There are 3 choices, 4 votes for Ilya Shambat's debate

Absolute and Relative

The Absolute Truth underlying the universe behind the relative frames.

Absolute wisdom, absolute passion, absolute beauty and absolute inspiration as ways to get there.


  • Only one absolute

    First let me compliment Ilya Shambat for the book, though somewhat unneccesary. You were way to elaborate about a simple subject. There is only one absolute in the universe and that is that of God. Absolute passion or wisdom or anything else doesnt really exist, due to the fact that it changes based on perception. There are perfect forms of these things, but they do not lead to Absolute Truth. When one truly looks at the univese in an objective manner, you see that a whole lot of non absolutes lead to one true absolute. God has perfect wisdom, but since wisdom changes form based on the situation, it can not be absolute. Nor is anything else except for God. God, in making the universe, took one absolute, and made a whole lot of not absolutes that would, when put together, lead to Him. I think that this is kind of the point that you are trying to get across, but you are doing it in an exremely long winded way, and saying that there are other absolutes, which there arent.

    50%  Voted for by manofomens2, Jesusquest.
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  • The Absolute

    I

    The Absolute exists within the Relative Which exists within the Absolute. The Frames of Timespace Are manifestation of Absolute Wisdom Which underlies Time and Space And to which TIme and Space are Subservient. All that is Of the Absolute Inspires Absolute Experience That Alights all of Manifestation And is Unmistakeable To Man Who exists For the Absolute And who when Found by the Absolute Is made to live Absolutely.

    II

    The absolute is experienced Absolutely. It is the absolute passion for the Beloved Punching with sledgehammers through the walls of emotional entrapment And bringing to Light what is of the Truth Which seeing the Truth Revealed in the Beloved Shatters and Bleeds for Her And in Finding the Truth in Her finds the Truth in the Universe. The absolute is experienced Absolutely. It is the absolute Liberty of Free Thought Breaking the Lies of Unofficial Tyranny And making True Freedom manifest - Freedom that Starts in One's Mind And through One's Actions Becomes Reality for One and All. The Absolute is experienced Absolutely. It is in the Absolute Beauty That shows what is Possible And that once revealed Calls forth the Absolute Embrace and the Absolute Passion As is the function of Human Organism Made and Adapted In its Aesthetics To Know and to Feel and to Apprehend And be Vitalized By Absolute As manifest in what is beheld. The Absolute Is in Absolute Inspiration That feels the Absolute Truth of the Universe That cuts through false logic and false psychology To Attain Absolute Spiritual and Emotional Inspiration And before which nothing else can be true. The Absolute Is in the Absolute Ecstatic Happiness Not in the bland contentment that is its enemy Not in some boring fulfilment of needs Not in hygiene of the mind That is the pretext of Modern Psychology But in the Absolute Ecstasy of Absolute Passion Made Real. The absolute is in absolute Rightness Standing upon the Absolute Truth of Life and Liberty And breaking through relativistic distortion To make Absolute Life Absolute Passion Absolute Beauty Absolute Inspiration And Absolute Freedom and Truth and Rightness Reality for One and All.

    III

    The Absolute Is the choice one makes When one is tired of dogma. The Absolute Is the choice one makes When one is tired of lies. The Absolute Is the choice of embracing The Absolute Truth of the Universe Beyond relativity And which the Truth of the Human Mechanism exists to Fathom. Its sense is Absolute Passion Its aesthetics is Absolute Beauty Its product is Being and Becoming Its politics is Absolute Liberty of Mind and Heart Its Moral Sense is Self-Interest and Other-Interest working together And its consummate fruit is Absolute Happiness that is a function of all these things And function also of The Absolute Truth of Universe As embodied in Human Being Made Complete.

    IV

    The Absolute lives beyond Relativity and Relativity lives in its service. The Absolute comes to reveal His truth To those who seek with Absolute Dedication in Their Hearts and Minds. He is not here for Comfort He is not here for Contentment He is not here for Similitude. The Absolute is what one finds When he sees the relativistic constructs to be transitory And dedicates His Life to the Absolute. The Absolute Truth of Absolute Passion The Absolute Truth of Absolute Wisdom The Absolute Truth of Absolute Freedom The Absolute Truth of Absolute Beauty The Absolute Truth of Absolute Inspiration The Absolute Truth of Absolute Goodness The Absolute Truth of Absolute Will.

    V

    Seeking the Kingdom of the Absolute Puts all else in its place As all else serves the Absolute. To stand on the Absolute Means to be Free Absolutely And to be Right Absolutely And to have Absolute Passion, Absolute Inspiration and Absolute Wisdom And Absolute Ecstatic Happiness follows as a function.

    VI

    There is sugar at the center of Milky Way. The essence is sweet When apprehended completely. The stars and the Night have wisdom greater than that of the Sun And nurture Life with their beauty and delicacy. They call in the night saying to lift the head and to let them bathe it in their resplendor Impart of their magnificence Give their compassion and wisdom To not keep eye to the earth only But look above And be given Wisdom of the Stars Makes inspiration for human existence. And beyond them and crafting them Is the Absolute.

    VII

    The Absolute Experience of Beauty Is the Direct Experience of the Absolute. The Absolute Inspiration Is the Direct Experience of the Absolute. The Absolute Passion Is the Direct Experience of the Absolute And one before which nothing else can matter. A Relative Happiness will pass away A Relative Power will pass away A Relative Logic, serving the Relativistic Distortion, will pass away, But the Absolute will Remain Forever Because Forever is His Name Because Infinity and Eternity are His nature Because All Exists in Reference to and By Grace Of the Absolute And the Galilean Frames and Quantum Systems are made of the Absolute And man's Will Guided by Passion and Beauty and Inspiration and All Else that is Of the Absolute Punches through All to Attain His Glory.

    VIII

    The Absolute lives in the hearts and minds of those open to His greatness. The traces are million and one of His wisdom and Truth: The butterfly whose wings pollinate a delicate flower The coral reefs of Australia The Horsehead Nebula The inspiration in mind of a thinker The tenderness and warmth and gentleness of woman's heart. All that are open to His greatness sing His name The Earth is Full of His Glory.

    IX

    The Absolute Is beyond time and beyond space. Rather He is in Experience of Eternity Whether it be found in passionate love Or in masterpieces of nature and art Or in inspiration that guides all improvement Or in accomplishment that consummates man Or in freedom of thought and imagination Or in openness to the magnificence of the cosmos. The experience of the Absolute Is Absolute and Undeniable And Overwhelming And feels Of the Eternity And finds the Truth of Eternity In anything in which one is most open To Feeling or Seeing or Apprehending the Absolute. The experience of the Absolute Feels more True than the apparent timespace continuum For it is experience Of that of which timespace continuum is only a manifestation And which Man's True Self Exists to Serve.

    X

    It is meaningless to say that there is a dichotomy between Ideal and Reality. Ideal becomes Real by people choosing to make it so. This is the Power of the Absolute As Inspired in Man. It is meaningless to say that there is a dichotomy between Beauty and Pragmatism. Beauty becomes Practical Reality of People's Lives By people choosing to make it so. This is the Power of the Absolute As Inspired in Man. The absolute exists within the Relative Which exists within the Absolute. The Relative is an intermediate layer A river of Lethe that sometimes is Bridged By the Absolute Passion Of Life seeking the wisdom of Death to inspire Existence And by the Absolute Wisdom Of Death seeking to give Life its riches That its knowledge not be lost But inspire the living and the yet-to-live To Know what it Knows And Act with Absolute Wisdom.

    XI

    The Absolute is a Being of Passion And Wisdom and Liberty and Inspiration And Beauty and Ecstatic Happiness. The Absolute is not made of rock; He is Plasmic Fire Whose Self-Creative Passion fuels all that exists. The Absolute is found in the Magnificence of the Beloved In the Masterpieces of Cosmos In the Beauty and Wisdom and Inspiration and Innovation and Individuality To which Humanity owes all it has.

    XII

    Through Innovation and Passion and Inspiration and Beauty and Freedom and Wisdom and Goodness and Inspired Intelligence The Absolute sends his Flaming Arrows To remind Man of what is the Truth of his Incarnation And of the Absolute Truth behind the Relative The Omnipotent Essence behind the Existential And of which Existence is a manifestation. Through what Evokes the Absolute Feeling And thought and spirit and inspiration The Absolute Comes to Man and Gives of the Truth. There would not be the relative without the Absolute And all that is not of the Absolute is transitory. But in the Absolute is Eternity And the Earth is Full of His Glory.

    XIII

    To Lift the Head to the Absolute And be guided by what is Of the Absolute Is to be Absolute Being And to use the action and will That are absolute in the world To inspire and create what is Of the Absolute. It is to Live Absolutely.

    XIV

    The manifestations of the Absolute Are Absolutes Of Beauty, Freedom, Goodness, Compassion and Wisdom. The experiences of the Absolute Are Absolutes Of Passion and Inspiration. These are Man's responses to the Absolute For that is Of what man is made And in response to which The Totality of Man Is Alit by Absolute Experience That Transcends Time and Space And exists to guide it.

    XV

    The Absolute Is at once Intelligence Wisdom Inspiration Goodness Passion Beauty And Freedom. He is where all these things live as one He is the Source of all these things Which like different spectra of light Refract through the existential prism of the world And find multifarious manifestations Of different aspects of the Absolute That is One And of which all else is a reification and an aspect.

    XVI

    To be Of the Absolute And to inspire through it Absolute Inspiration Absolute Individuality Absolute Beauty And Absolute Truth Revealed through Man's Will on Earth Is to live in the Absolute Which is also the Eternal and the True. It profits man none to achieve relativistic goals While forgoing the truth of the soul. To live Absolutely Is to live inspired by the Absolute And make action and feeling and life functional to the Absolute Which to mind becomes the Guide and through action becomes the Manifestation.

    XVII

    It's not a dichotomy between Ideal and Reality Or Beauty and Practicality Or Passion and World. Ideal is guide from the Absolute Beauty is its manifestation Passion is response to it. Man acts to make these reality in the Practical World Using Reality of his Action. The relativistic layer is only a shroud A Lethe between life and death Over which is built a bridge by principle Or under which is dug a tunnel by passion In which the world of the absolute guidance and the world of manifestation merge and refine.

    XVIII

    There is no truth without the Absolute Nor goodness nor ethics nor principle. The Absolute Guides and Man Receives And then Man Creates. The action informed by the Absolute Is the action based on what is most true and profound And the life informed by the Absolute Is the life that is worthy of having been lived. The relativistic goals are transitory But goals based on the Absolute are unbreakable. The relativistic freedom is illusory But freedom based on the Absolute is beyond destruction. The relativistic happiness is vain But happiness based on the Absolute is complete.

    XIX

    The Absolute is experienced Absolutely And in absolute Passion Absolute Inspiration Absolute Freedom Absolute Righteousness Absolute Wisdom Absolute Beauty And Absolute Excellence Is the Truth of the Absolute.

    XX

    To seek for the Absolute Absolutely Or to be found by the Absolute Are the same Truth attained from different directions. There is nothing without the Absolute And relative layer is only a veil A river That is bridged by absolute principle Or dug under by absolute passion. Man's ideologies and psychologies and businesses and politics will pass away Carrying with them billions of broken people But the Absolute endures forever And that which lives in the Absolute is unbreakable.

    XXI

    Who can destroy the stars? Who can extinguish a quasar? Who can open up a black hole and send back all the matter and energy that is inside? But it is the Absolute that exists beyond all distortion And whom all that exists lives to serve.

    XXII

    The Essence that precedes Existence Is Absolute beyond Relativity That shapes the truth of man. The Essence that follows Existence Is man's deliberate action That shapes the man Pursuant his choices. It is by this intermingling Between Essence Given and Essence Created That Man who is Shaped and Shaper Becomes Man that is Complete Man that is Of the Absolute And Absolute Shaper of the Incorporeal.

    XXIII

    Grace is the vital link Between Earth And heaven. Like lightning it reaches from top to bottom And alights Absolutely what it finds. Its logic is alien to the mind When it is trained to screen out Essence behind Existence Yet known well to the Heart and Spirit When they are true. In it the essences come together And light up like a rainbow Which is refraction of the Absolute That is Pure White Light Through the existential prism of manifestation.

    XXIV

    The absolute is experienced Absolutely For the truth of the Absolute Is inscribed on Man's Heart And Inspired in Man's Spirit And once made present In itself Or in its manifestations It inspires Absolute Passion Absolute Inspiration Absolute Ecstasy and Absolute Life. There is nothing outside the Absolute And nothing worthwhile without Him. Contentment is enemy of happiness And prissiness is enemy of passion But the Absolute endures Forever And all true Happiness comes through Him.

    XXV

    There is nothing outside the Absolute And nothing that would not recognize the Absolute When found by Him. Man lives by Grace of the Absolute And Absolute is Experienced Absolutely. Some find the Absolute And others are found by the Absolute With Absolute Passion And Absolute Beauty And Absolute Wisdom And Absolute Goodness And Absolute Inspiration And Absolute Intellect And Absolute Rightness And these are equally valid For these are the pathways Across the River of Lethe To make Man remember And inspire Life with Wisdom of Absolute Light.

    XXVI

    To live Absolutely Is to live within the Absolute. It is to live despite the distortion And reach for what underlies the relative And beyond Prism of Unfoldment To find Plasmic Fire of Absolute Light Of which Prism is structure of Manifestation. There are many ways for Man to get to the Absolute And many ways that Absolute reaches Man But the experience of the Absolute Is Absolute. All that is absolute in Man Is function of Absolute living through Him And whose Absolute Ecstatic Happiness Is Result of Life in Him of the Absolute And the Absolute Being Self-Existent Transcends the Laws that He has Himself Created To reach into the Heart and Soul of Man Where Man would most be open to Him And Lift man into His glory That he may live Absolutely And thus do Him honor for having lived.

    XXVII

    There is nothing besides the Absolute And all is to Him subservient And all that creates Absolute Experience Serves Him And is by Him justified. To serve the Absolute Is the highest honor Of human existence And the only pathway to Immortality For Infinity and Eternity Exist only in the Absolute As they cannot exist By logic of time and space But are most easy and natural to that which is beyond time and space For whom all that is Supernatural is most natural And who is behind all that is Absolute in Experience and Existence of Man.

    XXVIII

    The Absolute loves Goodwill Compassion Generosity Righteousness Inspired feeling And inspired thought. The Absolute loathes Small thoughts and feelings Oppression Pettiness And all that is not of the Absolute Or that places perspective in the Relative And makes Man to it Referential Without knowing what made it Or what it serves Or of man's true nature as Absolute Being Here to serve the Absolute And who is by the Absolute made righteous. The Absolute is the Source And the Absolute is the Destination His name is the Plasmic Fire His name is the Self-Existing One His name is Endless Grace His name is Inspiration His name is Abundant Love His name is Infinity and Eternity His name is Creator All lives by His grace And the Earth is full of His glory.

    XXIX

    The dream creates permutations But the original is not something that can be dreamed But only created. What has not been thought of before Is claim on absolute existence. The Absolute lives through many other aspects But in original thought and products and works Man becomes undeniable And completely real And thus is made apparent the Absolute in Himself.

    XXX

    Can man unhook the stars? But he can shoot for them. The plasmic fire works as a molecule Its supercharged fire making whole of its parts. Thus fire of passion Brings hearts and minds together And they function as one And Absolute lives through both. Thus likewise synergy Puts minds together And they come together with what did not exist before. It is possible to have it both ways And it is mind's purpose to do so Not compromising But taking what's right in all parties And putting them together to make the best of all worlds.

    XXXI

    Man has self-interest and man has other-interest. These are two aspects of man's orientation within mankind. To make the most of both of these Is to make the most of man. It is to allow self the absolute freedom of goal and personhood and self-craftsmanship and individuality and inspiration Thus making the most of self-orientation And to seek good for the rest of humanity In any way or ways that mean the most to their true interest And that puts one's talents to most benign use Thus making the most of other-orientation. This is made the most of the totality of man's orientation within humanity: The most as experienced by the self in a way that matters to self And the most as experienced by mankind. The most likewise of self-interest and species-interest, Both of which are legitimate orientations of man And through both of which exists humanity and each person.

    XXXII

    It makes no sense to serve If people cannot benefit from the service. It makes no sense to serve human interest If people are not allowed self-interest for themselves. To protect then demand absolute power Is to run a protection racket And not to serve but to choke. By insisting upon the right to self-interest and self-definition One serves oneself and humanity the most In ways from which the existing and the yet-to-exist most benefit And which allow conditions necessary for the good of the living and the coming to flourish As measured in their experience of life In their Happiness, Life and Liberty.

    XXXIII

    There are many approaches And there are many paths.

    >From capitalism to academia to mysticism to civil service

    All these exist to make sure that no single game becomes absolute and absolutely oppressive. To have many paths And among them synergy Within context of checks and balances Is to have most liberty for the man And most accomplishment for mankind.

    XXXIV

    Still more paths: Artistic inspiration Scientific experimentation Faith Meditation Passion Service Creating beauty And crafting magnificent legacy. All these are paths to the absolute. To see in one part of the universe another part of the universe And to see laws of universe as expressed in both Is likewise a path to Absolute: A metaphorical path to transcendent wisdom That, knowing the laws of the Universe to be found in its parts, Sees the common among creations And underlying them all: The Universe.

    XXXV

    There is nothing new under the Sun Except Internet Cellphones Automobiles Personal computers Space sattellites And every individual in the world. The laws of the universe are manifest in all of the universe And in each part of the universe can be found correspondence with another part And the universal can be found to speak through both. Man is the creature To the extent that he follows the laws of the universe And man is the creator To the extent he sets them according to his volition. This dual nature Makes man a co-creator And someone who makes new things under the sun While remaining here to experience What is eternal While adding to it - Which addition can either be universal or temporal. As the Created And the Creator As the Created Being And the Self-Creative Becoming Man having been Shaped shapes World and Himself. It is not dichotomy between Ideal and Reality; Ideal becomes Reality through Man's Action And Reality feeds back into Ideal To form still more informed Ideal And pursuant still more informed Ideal A still more informed Reality.

    XXXVI

    The experience of the Absolute Is also the experience of the Infinite and the Eternal. The experience does not need to remain eternal Or even to last But it is in itself the path to the Absolute Which is likewise the Infinite and the Eternal And what the Relative exists to serve. When student is ready teacher appears And student can be ready for many reasons. The vibrational frequency of the mind of the student Attracts teacher By reaching to the level of the referential At which he exists And can then be guided anyplace But will be judged for the results.

    XXXVII

    It is Man's Created Being And man's right to shape self according to Ideal and Value - To self-creative Becoming - That makes man not only absolute as created But absolute as co-creator. Man did not create his nature And cannot be judged for it But his choice as to what he Becomes Is both a grace and a burden. Man certainly can't be judged For traits made as a child. Man's Being is function of nature; Man's Becoming is deliberate self-directed action. Becoming is both a grace and a burden That elevates man out of the natural law of being determined And puts man into the human law of self-determination Until his Being becomes a result of Becoming And then - only then - man truly becomes Function of Choice For which he can be judged or considered And by which he is made self-determining. And how he is made Real.

    XXXVIII

    Some dualities are value-neutral and legitimate. Others are valued and illegitimate. Man and woman Day and night Mind and heart Valuing and liking Are both legitimate and value-neutral Neither side better than other Both necessary And the optimal outcome comes

    >From them working together

    And making more than either and more than both. Good and evil Health and disease Beauty and ugliness Are valued and illegitimate: The first in each pair is always right; The second in each pair is always wrong And the optimal outcome comes

    >From being the first completely.

    Distinction between legitimate and illegitimate dualities Informs choices as to what to do with them And thus drives any action that has a chance of being informed. The Eastern dualism And the Western dualism Have nothing in common with one another And must not be ever confused For underlying energies are incompatible And results of the confusion are disastrous.

    XXXIX

    The heart and the mind are both valid: Both wonderful, both capable of error, both needing each other. It is by combining both that we have complete understanding With two working as checks-and-balances when errors stand to be made And working in synergy to aim for goals that are rightful. Heart determines what is loved; Mind determines what is valued. Happiness happens when two are in accord. To want one thing but value another, is to have no chance for happiness As mind and heart work against one another And sabotage each other along the way. This leads to belief that happiness cannot be found When the problem is with the mindset that leads to this separation Between heart and mind. It is when mind and heart work together That one can attain at happiness. Man becomes good and humanity becomes good When mind and heart understand one another And work in synergy That builds on both And creates something better than either would have created itself.

    XXXX

    To understand something Absolutely It is necessary to observe it objectively And feel it subjectively. It is to see both the external results And the way it is experienced from the inside. It is to engage both the rationality and the feeling And to make it fathomable to both at once. Only examining objectively gives no understanding of how it is felt And ruins compassion and emotional understanding. Only experiencing subjectively gives no understanding of external effects. By integrative cognition - Combining objective examination and subjective experience - It becomes possible to understand experiences, cultures, religions and lifestyles In a way that combines evidence of mind And evidence of heart And thus creates totality of experience and understanding In a way that engages the entirety of human being. In a way that is both felt and fathomed. In a way that is - Absolute.

    XXXXI

    In choice - In self-creative Becoming Is man's grace And ability to do what is right whatever the nature. The Being is not subject to choice hence cannot be subject to judgment And choice of Becoming is man's saving grace. The Gordian Knot is two complementary half-truths Creating a soul-killing falsehood. Such is attacking people on moral basis for things Such as nature That aren't subject to moral choice. Such is claiming that beauty is relative And then attacking women for being beautiful Therefore showing that one like all else knows what is beautiful And beauty is not relative after all. The Gordian Knot is two complementary half-truths Enfolding the soul And it is untied not simply by logic that it twists around itself And not simply by desire which it entraps and usurps But by a combination of mind and heart. The Gordian knot is untied By man's wits Guided by man's desire.

    XXXXII

    The Pomegranate is one link to the Underworld As in the myth of Persephone. The Pomegranate is a fruit consisting of seeds. The fruit is a function of itself and the seeds. The seeds are the function of the fruit and their unique selves. Through intermingling and interconnectivity and shaping and reshaping each other Is achieved accomplishment of the seeds Accomplishment of the fruit And accomplishment of the conditions within the fruit.

    XXXXIII

    A pattern is noticed and then deconstructed When something is found that refutes it. In this way man goes through stages of judgment To other stages And ultimately to seeing as is. The pomegranate has pioneer seeds That refute the explanation given before. Many want to destroy them for that reason, And many pioneer seeds believe they have no value. Their value is in leading to greater understanding. The seed is itself, and the pioneer seed is itself, But likewise an integral part of the fruit And by identifying with both itself and the fruit Stands for originality and refutes the false ideology And allows understanding to grow. The world improves with it. To identify with self And identify with cosmic process of which self is a part Is a way to defeat oppression under any name And to live Absolutely.

    XXXXIV

    The flower also embodies the logic Of both itself and the cosmic process. The flower is the fulfillment of the species Its consummation its blossoming And the state from which it derives its name. The flower is likewise the link to the future Of the species And of course also of the world. The logic of consummation and continuity Intermingle within the flower And lead her to seek to be her best And to inspire and nurture the coming. All that is flower Is fulfillment Of Consummation and Continuity. She seeks to be her most beautiful And she seeks to inspire the coming. This double logic may seem to some contradictory But it is far more wise and inspired and Absolute.

    XXXXV

    If I were to treat the next person the way I want to be treated I would be projecting myself onto him While squashing his own individuality. But by treating the next person the way they want to be treated I do honor to the next person and that what made the next person. I treat the next person the way I want to be treated To the extent that we embody the same humanity. I treat the next person the way they want to be treated To the extent that the next person is different from me. In all there is that which is universal And that which is individual And both are aspects of the Absolute: The first as it is embodied in all of man The second as it is embodied in the next person. It is by seeing both and honoring both That the entirety of humanity Both universal and individual Both eternal and temporal Both created Being and self-creative Becoming Can be made complete. And by working in synergy with each other The individual and the universal The temporal and the eternal Can make most of themselves And most of mankind. I honor the next person For being the next person: For the universal within them And their own original. In giving both a way to exist And to work in synergy I invigorate human existence And honor man's dual nature As creature and as creator As shaped and shaper As universal and temporary As species and individual As created Being and self-creative Becoming In self-interest and in other-interest And give life to the totality of that which is man.

    XXXXVI

    The choice to make Is not whether it is good relative to the present state of affairs, But what will be made of the world if other people were to do the same thing. The Categorical Imperative Means to do what will make the world better Which means: Making possible for each next person the most of self-interest And making possible for the civilization the most of other-interest. The more freedom and beauty and individuality and passion allowed The more good one does for humanity. To move the place toward a state where families Communities Countries Civilizations Support and allow existence Of freedom Beauty Life Happiness - That is the true Categorical Imperative And it is by pursuing it That one does true moral good For himself and for the World. It's not acceptable to have traditional values As means of perpetuation of misery. To make traditions accept beauty and life and liberty - That is how future of humankind is assured And the more life and liberty Incorporated into the constructs The more good one does for the existing And for the world. To think historically Of what world would be good both for humanity And for each human being - That is the task of the mind and heart. Through new ideas the civilization grows And through new patterns the world becomes the best it can be.

    XXXXVII

    It is not by reference to temporal constructs That man exists But by reference to the Absolute. Cultural norms are relative And to define man in reference to them Is to usurp man And to usurp the Absolute. Man does not exist by reference to one or another relative adaptation But by the Absolute And it is by going to the Absolute That man finds His true nature. Man's destiny is to be Absolute And that means to live within the Absolute And by the truth of the Absolute to be justified.

    XXXXVIII

    Some say mankind is great but people are awful. Some say man is vile but people are all right. The absolute and oppression against the absolute require different methods And evoke different responses. The man who identifies with the soul Is seen as an enemy of the context But it is the context that sees him that way That is the enemy of the soul And as such the enemy of the vital force of humanity Which is a function of the absolute. The people who identify with the soul And being attuned to life's absolute And give gifts of life Which are Freedom Eros Beauty Passion Wisdom Vitality Inspiration The living code of intellect and inspiration and charitability Instead of the dead one of oppression. Those attuned to the law of the soul Are better company and far lesser sinners Than people who attack life And are therefore dried up And incapable of forgiveness. It is better to live on a roof alone Than at home with a shrew or a banalist. And those who are called sluts or whores Are far lesser sinners than mouthy harpies. The first give the gift of life; The second give the gift of death. For as long as one is living, The code of life is more true.

    XXXXIX

    All need the Absolute But most destroy it when it is found. Man wants free-spirited woman For she is full of life And passion and eros and beauty - All of the Absolute That man craves and loves and requires. But same man attacks free-spirited man, Seeing him as enemy of the context. Once man gets the woman, He will feed on her energy at emotional level While bludgeoning her at the mental one With the lie of the context Which he bought into and claimed his But which is not itself life-supporting And in its basic nature dead. For code of the dead The Absolute is a threat and a menace And exists to be destroyed in man And attacked in woman who has it Once she is captive audience. As he attacks her She becomes robbed of what made her lovable - The Absolute The life The eros The delicacy The inspiration And man's love evaporates. He says the problem is love. The problem is his belief.

    L

    Dead rules Dead code Dead supposeds In place of the living code of thought and compassion and inspiration That was given by God and followed by best of man Is a betrayal of the Testament And betrayal of the best minds of mankind Who did not fight for liberty and inspiration In order that future generations should live in oppression and misery. Oppression by any other name is betrayal of liberty And betrayal of what true benefactors of humanity Have given their lives for. The Dead Letter is not fit guide for the living people And loving one's neighbor is not loving what oppresses him But loving his soul. To love the soul of man is to fight what oppresses it, And compromise with that which wants man dead leaves him half-dead. Inspiration and intellect and wisdom and charitability Take life out of the cave And make it worth living. In these things is found the Absolute And in this leads improvement Both for man And for mankind.

    LI

    To act one way when wooing And another way when married Is to engage in false advertising. To push young people into lives They would not choose if free and informed Is to steal lives. There is no sanctity to false advertising Or life-stealing And covenants To truly be sacred Must be free of these and related wrongs. They must be based in freedom And abundant wisdom and knowledge And only then can they Claim to have responsibility and ethics. Only then can they Have the sanction Of the Absolute.

    LII

    The perpetuation of the lie of the context And making the culturally relative context The absolute principle in humanity Requires constant search for sources of vitality And feeding upon them While attacking them at the moral level. This - failing to compute one's inputs - Is far greater sin And far greater hypocrisy. To identify with the soul Is to be able to have true compassion And be of true value to mankind. To keep to emotional truth, is to experience and know the Absolute. And it is by this that the wisdom of Absolute is made possible And makes a livable world.

    LIII

    Man cannot make a good choice when he is not informed. Knowledge and wisdom are required for anything that could possibly call itself responsible For knowledge and wisdom are necessary to know the world And thus compute the results of man's action And act in a deliberate and calculated manner That computes the consequences and maximizes the good while diminishing the bad. There is no responsibility without wisdom and knowledge; Not knowing the world, people do actions they think responsible but aren't. Freedom is necessary for knowledge Because it is only within freedom that man can be free of dogma And pursue knowledge impartially. Knowledge is a prerequisite for ethics Because only within knowledge can true good and wrong be computed. Freedom and knowledge are therefore prerequisites for all other virtues And without them neither ethics nor responsibility can exist.

    LIV

    Success means meeting one's own goals. To define success by objective standard Is to define it as meeting goals that aren't one's own, But as meeting goals that somebody else has for them. That is an usurpation and a betrayal of liberty. To succeed means to achieve one's goals, Not goals that somebody else has for oneself. Success is not measured in property terms Unless property is one's own, freely and informed, chosen goal. Success is not measured in contentment Unless that is one's own, freely and informed, chosen goal. Success is not measured by an external standard But by a standard that one sets for oneself. Liberty means finding one's goals and pursuing them Or being open to life and letting one's goals find oneself. Or, if so fits, live a goalless existence. Most people don't know what they truly want until they encounter it And they most certainly don't know what they truly want until they've explored. To be open to life so that it finds you - To attain wisdom and knowledge that frees you from entrapment - And then only then being able to act deliberately and responsibly - That is the prerequisite for any success worthy of being had.

    LV

    The tools are not gods But tools. Technology Society State Money Logic Science Are tools And ones that can be wielded wisely or wielded foolishly But have no claim on definitive power Over Man Having neither created the Universe Nor having the wisdom To make Man. Tools exist to be used And that means Use technology to create beauty Use society to create civilization Use logic to produce great works For to be used - whether for good or for ill - is a tool's nature. Tools can be used for great things But are poor gods.

    LVI

    The tool Possesses no wisdom or overarching perspective or compassion And as such is a poor god. To deify tools And use them as reference points of human existence Is to define man in reference to the relative Which is to make man tool of a tool And make his life Relative to a relative And hence vicarious. To define man in reference to a social adaptation Is to make absolute functional to the relative And thus to create tyranny of the relative Totalitarianism of the proletariat That gives unofficial adaptations the definitive power over totality of man's beingness The power to define man in reference to itself. Which is the power to make its relative self the center of value and definitive power And by in reference to which man can be defined and judged. Which pseudo-authority, being unofficial, is also unchecked and unbalanced and unaccountable And becomes absolute While having none of the Wisdom, Compassion, Goodness and Greatness That is of the Absolute. To present man In reference to social interest Or ideology Or psychology Or trend Is to admit a Trojan Horse Of referential construct And assay man in terms of the transitory While giving it the definitive authority over what is man And thus to usurp man absolutely In service of things that have none of the wisdom of the Absolute. It is not by the relative that man is justified But by the Absolute And it is in the Absolute that is found Absolute Life And Absolute Right And Absolute Existence. To define the absolute in reference to the relative is an usurpation. The Absolute Power belongs only to the Absolute And Man lives by His glory.

    LVII

    Status Family Community Social control Legalism Are all relative desires: Desires relative to temporary purposes And temporary social adaptations. They have no greater moral authority Than any other desire of the flesh And indeed By themselves tend to become usurpatory Using moral authority of the Absolute For their transitory ends. To use God for these relative ends Is to put the Absolute in service of the the Temporal. There is nothing more ethical about these things Than about anything else that lives in human being And the fact that they are used as center of moral code And center of definitive code Means that they must be checked by wisdom Both from the Absolute in man's passion and inspiration And from the Absolute in man's liberty.

    LVIII

    How many souls Got lost in the snares of the relative Or never experienced life Thinking that they were doing the work of the Absolute While being closed off to existence? To live by the Absolute means not to avoid what is relative But to put the Absolute First And make the relative follow As is its nature And as it is designed to do. The Absolute punctures the seeming And uses all that is relative to His purpose. Man lives truly when living in Absolute And in the Infinite and Eternal that are His attributes. The Absolute is In-Itself, For-Himself, And Man finds his way to the Absolute Or the Absolute finds His way to Man And both these paths are equally valid.

    LIX

    Dreams are made real By man choosing to make them real. In making dreams real Man serves mankind. It makes no sense to serve If nobody benefits from the service. By making dreams real Not only does man make life beautiful for the next person But he likewise shows what is possible And creates accomplishment of mankind. He inspires others and gives them reason to live. The self-interest and other-interest Work in synergy with each other, With first making most of self And second making most for others. These are inextricable and absolute And can be arranged the best way, The worst way Or one of the two middle ways. Making the most of both Is making the most of totality that is man. It is not the choice Between dream or reality Or between individualism and collectivism. Dreams are made real by man's action, And individual liberty and doing good for the next person Both being particulars of human nature Are one and the same And avail of their riches when made free.

    LX

    There is no legitimate war Between heart and mind Or man and woman: They must work together Within the context of mutual understanding And thus make something that has not existed before By building on best of both. The legitimate dualities Like branches of federal government Know parameters of their roles And work in synergy Within context of checks-and-balances Creating more than what is in either And something that has not existed before While themselves being protected from destruction and usurpation. There is no compromise between good and evil Or health and disease: The illegitimate dualities Depend on the good triumphing completely. The compromise with something that wants you dead leaves you half-dead. The Eastern and Western system are both dualitistic, But the approach to dualities cannot be more different And the solution to dealing with dualities cannot be more different. To treat mind and heart Or man and woman The same way one treats good and evil Is absolute disaster and horrid wrong. Mind and heart Or man and woman Are both legitimate And must work together. But good must always triumph over evil.

    LXI

    Some say that beauty is only skin-deep While ugliness goes down to the bone. They say this because they haven't known true beauty Or if they did tore it to shreds. True beauty is work of the Absolute And is made absolute through choice for Him. It is beauty that holds affininity for all that is beautiful And makes all that is beautiful Her inspiration. It is beauty of orchid Internalized in the human being And as a result of choice Made to be shaper. It is beauty of heart and mind Made to motivate being one's best And making one's actions most beautiful. True beauty goes all the way to the bone And remains there for as long as the person chooses to make it so Whereas temporary ugliness can be made to go away. True beauty goes down to the heart And from the heart radiates through the totality of one's being. It's not a choice between inner or outer beauty. It's a choice FOR absolute beauty Where inner and outer beauty feed into each other And make each other complete. True beauty is Absolute Whether internalized in one's heart and mind Or given from without And making her totality beautiful With the wisdom of Absolute Truth Radiating through the entirety of her being.

    LXII

    Choice makes possible all things deemed impractical. It makes possible Beauty Love Poetry Brilliance Inspiration Wisdom Redemption And religiously inspired existence. Choice is man's saving grace And that makes it man's analog of the Absolute. Things subject to choice Are subject to judgment Therefore wisdom Is necessary For good choice To be made.

    LXIII

    The mindset of suppression of creative thinking Is the mindset of suppression of all to which humanity owes everything. As such it is a mindset of parasitism and oppression And results in brutality and barbarism Under the banner of righteousness Which it is not. It is not a matter of taste; It's a matter of what it takes to maintain tastelessness. It's not a matter of things being boring; It's a matter of what it takes to maintain boredom. It's not even a matter of ugliness; It's what is done to those who are most naturally attuned to beauty. And it is a matter of similitude And what it takes to maintain it In the land of the free the home of the brave. Through suppression of creativity Is perpetuated an order that cannot tap into human genius And is therefore shorn of the best that man can do. The sin is failure to tap into the genius And what is done to keep the genius from blossoming. Through suppression of taste Is perpetuated an ugly place. The sin is failure to tap into what would make the place beautiful And what is done to keep the taste from being able to give of its fruits. Through suppression of individuality Is perpetuated an order that cannot grow through people being individuals And being the most they can be. The sin is failure to tap into the wisdom attained by individual existence And what is done to keep people from becoming individuals. Through suppression of emotional truth Is perpetuated from generation to generation the same falsehood. The sin is failure to tap into the wisdom contained in emotional truth And what is done to keep it suppressed. To maintain ugliness and similitude Are done some of the most awful wrongs currently committed And always require destruction Of what is bright and original and open and inspired in humanity. Similitude, ugliness and banality Are therefore not innocent But require horrible wrongs to maintain them And are therefore a blight on all places in which they exist.

    LXIV

    The Emotional Truth Is aspect of the Absolute In humanity. It gnarls and twists when suppressed Like horns that grow in the stomach But when released to the air Become receptacles of divine truth. The quality of the covenant And its truthfulness to the Absolute Is measured by whether the horns in people Are allowed a way to heaven Or whether they gnarl and twist inside them Until the people die.

    LXV

    What is the opposite of love? Some say it's hatred, But there are many people who love and hate the same person at the same time. Some say it's fear, But there are many people who love and fear the same person at the same time. What cannot someone feel for the person one loves? To not care about them. That is the opposite of love: The absense of passion. The opposite of the Absolute Is the absense of the Absolute. And it is by presence of Absolute in all of his actions That man is made to live Absolutely As is His destiny.

    LXVI

    When mind and heart work together Within framework of mutual appreciation and understanding- Then we see synergy That incorporates the wisdom of both And makes it formative to one's life. When man and woman come together Within framework of mutual appreciation and understanding- Then we see synergy That produces from these equals what neither could by themselves produce. Man and woman Mind and heart Self-interest and other-interest Within framework of mutual appreciation and understanding Can and should be able to create magnificence. When these are in accord Beauty is created And true passion and absolute happiness follow. Heart and mind Man and woman Day and night Are equals and can work together To take inspiration in each pair And make it blossom into mature fruit. There is nothing equal about good and evil Or health and disease. The legitimate dualities are true And work with each other To create splendor But compromise with someone who wants you dead leaves you half-dead. Appreciation, understanding and synergy between legitimate dualities And absolute extremism in illegitimate dualities - There is found recipe for lasting beauty and happiness of the world.

    LXVII

    Man in his Becoming Is co-creator Supplementing the Being: Determining rather than only being Determined And thus being made Absolute function of Choice. It makes no sense to attack man's nature For he did not determine it But Choice gives man ability to Determine his actions And shape his self - For which he can be judged And which is both a grace and a burden And allows man to act righteously Whatever his nature happens to be. Only that which is open to Choice Is open to Judgment, Which Choice can only rightly be done Within framework of Wisdom Which can only be found within framework of Freedom. Any moral attack on man's nature Is an attack on what's not open to choice, And any concept of ethics or responsibility Without Wisdom and Freedom Is a lie. Wisdom is a prerequisite for being informed Which is a prerequisite for calculated action Which is a prerequisite of action that is responsible or ethical. And any concept of ethics or responsibility Without Wisdom and Freedom Is a lie And results in stolen lives. Which is hardly ethical or responsible. This Gordian knot likewise must be untied.

    LXVIII

    Man's understanding completes that of God, Who had neither experience of being most men Nor that of being any woman. Man's understanding completes that of God And together they work in synergy To manifest the Absolute Essence beyond the relative frames And to supplement it with Absolute Truth of man's experience. Moses talked God out of killing the Jews at Mount Sinai. To reason with God, Knowing that He is God Can at many times complete His perspective As well as enhance one's own. The Absolute Is universal As well as individual And through identifying with self And the Universe Like seed in the pomegranate One lives Absolutely Both for self and for the Absolute.

    LXIX

    Sometimes reality follows sense of righteousness Sometimes sense of righteousness follows reality. The idea that the world is just Leads to moral cowardice That attacks people who are hurting And makes justification why they deserve to be hurt still more. The just-world hypothesis That gives people a sense of sanity Is maintained by perpetuation of brutality and injustice and crime - Which is cowardice combined with being participant in that crime and injustice. When someone destroyed starts rising The just-world hypothesis people howl As they do when someone elevated starts going down. The world is not just But a result of people's actions Which can be just or injust And it is by making it just That the Absolute again leads That Justice leads That Beauty leads That Ideal leads That what is of the Absolute leads And shapes the referential into embodiment of truth and justice.

    LXX

    The integrative way Is the way of building with mind and heart With intuition and intellect With spirit and body With subjective and objective With self-interest and other-interest With universal and individual And making the most of human experience As existents balance against each other To reduce wrong And synergize with each other To make the most of each pair And what would not have existed itself. This is true for legitimate dualities. For illegitimate dualities Such as good and evil Or health and disease One is completely right and the other is completely wrong. And in case of legitimate dualities This is the way: Take what's good in each And combine them And stand uncompromisingly for that outcome.

    LXXI

    It's not a choice between modernity and tradition: Tradition grows through man's intellect and inspiration And by it is made the most it can be. Traditions improve By incorporating innovation And recognizing good in new ideas or external ideas And therefore become traditions that are worthy of the name. There are many traditions And many cultures And all grow and improve through innovation And become habitable through liberty And its consequent: Knowledge and wisdom And Beauty and Passion that are its fruit. The global cultural competition Acts like free-market economics: Putting pressure on cultures to produce the best outcome And become the best they can be. Even as the good ideas in component cultures Overcome bad ideas in each other While enriching each other with good ideas And thus growing in themselves And helping each other to grow. It's not a choice between present and tradition: The present improves the tradition And makes it more habitable for the people As well as rich in their thought and their feelings And lives of people in civilization get better While civilization grows and gets better And becomes civilization worthy of the name.

    LXXII

    The fact of human fallibility Means that no human entity is rightful in having absolute power But all must check each other Against wrong in each other While synergizing with each other to create rightfulness that did not exist before. When one set has power It makes errors peculiar to that set Even as it runs roughshod over everyone else. To have perspective outside the in-group Enhances the wisdom of the in-group And makes it more representative, intelligent and complete. This is true for all aspects of human existence And it is by encorporating all demographics and mindsets That errors are diminished Knowledge and wisdom are maximized And intelligent choices are made. This is as true for unofficial entities Like communities and societies As it is true for governments and business entities.

    LXXIII

    It makes no sense to design country free of official tyranny In order that unofficial tyranny Of entities unchecked, unbalanced and unaccountable And therefore tyrannical Take its place. It's not acceptable to follow laws that are unwritten Because those laws are not subject to accountabiliy And are therefore tyrannical And life and liberty demands not only rejecting such usurpations But standing up to them. All that defines people in reference to unofficial interest Is what expropriates people And creates conman's totalitarianism. That is a betrayal of liberty And betrayal of the Absolute.

    LXXIV

    There must be a real incentive On marital partners to treat each other rightly. There must be a real incentive On communities and societies to not be tyrranical. There must be a real incentive On civilization to honor individuality And thus to incorporate its fruit of innovation and excellence. The checks and balances that are on the government Must be extended on unofficial entities In order that they not remain tyrannical.

    LXXV

    The Absolute is the source of all that exists And His way is of reaching inside And alighting it in absolute experience. He can take anything of man and put it into His service. There is no person who cannot be touched by the Absolute. Through Absolute Experience, Absolute leads people to Him. And once in Absolute, It becomes possible to live absolutely. Out of Him flows true life In Him is true freedom And through Him is found absolute happiness. All these become absolute truths Of human existence When found in the Absolute And by real action of man Made practical and Absolute reality Of his life.

    Ilya Shambat.

    Voted for by Ilya Shambat.
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  • Only one absolute?

    As manofomens2 says: there is only 1 absolute.

    However we don't know what it is. We haven't figured it out yet. Presuming it to be a Giant Invisible Man is illogical. It is not even plausible based on what we have discovered about the nature of the universe by the application of reason and observation.

    As for "The Absolute exists within the Relative Which exists within the Absolute." using uppercase doesn't make a self contradicting predicate any less false.

    Voted for by TheDarknessVisible.
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