those who rely on belief to formulate certain ideas….
Theories occur within frameworks, often said to be ‘systems of belief that attempt to seek a deep systemic understanding of things — things like life, forces, dimensions, god — in order to generate meaning’.
All theories, depending on historical circumstances, have the potential to transform into powerful doctrines. They exist within a tautologically enclosed system, regardless of outside discrepancies and contradictions. The reality, however, is that no particular belief in a theory is necessarily right or wrong unless the validity of another belief determines whether or not it will affect the validity of the current theory.
That is, a theory can only be determined right or wrong in relation to a domain which exists in the minds of believers.
There’s a common debate about whether there’s a difference between true and false beliefs at all, as all beliefs are essentially the same.
Despite everything being entangled, there is no absolute truth, no one belief which summarizes reality.
Some theories are used as tools for science or metaphysics, and others have been put to use in arcane rituals or political rhetoric. Some may exist as purely abstract, while others are intellectually applied to societies and individuals.
It might seem strange to connect theory to rune magic, for example, but many things in the world have the same basic kind of ideological foundations.
There have always been sects, religions, and systems of belief that followed some sort of moral code or ideal.
In fact, there aren’t set rules for knowing when something is or isn’t right based on an isolated experience of it alone. We can only ever roughly tell the difference between good and bad ideas, though the difference is subtle enough that we don’t notice immediately: the exact same relativity applies to knowledge.
What we take as information isn’t necessarily the “right” thing to learn.
What we accept as fact is sometimes the “wrong” thing to believe.
What we think about is often just how we’re reacting to our inner-selves.
Any form of theoretical belief — from the simplest to the most complicated — should never be accepted as absolute truth.
Theories are merely a means by which we can explain or make sense of something with which we’re fundamentally at odds.
Knowledge, however, is proof which we’re relying on as truth for as long as it remains observable. Yet, if we can prove that knowledge is false, we must also prove that it includes the wrong belief to hold. This is because, unlike knowledge, belief isn’t attached to what we can sense. This means it should logically follow that any belief reliant on its own rationality to exist shouldn’t be held, and that the opposite should always be true. Though, this conception of opposition is yet another illusion.
Something tautologically unprovable doesn’t automatically prove it to be false or its antithesis true.
Since all knowledge is ultimately relative, any and all information we can ascertain is “valid”, but also incorrect on a scale we aren’t yet aware of. Therefore all truth is relative as well, despite being the most important component of reality.
In the end, it’s crucial to keep our minds open at all times: This allows us to look at experiences purely and authentically, and to obtain information from the world in a meaningful way.
Focusing on obtaining meaning from experiences doesn’t mean we ought to ignore the importance of other things; but if we don’t take care of distractions and contradictions, our minds will start wandering and contorting; allowing ideas that aren’t our own to invade our brain to destroy our ability to form undivided beliefs and establish self-knowledge.
