Many religions seem to imply absolutist ideas about 'God', Good and Evil, Heaven and Hell, Salvation, and so on.
A little proper thinking , however, reveals that such absolutist notions are untenable. Related to this is the fact that many followers of religions seem to think that their sacred writings (Bible, Qoran, etc.) are absolute truth. One simply has to compare religions with each other to see that many contradictory statements can be found in these diverse religions. That realization should be enough to dismiss any absolutist claim from the side of religion and its followers. There may be a bit of relative truth in religions, but that's all there will be, imo. Now, experience of inner worlds, that's something different (although still relative to context, level of development, and perhaps to the society of which one is a part). Study my free e-book on my site m_euser.tripod.com
and you will start to understand what I am talking about. Maybe there is One Truth, but there are many truths, as Gautama Buddha tells us. In other words, humans are limited in perception and understanding and can never claim to understand the whole Truth. Maybe little parts of it, called 'truth', relative to one's understanding, that's all what's possible.
Absolute good and evil don't exist, as far as esoterism teaches us. What is appropriate in one sphere of life can be utterly out of place in another situation or context. Relative evil does exist: it's like the clash of wills, especially acts and thoughts not in harmony with the situation.
All this has something to do with post-modern ideas, but not with the extreme forms of these as a total relativity of values means to deny the existence of levels of morality, etc., which has been proven to exist (Kohlberg). Also, total (absolute!) relativity annihilates post-modernism itself as is immediately obvious, because other philosophies would be as valuable as post-modern philosophy which surely is not what the extreme relativists have in mind. Total relativity simply is lousy thinking.
You know, there are gradations in everything: love, hate, evil, good, selfishness and selflessness, etc. All rather obvious, but necessary to bring to the forum for reminding people who lack nuance in mind and thought.
In this regard we need also remember that it is only relatively recent, since the beginning of the 20th century that Einstein's relativity-theory changed the notions of absolute time and space held in science at that time.
Imagine the confusion at that time. No absolute time? What is time anyway? Without going into too abstruse discussions we could speculate a bit about "the creation of time" brought about by photons interacting with matter. Events, as they are called in physics, change the world, bit by bit.
Is motion the outer cause of time-experience? Acceleration? Perhaps.
Is recurrence a manifestation of 'time'? Or the reverse? Cycles are very important in nature. Think of maintenance/renewal (a form of recurrence, it seems). Is recurrence a manifestation of a timeless pattern?
Quite possible. You see, 'time' may be different on the molecular/atomic/subatomic level than on the mental level. Psychological experience involves diverse patterns and faculties (sensori-motor,memory, history/context, interpretation, etc.). It is all worth a deeper investigation than philosophers and scientists have been attempting up to today.
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