In today's political climate, there is a great divide between some Conservatives and some Liberals, that have played out here on Gather, and everywhere else, with a lot of conflict over being right and/or wrong, where one side accuses, and the other reacts in defense ... some just call that "cognitive bias" ... others see it as bigotry ... I am not sure, maybe I will have to Google the terms.
The one thing that stands out the most, is the "polarization" ... and I believe that is the result of unfair judgment where mere discernment would be more than sufficient.
When one person decides they are right and another is wrong, that is but a discernment, a personal subjective decision ... until it is acted out and affects the other person, the one considered wrong, in a negative way, such as a condemnation declaration ... that being an "expressed" judgment and a de facto "sentencing" ...
There would be no reaction by the second party, a natural defense, if they did not reject the initial judgment of the first party, so it comes down to action followed by reaction, cause and effect ... sometimes ad-infinitum.
Too many people feel they have the only truth on things, then, when another does not fit their example of what truth should be, the other is criticized, maybe even considered or called untruthful ...
There is only ONE TRUTH that could be considered Absolute, and that would be associated only with the best concept of God. All other concepts of truth would be but a fraction of the ONE (1) as in 1/x ... and would thus be "at best" relative truths, relative to other x's on the same (or different) level(s), but never FULLY equivalent to the (1). ... except ... for what I call the Basic Equation of Truth, the BET as (+=-) which IS UNIVERSAL TRUTH, that of God ! THE Absolute Truth ... IMnsHO.
So that might be stated, that there is no real truth but God's truth ... and it is God in the form of a Trinity relationship that makes up the Creation that IS God ... (+=-) where the complete "outer" unity of God would be defined by the pair of parentheses ( ), within which is contained every possible potential, (+) and (-), separated by, yet completely conjoined by, the Spirit of God (=), the equalizer of opposites, non-judgmental, yet fully discerning and karmically accounting ... (+=-) being the BET.
Short of THAT TRINITY (+=-), which results in peaceful cooperative harmony of natural diversities resulting in win/win synergy, we have but Dualism (+/-), which amounts to a judgmental dichotomy of conflicts where there is supposedly only one good and right, making all else less, bad and wrong ... of course that "naming" so often begins with the "righteous" labeling of the others BY the one the most militant about being right ... the way of our world today and getting worse it seems.
So in the end, we can rightly label as a tool for discernment, but should never be judgmental about it such that it insults and causes hard feelings ... anybody can be, say, a liberal or a conservative rightly and truthfully, it is no different than being a man or a woman, they are just facts of life and are nothing to be ashamed about or guilty of requiring defensiveness and conflict over ... let us instead find our natural Spiritual common ground in the middle (=) and work it all out based upon just that, agreeing to disagree if needed, but cooperating when we can for the synergy we are capable of and which God intends for us all ... Peace.
Jerry Kays, May 20, 2008, 5:11pm EDT
(reprinted from: http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977349739 )
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