I read the intro to this site, and quite frankly it sucks. It is not different from so many countless others that present nothing of substance--full of relative terms with no firm anchor.
One of the most important statements about liberating the mind was given a long time ago, and I intend to defend it. "You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free."
I will defend it on the grounds that the ellipse "free" refers to "free to function", not "free from function." The human mind has a very specific job to perform and it does so by mastering language.
1, first one must "know thyself"
What are we? If one were gifted enough to solve for the name of the Beast in Revelation, then I would grant that one could answer this question, after all it is a puzzle that resolves to a metaphor about what we are. The shutter that turns the past into the future and the future into the past."
Every living organism lives by converting the environment into something else needed for that organism to survive-it crafts. So, let us make a definition of what an environmental acquisition system is.
An environmental acquisition system of a living organism is that system which must acquire something from the environment, process that which it has acquired for a product that sustains and promotes the life of the organism. I.e. these systems make it possible for us to have life and to have it more abundantly. Reference intended.
With this definition, one can find the "seven lights" of man, seven such systems which provide us with life.
1)The digestive system.
2) The respiratory system.
3) Ocular system.
4) Vestibular system.
5) Manipulative system.
6) Procreative system.
7) Judgmental system.
How well we think, how well we can perform judgment, determines how well we live. Or in metaphor, the Mark on the forehead determines the mark on the hand.
Since the mind is being developed to manipulate the environment, and it does so linguistically, in brief, freedom of mind comes through establishing a correspondence with symbolic representation and reality--an identity which is true.
Truth--the state of being true.
True--two are more things are said to be true when by some means of measure, no difference is found in the measures.
A wise man would see that I made my point.
Now, since the foundation of language is not yet known, I will defend the Two-Element metaphysics under development by some early Greeks, Plato among them, but lost in history--that is, if there is any real interest.
j.c.
