Where do you begin? Where do you not begin?

          If there is a place from which everything can be seen …and from beginning to ending, all other points of view are meaningless.   

If there is such a place, short term and long term views are not only relative, they are irrelevant.

From a philosophical point of view, it could be said that this is the reason humans invented different “Gods”, but – and this is just in case, for those who are stuck in the point of view that the only “God” is the one in the minds of mankind – again, IF, there really is a “God” (by whatever other title or name), beyond the mind of man, such a view not only leads mankind away from “God” but also misses out on “God’s” point of view.

If the foregoing could be the beginning point of dialogue without argument, based on narrow points of view, perhaps mankind could discover the real “God” and not the invented one.

This is someones invention of God, is it yours too?

Fat chance! Language, with each word meaning too many different things to too many different people keep us trapped, each in the creations of our own mind. Is there an escape? Yes, but only through minds that are renewed. Otherwise we have the same lament as the one who wrote Ecclesiastes, which I have put in my own paraphrase below:

Life passes in a fog and attempting to understand it is useless; everything is nothing more than man’s excessive pride in his own opinions.

What good does it do anyone to think so hard over and over, sun up to sundown? All this effort to gain so little ground?

One group says one thing without understanding and another group objects without any attempt to understand …all because of vanity and, meanwhile, the earth continues to spin on its axis while orbiting the sun, appearing as morning to one group, but to another, which cannot agree because, from its point of view it is afternoon and neither group seeing that they are only points of view, neither having the ultimate truth it believes belongs to it exclusively.

The wind travels one way and then another, over and over. All rivers flow into the sea,
but the sea is never full.

All this is nothing more than tiresome words, yet can any of us stop speaking or thinking and all from such finite points of view? Who has seen the world from all sides and seen all parts simultaneously, even from the moon and beyond?

Change your point of view, it’s easier than you think.

Therefore, who can say they have seen enough? Who has heard and felt the vibrations of the universe and can say, “I have heard all there is to hear and felt all there is to feel?” Who can be so arrogant?

What has been done will be repeated because nothing is original, but merely history repeating itself. Every idea has already been expressed and has been with us throughout all of history.

Accounts of historical events are constantly being revised, because they don’t fit into the thoughts of those who prefer to see them differently, how can dialogue, therefore, ever be meaningful?

It might be fun to try, but then that is only one point of view.

bc

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