"still...there is no evidence of absolutes in the secular world of personal bias and limitation."
Is it possible that evidence exists but the mind is incapable of recognizing it? The body has a type of intelligence that enables it to function. The mind has another type of intelligence that enables it to do its job, but as you say, it is limited to the realm of relativity. So, is the mind any more capable of proving or disproving the existence of absolutes than the foot is capable of proving or disproving the existence of rational thought?
The events of Sept.11 gave us many stories of people who "gave no thought" to their actions. They did what they did simply because it needed doing. If thought was not the basis of their actions, then what was? Training perhaps in the case of some of the professionals but what of the civilians?Instinct? Is this the word the mind uses to explain the unexplainable? Love perhaps, in the absolute sense, not the emotional, affectionate, sense.
Is it possible that we are expecting proof in the form of some mind-blowing miracle of global importance, when in fact evidence is all around us but we don't have the eyes to see it? What explains our actions when we act without thinking? What explains the actions of a young child whose mind in not yet developed enough to have created his self image and individual identity? What is their operational base for thinking? What makes us willing to give when we perceive a real need without questioning or judging?
If absolutes (truth, love, beauty, god whatever) are eternal, i.e. timeless, not past or future, but in the moment, is it a coincidence that in those moments that we "give not thought", instincts seem to take over? |
