Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Aware of Instantaneous Fragments

There are three elements of the "Aware, Away, Awry" approach that are understood necessarily to eliminate all of the myriad ideas of "salvation economy."  The "Aware" aspect of our analysis describes the instantaneous fragments of our existence in which we are confronted by phenomena before we can assess (or try to assess) them.

Of course, the phrase "instantaneous fragments" might be picked apart as internally inconsistent--does not "instantaneous" imply "involving no time," thereby implying also no dimension as a "fragment"?  Of course--also--this is silly.  The fact that our imperfect capabilities of perception can admit of no exposure to anything involving "no time" is in itself merely a fact contributing to the prudent assessment of our capabilities overall.  If our inability to assess dimensionality in its infinites--either absolutely small or absolutely great--disqualifies us from discussion of any absolutes, then the "God" of any religious topic is reduced by necessity to merely some effusively-described idol.

Yet we become aware of things suddenly.  We come to understand those things in time (and in the space that is the context of our points of reference.)  Merest prudence tell us that each succeeding step in our analyses is prone to error, and the cumulative effect is most likely to be an increase in error.  To congratulate ourselves for having "worked around" what we imagine is a complete tour of all relevant aspects of a belief system (such as Christianity) is to delude ourselves into thinking that a pure distillation of reason has allowed us to nestle into the comfort of our version of that belief system's premises.  (One need merely taste of the idiotic apologetics for Adam and Eve's expulsion in conservative Christian children's books.)

Next we will look at the "Away" aspect.

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