(February 9, 2014 at 12:02 pm)jideoni charles Wrote: Throughout the world, through all civilizations and through the ages till date, the story of 'The Elephant And The Three/Six Blindmen' has been related to further reinforce the popular misconception that God can never be comprehended in His absoluteness, but only from the individual's limited relative perspective.
And this position serves as a premise for the erroneous assumption that God is a mystery, that no humam genius is all-embracing enough to be able to fully grasp the God-Head essence in His wholeness and completeness.
To sum up this faulty line of reasoning, we would infer that man's God, up till now, is nothing short of man's ignorance; put more clearly, it will be apt for us to say that man knows nothing about the God he claims to be serving.
And it follows therefore, that a God that is a mystery to man, i.e. a God that man knows nothing about, how does man know that such a Being exists?
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From the lips of an actual blind person, that is not how perception works, for ANYONE. We take both the perceptions of others along with our own view of "realness". My friend Aaron know the sky is blue because was told its blue. However he knows the sun is hot because he can feel it on his face. The world is built through both observation and experience not one or the other.Through my blindness I find that my idea of reality is changed. I don't have quite as many pre-conceived notions about the world. Instead of taking the world at a glance and making a swift judgment I must wait, listen, touch( if I can) and carefully evaluate my surroundings. For instance if I hear running water I cannot automatically assume there is actual water near me. I must wait. See if anyone else notices water. Check for the smell of water. Or notice water by touch. Otherwise the sound of water could just be a recording of running water. I never really noticed how the loss of one sense drastically alters whether I am neutral, passive, or active in my judgement calls.
