When we understand that the mechanical view of the world is been built on a method of gaining knowledge, not knowledge itself, we might be able to set on the first step of gaining that missing knowledge. Imagining the world as a machine of push/pull factors was the method to answer how things work mechanically not how things work. Christopher Alexander wrote in his book "Nature of Order: The Phenomenon of Life" that what makes us create this lifeless modern building is our new disturbed understanding of the world (as a machine), confusing the parts we understand as they are the entire whole. Maybe this is why we say "the whole is greater than the parts" because we have only understood one part of these "parts" so we can't yet manage to build the entire "whole" picture. So if we admit having some missing parts but still somehow grasp the whole then maybe we could grasp a bit the nature of the universe?. Ok, let's try this on...
Whether the absolute “Truth” exists or not is a vast and beautiful debate. However, the problem is that we are not hanging in Athens; instead, we are fighting through social media. In that social battleground arena, we can easily filter out people, ignore others and create our own cultural bubble. I struggle so much with maintaining a good habit for debates that I developed. The difficulty of that habit increases with my increased interest in the topic: Whenever a collective discussion arises, I start to understand the argument that I am intuitively against (even if I had to go through annoying comments). Then I try to take out the positive aspects of their perspectives and include them in mine. Through this process, I sometimes find a middle way, which cannot be accepted by the mainstream contradicting positions. I often find myself having A centrist opinion that, On the other hand, a progressive person might discover too idealistic and unrealistic. On the other hand, the c...
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