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Ptolemy DCLVIII
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"I don't know, and you don't either."
This idea is rather humorous, no?
But can you be sure you don't know? Perhaps you really do know, but don't know that you know.
Define "know". Perhaps there was some nuance to the Greek's "gno~s" that has been lost over time... and two avowed agnostics may very well disagree as to what it is that is not known.
Solipsism, (in)finity, and subjectivity all conspire to render external truths difficult to behold. However, spirituality (etc.) is generally an internal matter and therefore the theory that no one knows cannot be verified in practice, so one can at best approach agnostic_agnosticism.
Person A feels they "know" there is a Goddess looking out for them. Person B feels they "know" they are the God of Bubbling Lava Lamps. Person C feels they "know" there is nothing more to existence than the realm described by physics. Person D feels they don't know. And unto Person E, something wholly different.
What if they are all correct?
I am not opposed to the idea that there are mutually exclusive truths (paradoxes).
I am not opposed to the idea that Existence contains forces so foreign to my earth-based-self that I cannot begin to imagine while here.
I am not opposed to the idea that what I "know" is spiritually true for me is also spiritually false for you.
Frankly, I fail to grasp why everyone finds such thinking so thoroughly annoying. Does not this pan-existential* approach empower us all to work with whatever understanding we have of our inner forces?
To no one's surprise, I have a lot more to say about such things. Fortunately for everyone, I currently lack the energy to go on about this.
"It_all_exists."
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