What I find amazing is that having been what I feel is a total outsider from the human race, and seeing things that no one else seems to see, I find such parallels in how I think, and how you also do. This has given me great optimism over the years of reading your posts. I'm not just some oddball who thinks that what everyone is doing is crazy, and maybe it's just me. It's not me, and the planet also disagrees with what is happening. I also see miracles. I've had things happen in my life that went against every ounce of energy I could muster. And somehow I ended up avoiding nightmares that could have ruined my life.
Through everything, there is one thing I have always felt strongly about. And that is, 'I don't know'. I do not know how things work. I do not know the whole truth about anything. I've experienced miracles, and yet I don't know. I see and interact with nature, and yet it's a mystery. I believe in a god, but I can't be sure. So I say I don't know. It's almost comical since it's the opposite of a definitive answer. I have spent much of my life in not knowing. I feel that when someone says they know something, they haven't thought it through.
I'm not sure this is even on topic, but it's what came to mind as I read your post. But it is on topic in this sense: it does have something to do with knowing. Who knows anything? We have new ways of looking at molecules now. We have good reason to believe gravity is a wave. We know some general things. But when it comes to really knowing the whole truth, no one knows. And as we keep looking closer and closer, the whole truth seems to be moving away at the same rate. What's electricity? What's magnetism? And even when gravitational waves are a known fact, what is gravity? We still won't know, even if we know how it works.
So if no one really knows, then how can we be at odds with each other? My ego wants to be certain. Then it will be righteous. We draw conclusions, and if we're smart, they can be accurate to the point of perfection. Yet there is a conclusion that is drawn which leads one to believe they know the whole truth. I believe this is at the heart of the world's problems. Wars are started and fought over people who believe they know the truth. I've always thought that most disagreements have misunderstanding and false knowing at their heart. We believe that living a life of luxury with the help of petroleum is worth invading another country over. For some of us it is easy to see that there is a bigger truth which includes love of another human being, which overrides the desire for oil, and money.
On the other hand, I do feel that I know the results of a Sanders vision versus the other candidates' visions. I can clearly see a better future with one versus the others. So how do we work with one another, if we see different truths. I believe there are truths. We seem to have a blindness to the complete truth, and are only capable of seeing partial truths. Yet some truths are better than others.
I'm not sure this is much help in this subject. It's just my thoughts.
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