We are misled by arithmetic, where, according to the rules there is one and only one \u201cright\u201d answer. We absorb this as ultimately true. Things we come to believe cannot have multiple explanations—there can only be one true answer. But consider that there may be multiple valid answers; there may be more than one \u201ctruth.\u201d <\/p>\n
This leads into an explanation of my drawings and explanations. The problem is that there are no single explanations, no \u201cone\u201d truth. There are many sub-truths that are useful to some but not all.People are more or less ready for a kind of \u201caha\u201d that \u201cexplains\u201d it. But what if there are several meanings, all true, each at its own level or from its own viewpoint.<\/p>\n
That of course is not<\/strong> the way truth operates in the old paradigm. The truth grabs you by the figurative collar and says \u201cthis!\u201d which is too often taken as \u201cThis Only!\u201d or, worse, \u201cOnly This!\u201d<\/p>\n What if God is sorta doing it but need us as brain-cell-equivalents to say \u201cLook what you did!\u201d We help give God some words: You did this. God then says, \u201cDid I? Pretty good. But don\u2019t take it literally. I also meant that!\u201d We puny-brained humans say, \u201cWell which is it, this or that?\u201d And God says, \u201cBoth.\u201d It\u2019s hard to digest, I know, but truly, both\u2014or to interpret differently, neither. It\u2019s complicated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are misled by arithmetic, where, according to the rules there is one and only one \u201cright\u201d answer. We absorb this as ultimately true. Things we come to believe cannot have multiple explanations—there can only be one true answer. But consider that there may be multiple valid answers; there may be more than one \u201ctruth.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,20,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-papers","category-follies","category-spirituality-and-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530"}],"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=2530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2531,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions\/2531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}