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Originally posted by wilbjammin
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.
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True. I hear ya.
Yes, we are influenced by the external, but how we decide who we are through those experiences defines us- thus, being Our Own Truth. But we cannot do anything with out the will of choosing to do it. The human experience requires that which isn't
you in order to define
who you are. Gotta have those polarities, or else how would we compare and decide, define and seperate? To learn by our choices? My point is, there is the iternal that is influenced by the external, although not all of the external is what defines you, you internally are able to make conscious notes and choices and definitions of yourself. We are the tool of experience, and the external events/experiences do resonate internally and will then bounce back out (reflecting) externally. They feed off of each other so that we can experience every choice there is to make in order to eventually realizing who we are. Some people don't get that far, others do. The external, then, is
our tool. It's a matter of how we use that tool, with their being so many different choices we can make.