How well do you perceive?
Do you see things as they are, or as you want them to be?
Do you cast away false perceptions in light of how things are - no matter how uncomfortable it is? Or choose to self-delude yourself with the comfort of what you already accept?
Is maintaining your self-view and world-view more important than letting go of false perceptions conditioned into you?
We all have to decide what matters more to us in our lives. What matters to us can move us to act in certain ways. These are axioms that form how we view ourselves and the world.
New information needs to be analyzed when it comes in.
New information can provide the contrast to show the incorrect notions we have previously accepted, allowing us to change by letting go of what we once held onto as part of our identity. We often need to blast away some things that we think are who we are in order to understand more about ourselves and the world.
New information needs to be assessed with respect to reality that one can verify themselves. However, if we simply assess information with how well it conforms to our preconceptions, we may cast aside valid new information in favor of keeping our previous attachments.
Seeing things more clearly takes time.
Maybe one piece of information is not enough to have us change how we view the world, or ourselves. We might need more information to connect to reality in order to see how our previous conceptions do not stand up to the scrutiny of a reality being presented.
Learning is a life long process. Perception of reality improves as we gather more information that we can verify. Our cognitive filters get more refined, able to detect misinformation that would have previously been accepted in a more tacit uncritical manner.
Good luck to us all on our separate yet interconnected journeys in life!
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Nice post! Like it :)
Hi, that's very interesting. As I read your post I was wondering what difference God's existence makes. Is God necessary in the process of building or reshaping ones world view? Is it even possible to form a coherent worldview without the trancending God? Is man even able to take a neutral stand regarding God's existence or does he suppress the truth?
"God" is a fill-in-the-gaps of comprehension concept. Trying to make sense of things? Missing some info? Then here's the answer! "God" explains why this is this, or that is that! Don't need to figure out what is going on really, just believe whatever one wants and justify it through "God" as an answer-all to fill-the-gap in comprehension.
I'm familiar with this atheists standard notion. It is just an assertion. Even if we would be able to explain the whole universe it would not explain away God. Just because one can explain the whole car in terms of mechanics it doesn't follow that he has explained away Henry Ford. That's an error in reasoning and, as I believe, a display of the suppression of truth as I mentioned.
Indeed, God is the necessary foundation of all knowledge and explanations. Without him there is no basis for truth, knowledge, logic, morals or uniformity of nature. What is your ground for these without God, that is to say in a universe made up only of physical entities?