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Originally posted by :::OshnSoul:::
Right. I agree with you as well, except for the "outside" part. All knowingness, all wisdom, all answers lie within each and every one of us.
But as far as our thoughts and perception- that which you beleive to be true IS true to you. That's your Truth. It's just simply becomes our reality.
I like the flow of this thread and the reactions, becuase you all are seeing it on 2 levels- personal/individual and the larger picture, as well.
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Is it really possible that everything we know is really just an aspect of some inner-knowledge? I think the vast majority of information, ideas, and theories that we have are based on our interaction with our environment. Our understandings are widely influenced by the outside world. Knowledge is a construct, mutually created and maintained by society.
If you shut yourself off to the idea that your beliefs are influenced and/or manufactured by what you've been exposed to (externally), and that there is a possibility that your beliefs have ingenuine parts or your ideas that aren't fully thought out, then "Truth" becomes a subject of parallactic indifference. I am open to thinking that my ideas aren't truly my own. I am open to finding out that I'm wrong. My truths are tenuous at best existing in this post-modern world; existing in defiance to the absurdity of existence.