Maybe, ‘God, the father, son and Holy Ghost’ equates
to “the experiment, its outcomes and the underlying ‘direction that is’.” Put
simply the experiment plays about, things happen that are possible. Nothing
impossible ever happens. That maybe obvious but it’s important to realise we
are restrained in the domain of the possible, which is quite small compared
with all the things that are impossible. The ‘direction that is’ also defines
what, within the possible, will survive. Things either flourish or fall back
into the body of substance that fuels the ongoing experiment. So the ‘direction
that is’ holds two levels of truth, 1/ what’s possible, and 2/ what follows
this ‘direction that is.’ If it’s impossible it’s obviously not true, and if it
isn’t in the ‘direction that is’ it won’t survive long enough to become true
either. These two levels of truth are way above our daily debates on truth. In
fact it’s likely we humans are unique in our capacity to conceive of untruths
and that we might gain some long-term advantage from them. Not just conscious
lies but beliefs, theories, manipulations and assertions that constitute the majority
of our thinking even the hypothesis of self. So in this ‘post-truth’ age we’re
supposedly entering what if anything will survive? When the natural world that
has stood the test of time and proved itself to be ‘true’ we are imposing our
untruths in chemicals and pollution, spin, politics, wars and now fake news
believing them to be our successes. Only when we begin to perceive, think, act
and speak with true honesty and see no advantage in living otherwise will we
avoid oblivion. This isn’t religion, it’s survival.
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