DixyCrat: Along those lines, I will agree that any set of beliefs that requires you accept internally inconsistent ideas is, itself, unstable. But I'd say that it's the individual reflecting on their interaction with a faith-base that leads to such.
M: I should probably just stay out of this because I have not much ability to understand what thinking people mean. I particularly don't get what 'an individual reflecting on their interaction with a faith-base' means.
DC: That is: Everything requires interpretation, when the individual is confronted with an something that is inconsistent when they internalize it they should move beyond that line of thinking.
M: This, while more specific, doesn't help me. I don't know why everything needs interpretation or why one would want to trust it or why somebody would want to internalize something inconsistent or how they could move beyond that.
I believe you are saying something you see that you think is important, but I am to stupid to know what it is. I am sorry.
DC: However, that individuals interpret things differently does not mean that the 'religion' is necessarily internally inconsistent.
M: I CAN see that just because a person says he's a Catholic doesn't mean that everything HE thinks is CATHOLIC about his thinking, is actually what MOST Catholics would say is Catholic, which raises the issue, of course, as to whether there really is anything TRUELY catholic other than what's in people's heads.
My resolution along these lines is that religion is a science, an experiential of the difference between conscious states and that the experimental evidence for the existence of God is the God conscious state, a condition of self extinction and ecstasy the experience of which removes all doubt and can be reached and verified under the guidance of those who have already gone down that path. The existence of such a path and the ideas associated with it, would be what could be called a Secret. That is to say there is a truth whose immediate unlikelihood is concealed by so many unconscious assumptions that it is invisible in the glare.
It's existence, I would offer, is or can be suspected because of longing, a deep sense of idealism and the sure sense that something is radically wrong. Perhaps you could say it is the question of what the Matrix is that drives you and will not let you rest. The goal, I would say is not to be THE ONE, but to be AT ONE. It is there that the PROGRAM goes down and the bullets fall from the air.
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