Saturday, February 28, 2015

The Infinite


Constructs were developed to help us cope with the unfathomable concept of the infinite.  We develop the constructs of society, rules, religion, science, math etc.  It allows us to put our lives into nice boxes that limits our view to what we can comprehend. 
When we break the box we run the danger of insanity for we can’t really comprehend what we see.  But if we but peek out we see that the world around us is built on false rules. 
It can be difficult to live in a world once we stop limiting ourselves.  We see that all thought is just that and existence is nothing more but a brief frame in time in a movie that runs so fast the images cannot be seen. 
The infinite is beyond our understanding and yet throwing away the constraints that hide it creates a new reality in which existence is but a bit of the infinite.  Infinite is timeless yet we insist on living in time.  Infinite is incomprehensible yet we continue to pretend we can know it.  We define and construct hiding the truth from ourselves.

1 comment:

John Powell said...

I mostly agree. But I'm not sure it's fair to say that everything is built on false rules. I think the constructs we build are limiting, and are, at best, incomplete. But to declare them all false doesn't feel right.

Our best chance at understanding the infinite to combine our individual understandings and experiences - and continually modify our own constructs.

Constructs themselves aren't necessarily bad, unless we've decided that we have arrived and no longer need to re-evaluate them. Our truths should be held lightly, with open hands.