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Objective Goodness, part II

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Jun 21, 2024
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Photo: Amalanchier blossom, Sparkill, NY. April 13. This native tree is colloquially known as shadbush.

Of course the question comes up of what this "objective goodness“ is.

And this is a difficult question, because it consists of much finer energies than the ones our minds genuinely work with. The difficulty arises because the mind—the intellect as we use it to rationalize—generally works with substances of a coarser nature that have a lower rate of vibration and can only construct crude approximations of truth.

In our strange delusions created by the intellectual-centric nature of modern being, we take these delusions to be truth itself, without bothering to reconnect our sensation and feelings so that truth can become whole.

I’ll render an approximation which ought to be close enough for most purposes.

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