{"id":1774,"date":"2014-04-29T14:04:34","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T22:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2014-04-29T14:04:34","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T22:04:34","slug":"the-ultimate-truth-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1774","title":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Truth (Not)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alas, after decades of considering what\u2019s what, it\u2019s not so much that I don\u2019t know\u2014that\u2019s true\u2014but I am quite sure that the \u201ceverything\u201d cannot be known. Now there\u2019s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/apophatic\">apophatic<\/a> stance that invites dispute!<\/p>\n<p>I guess I agree with the postmodernist view that it\u2019s all co-created. There are no objective standards that transcend our co-creation. More, what we create will likely need to be re-evaluated and re-created further by the next generation or the one after that. This is just the way it goes. There is no shame in creating something that was better than before\u2014or so it seems\u2014but yet may be surpassed by something our kids come up with. <\/p>\n<p>This is uncomfortable for those who want final answers. It\u2019s positively immoral in the minds of&#160; those who think there are answers and we just aren\u2019t following them! But those believers are blind to the fact that the answers they seen are the interpretations of rule by people they believe, and others don\u2019t agree with those interpretations, or the authority of their interpreters. That the rules themselves might be interpretations by fallible interpreters seems beyond the imagination of true believers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alas, after decades of considering what\u2019s what, it\u2019s not so much that I don\u2019t know\u2014that\u2019s true\u2014but I am quite sure that the \u201ceverything\u201d cannot be known. Now there\u2019s an apophatic stance that invites dispute! I guess I agree with the postmodernist view that it\u2019s all co-created. There are no objective standards that transcend our co-creation. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-spirituality-and-philosophy","category-wisdom-ing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1775,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions\/1775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}