Beautiful exploration and exposition. I agree that we have an inner compass. But, I perceive (as I know you do, too) that a person cam become so suppressed, traumatized (in the real sense of the word), and distorted, that those signals are crossed or inaudible. Because they are *still there*, even in people who behave amorally or immorally, we see increasingly gross distortions in those people over time. Jordan Peterson says, you never get away with anything. I think he’s right. I look at the Clintons, becoming grotesque caricatures of their hideous impulses, spinning into irrelevance with either dissipation or shrill hysteria, and it seems to me a perfect illustration of what happens when a person takes a sledgehammer of avarice to their compass on the anvil of ambition, shattering it beyond recognition, and yet the magnet still knows true north.
Well said. Yes, there are definitely those among us who have so thoroughly empretzeled themselves that they will probably never contact their compass in this life. I think we never get away with anything with ourselves. Even though these high-distortion people act as if, and probably believe, that they are doing what's best in their own distorted view, they punish themselves in other subtle ways. Like never allowing themselves to experience love, because they ensure they can't be trusted and refuse to give love out.
Really like your ruminations. Good deep stuff. Would it work to say, instead of God=The Good, God=The One and The One = the unity of the Good, the True, and the Beautiful?
Yeah, I think those equations also check out. One thing that's for sure about the Divine is that there can be many ways of correctly describing it but none of them will be anywhere near complete.
Beautiful exploration and exposition. I agree that we have an inner compass. But, I perceive (as I know you do, too) that a person cam become so suppressed, traumatized (in the real sense of the word), and distorted, that those signals are crossed or inaudible. Because they are *still there*, even in people who behave amorally or immorally, we see increasingly gross distortions in those people over time. Jordan Peterson says, you never get away with anything. I think he’s right. I look at the Clintons, becoming grotesque caricatures of their hideous impulses, spinning into irrelevance with either dissipation or shrill hysteria, and it seems to me a perfect illustration of what happens when a person takes a sledgehammer of avarice to their compass on the anvil of ambition, shattering it beyond recognition, and yet the magnet still knows true north.
Well said. Yes, there are definitely those among us who have so thoroughly empretzeled themselves that they will probably never contact their compass in this life. I think we never get away with anything with ourselves. Even though these high-distortion people act as if, and probably believe, that they are doing what's best in their own distorted view, they punish themselves in other subtle ways. Like never allowing themselves to experience love, because they ensure they can't be trusted and refuse to give love out.
Really like your ruminations. Good deep stuff. Would it work to say, instead of God=The Good, God=The One and The One = the unity of the Good, the True, and the Beautiful?
Yeah, I think those equations also check out. One thing that's for sure about the Divine is that there can be many ways of correctly describing it but none of them will be anywhere near complete.