…it may be the thing that binds our universe together and creates the necessary balance and harmony required for our very existence. Ha ha ha…at least in so much that it keeps us from going insane with all the opposing truths of our world and lives; the seemingly endless injustices on our planet; and the very fragility and chance that is human life in the Milky Way. It’s not much of a leap of faith to marry cognitive perspective (our point of view) with psychological perspective (the best use of knowledge) with visual perspective (how objects appear in the eye) and come to the realization that “truth” is at best not absolute…oft subject to the vantage point of the believer. Friedrich Nietzsche would suggest that it is our needs that interpret the world, and that individuals bring their personal biases, dispositions, presuppositions, temperaments and life experiences to every act of knowing! This is the very reason I love perspective – so naive we can be and in the same instance self determined…with it comes purpose and passion and a good nights sleep. Therein lies the rub though right? In choosing to ‘know this or that’ the very act rejects other knowledge…embraces denial. That’s the slippery slope…on one end of this paradigm wars and ethnic cleansing start this way and at the other, people save lives and change the world. So what’s real? What’s the truth? I really don’t know and on many levels not sure that I really care. For me it’s the journey itself through this kaleidoscope of life that matters…I am not looking for truth…from my perspective, my truth finds me every day and I wouldn’t have it any other way, lol.
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Lawrence Lewis
“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.” ― John Lubbock
About Lawrence Lewis
I do a number of things professionally...but most of all and the true purpose of what I do through "my work" is to provide for my family, be a good husband and great father, and try to make a difference as a world citizen...I guess it's not much more complicated than that 🙂