EPISTEMOLOGY- HOW WE KNOW
Epistemology is the study of how we know what we know. It examines all the tricks of the mind and methods of rationalisation. When you start to take an interest in the software of how people think, the ways they perceive the world, and the limited analytical and critical thinking that is applied, you'll begin to see how many are asleep. Many individuals rationalise based on emotions or their perspective. We should consider the law of difference, even among our peers, whenever we meet someone. In the first instance, no two people have had the same life experiences, and we may not share the same sex. We may also belong to different age groups, cultures, religions, or social classes. Without recognising this background information, akin to the mathematical code of an algorithm, we miss out on a lot.
It significantly influences how we perceive the world, shaping our judgments from our unique perspectives, often in opposition to those of our neighbours. We might judge people or circumstances we don’t fully understand, mistakenly believing we are correct despite our ignorance. Even the fact that we grew up at different addresses on a geographical map exposed us to entirely different information, accompanied by our individual social advantages or disadvantages. It doesn’t matter whether you come from a poor family, a wealthy one of German descent, or Pacific Islanders; every small piece of information contributed to the software that shapes your reasoning today.
Even if we take one word, whatever that word is, it does not mean that the same picture evoked in your mind will also be the same image in someone else's mind. Not to mention the information we tend to gravitate towards. There is a significant difference in how we perceive information, let alone how we process it, before we even start labelling the world and forming judgments, all while believing we are 100% right most of the time. This is without considering the fundamental assumptions we've made that haven't been tested or that we've compared information from multiple perspectives while failing to realise that we view things from a unique vantage point that differs from our neighbour's and we think we know. When, in reality, it's just a perspective.
I have been exposed to many perspectives, as most people in my world come from a diverse range of views, much like the distance from the East to the West. This has made me question how we know. I have a deep-seated fascination stemming from an eternal perspective that holds significance for all people, whether they know it in the dimension of thought or not. Everything eternal resides in the spirit, yet while we are on Earth, one can take a trillion different paths guided solely by thought. If this is the case, and the way we reason shapes our destiny, we should consider the importance of understanding how we know what we know. We need to investigate the logic behind someone’s worldview, examine the premises upon which they base their ideas, and determine whether these can be proven to align with the truth, which I believe they can.
There is so much we do not understand about life, and we will never encounter all there is to know within time and space simply because it is so comprehensive. We begin to realise that there are deeper dimensions we haven't even reached in our understanding, yet that information exists even though we do not yet know it. Consider the perspective of a five-year-old compared to a well-versed 80-year-old. She has been through her own school of what she needed to learn, whether she truly learnt the lessons meant to impart wisdom and understanding for the higher dimensions of life. Only God knows that information.
We cannot fully comprehend the software of all that she was meant to learn. Still, the all-seeing and knowing God, who possesses profound understanding far beyond our limited grasp, is the only one able to judge her in righteousness and truth. No one else has that perspective; even those who believed they knew her could not fully appreciate the depth of her existence—only God can. What happens on this earth is that we often become ensnared in our limited perspectives, which can be incredibly misguided. We have varying ideas about how we should live, and at times, we view those who differ from us through a lens that suggests we should all live in the same way. Yet, God created a rich tapestry of colours; the differing geographies, plant and animal life, vegetation, and environmental conditions of nations reveal His diversity. From the intricate design of a snowflake to the dense foliage of the Amazon rainforest, the desert storms in Egypt, the rugged mountains, and the diverse groups of people across generations, God's scope of imagination and intelligence is so vast and profound that we can hardly grasp it until we know as Christ in eternal realms.
What is obtainable in heaven vastly differs from what we see on this earth. Yet this all-knowing God, full of love for His creation, cares about how we perceive information because it shapes our lives and the lives of all beyond the grave. That’s why He says, "Come reason with Me." God is not confined, as we can see from the magnificent diversity of people throughout all generations, each carrying a unique expression of Him. This is why we need to wake up and be aware of the magnificence evident in others and in the way He has fashioned us. However, developing our critical and analytical thinking skills to question everything is what God desires for us all. We are encouraged to explore new dimensions of thought and to uncover the software in our unconscious mind, recognising patterns of hidden assumptions and the concepts we use in our reasoning, comparing them with other views to uncover where our information comes from and how we know it
Did it come from the spirit? Did it come from the realm of sense? Did it come from a life experience? Did it come from traditions? Did it come from god, a man of previous generations? Is the idea serving you and your highest purpose? There are some ideas people entertain, yet they are strangers. Just like you wouldn’t allow strangers access, you should test every idea with the same level of caution until it has been proven that it stands on the truth and can never be unchanged. Everything in the spirit is permanent. Everything in the physical is passing away. Even studying the name of virtues such as empathy, kindness, justice, and love, have you thought of these as an energy that has been identified with certain characteristics that we can know what realm it comes from? This is another way of questioning how we all know the virtue of kindness.
It is an attitude of the heart that comes from the unseen, yet we must make it visible. We cannot touch or taste it unless it manifests through physical products or services. How do we know what kindness and empathy are? How do they differ? This is like observing colour in the physical world; we can distinguish pink from orange or yellow. Will we all point to yellow and recognise it? Might some people have a different opinion and say it is black? You can’t unless you are blind. That is the battle we fight in the spirit, which is that people will recognise and distinguish the eternal, everlasting God. But to see, they need the illumination of truth that brings life.
Written by Rochelle White
Epistemology is the study of how we know what we know. It examines all the tricks of the mind and methods of rationalisation. When you start to take an interest in the software of how people think, the ways they perceive the world, and the limited analytical and critical thinking that is applied, you'll begin to see how many are asleep. Many individuals rationalise based on emotions or their perspective. We should consider the law of difference, even among our peers, whenever we meet someone. In the first instance, no two people have had the same life experiences, and we may not share the same sex. We may also belong to different age groups, cultures, religions, or social classes. Without recognising this background information, akin to the mathematical code of an algorithm, we miss out on a lot.
It significantly influences how we perceive the world, shaping our judgments from our unique perspectives, often in opposition to those of our neighbours. We might judge people or circumstances we don’t fully understand, mistakenly believing we are correct despite our ignorance. Even the fact that we grew up at different addresses on a geographical map exposed us to entirely different information, accompanied by our individual social advantages or disadvantages. It doesn’t matter whether you come from a poor family, a wealthy one of German descent, or Pacific Islanders; every small piece of information contributed to the software that shapes your reasoning today.
Even if we take one word, whatever that word is, it does not mean that the same picture evoked in your mind will also be the same image in someone else's mind. Not to mention the information we tend to gravitate towards. There is a significant difference in how we perceive information, let alone how we process it, before we even start labelling the world and forming judgments, all while believing we are 100% right most of the time. This is without considering the fundamental assumptions we've made that haven't been tested or that we've compared information from multiple perspectives while failing to realise that we view things from a unique vantage point that differs from our neighbour's and we think we know. When, in reality, it's just a perspective.
I have been exposed to many perspectives, as most people in my world come from a diverse range of views, much like the distance from the East to the West. This has made me question how we know. I have a deep-seated fascination stemming from an eternal perspective that holds significance for all people, whether they know it in the dimension of thought or not. Everything eternal resides in the spirit, yet while we are on Earth, one can take a trillion different paths guided solely by thought. If this is the case, and the way we reason shapes our destiny, we should consider the importance of understanding how we know what we know. We need to investigate the logic behind someone’s worldview, examine the premises upon which they base their ideas, and determine whether these can be proven to align with the truth, which I believe they can.
There is so much we do not understand about life, and we will never encounter all there is to know within time and space simply because it is so comprehensive. We begin to realise that there are deeper dimensions we haven't even reached in our understanding, yet that information exists even though we do not yet know it. Consider the perspective of a five-year-old compared to a well-versed 80-year-old. She has been through her own school of what she needed to learn, whether she truly learnt the lessons meant to impart wisdom and understanding for the higher dimensions of life. Only God knows that information.
We cannot fully comprehend the software of all that she was meant to learn. Still, the all-seeing and knowing God, who possesses profound understanding far beyond our limited grasp, is the only one able to judge her in righteousness and truth. No one else has that perspective; even those who believed they knew her could not fully appreciate the depth of her existence—only God can. What happens on this earth is that we often become ensnared in our limited perspectives, which can be incredibly misguided. We have varying ideas about how we should live, and at times, we view those who differ from us through a lens that suggests we should all live in the same way. Yet, God created a rich tapestry of colours; the differing geographies, plant and animal life, vegetation, and environmental conditions of nations reveal His diversity. From the intricate design of a snowflake to the dense foliage of the Amazon rainforest, the desert storms in Egypt, the rugged mountains, and the diverse groups of people across generations, God's scope of imagination and intelligence is so vast and profound that we can hardly grasp it until we know as Christ in eternal realms.
What is obtainable in heaven vastly differs from what we see on this earth. Yet this all-knowing God, full of love for His creation, cares about how we perceive information because it shapes our lives and the lives of all beyond the grave. That’s why He says, "Come reason with Me." God is not confined, as we can see from the magnificent diversity of people throughout all generations, each carrying a unique expression of Him. This is why we need to wake up and be aware of the magnificence evident in others and in the way He has fashioned us. However, developing our critical and analytical thinking skills to question everything is what God desires for us all. We are encouraged to explore new dimensions of thought and to uncover the software in our unconscious mind, recognising patterns of hidden assumptions and the concepts we use in our reasoning, comparing them with other views to uncover where our information comes from and how we know it
Did it come from the spirit? Did it come from the realm of sense? Did it come from a life experience? Did it come from traditions? Did it come from god, a man of previous generations? Is the idea serving you and your highest purpose? There are some ideas people entertain, yet they are strangers. Just like you wouldn’t allow strangers access, you should test every idea with the same level of caution until it has been proven that it stands on the truth and can never be unchanged. Everything in the spirit is permanent. Everything in the physical is passing away. Even studying the name of virtues such as empathy, kindness, justice, and love, have you thought of these as an energy that has been identified with certain characteristics that we can know what realm it comes from? This is another way of questioning how we all know the virtue of kindness.
It is an attitude of the heart that comes from the unseen, yet we must make it visible. We cannot touch or taste it unless it manifests through physical products or services. How do we know what kindness and empathy are? How do they differ? This is like observing colour in the physical world; we can distinguish pink from orange or yellow. Will we all point to yellow and recognise it? Might some people have a different opinion and say it is black? You can’t unless you are blind. That is the battle we fight in the spirit, which is that people will recognise and distinguish the eternal, everlasting God. But to see, they need the illumination of truth that brings life.
Written by Rochelle White
EPISTEMOLOGY- HOW WE KNOW
Epistemology is the study of how we know what we know. It examines all the tricks of the mind and methods of rationalisation. When you start to take an interest in the software of how people think, the ways they perceive the world, and the limited analytical and critical thinking that is applied, you'll begin to see how many are asleep. Many individuals rationalise based on emotions or their perspective. We should consider the law of difference, even among our peers, whenever we meet someone. In the first instance, no two people have had the same life experiences, and we may not share the same sex. We may also belong to different age groups, cultures, religions, or social classes. Without recognising this background information, akin to the mathematical code of an algorithm, we miss out on a lot.
It significantly influences how we perceive the world, shaping our judgments from our unique perspectives, often in opposition to those of our neighbours. We might judge people or circumstances we don’t fully understand, mistakenly believing we are correct despite our ignorance. Even the fact that we grew up at different addresses on a geographical map exposed us to entirely different information, accompanied by our individual social advantages or disadvantages. It doesn’t matter whether you come from a poor family, a wealthy one of German descent, or Pacific Islanders; every small piece of information contributed to the software that shapes your reasoning today.
Even if we take one word, whatever that word is, it does not mean that the same picture evoked in your mind will also be the same image in someone else's mind. Not to mention the information we tend to gravitate towards. There is a significant difference in how we perceive information, let alone how we process it, before we even start labelling the world and forming judgments, all while believing we are 100% right most of the time. This is without considering the fundamental assumptions we've made that haven't been tested or that we've compared information from multiple perspectives while failing to realise that we view things from a unique vantage point that differs from our neighbour's and we think we know. When, in reality, it's just a perspective.
I have been exposed to many perspectives, as most people in my world come from a diverse range of views, much like the distance from the East to the West. This has made me question how we know. I have a deep-seated fascination stemming from an eternal perspective that holds significance for all people, whether they know it in the dimension of thought or not. Everything eternal resides in the spirit, yet while we are on Earth, one can take a trillion different paths guided solely by thought. If this is the case, and the way we reason shapes our destiny, we should consider the importance of understanding how we know what we know. We need to investigate the logic behind someone’s worldview, examine the premises upon which they base their ideas, and determine whether these can be proven to align with the truth, which I believe they can.
There is so much we do not understand about life, and we will never encounter all there is to know within time and space simply because it is so comprehensive. We begin to realise that there are deeper dimensions we haven't even reached in our understanding, yet that information exists even though we do not yet know it. Consider the perspective of a five-year-old compared to a well-versed 80-year-old. She has been through her own school of what she needed to learn, whether she truly learnt the lessons meant to impart wisdom and understanding for the higher dimensions of life. Only God knows that information.
We cannot fully comprehend the software of all that she was meant to learn. Still, the all-seeing and knowing God, who possesses profound understanding far beyond our limited grasp, is the only one able to judge her in righteousness and truth. No one else has that perspective; even those who believed they knew her could not fully appreciate the depth of her existence—only God can. What happens on this earth is that we often become ensnared in our limited perspectives, which can be incredibly misguided. We have varying ideas about how we should live, and at times, we view those who differ from us through a lens that suggests we should all live in the same way. Yet, God created a rich tapestry of colours; the differing geographies, plant and animal life, vegetation, and environmental conditions of nations reveal His diversity. From the intricate design of a snowflake to the dense foliage of the Amazon rainforest, the desert storms in Egypt, the rugged mountains, and the diverse groups of people across generations, God's scope of imagination and intelligence is so vast and profound that we can hardly grasp it until we know as Christ in eternal realms.
What is obtainable in heaven vastly differs from what we see on this earth. Yet this all-knowing God, full of love for His creation, cares about how we perceive information because it shapes our lives and the lives of all beyond the grave. That’s why He says, "Come reason with Me." God is not confined, as we can see from the magnificent diversity of people throughout all generations, each carrying a unique expression of Him. This is why we need to wake up and be aware of the magnificence evident in others and in the way He has fashioned us. However, developing our critical and analytical thinking skills to question everything is what God desires for us all. We are encouraged to explore new dimensions of thought and to uncover the software in our unconscious mind, recognising patterns of hidden assumptions and the concepts we use in our reasoning, comparing them with other views to uncover where our information comes from and how we know it
Did it come from the spirit? Did it come from the realm of sense? Did it come from a life experience? Did it come from traditions? Did it come from god, a man of previous generations? Is the idea serving you and your highest purpose? There are some ideas people entertain, yet they are strangers. Just like you wouldn’t allow strangers access, you should test every idea with the same level of caution until it has been proven that it stands on the truth and can never be unchanged. Everything in the spirit is permanent. Everything in the physical is passing away. Even studying the name of virtues such as empathy, kindness, justice, and love, have you thought of these as an energy that has been identified with certain characteristics that we can know what realm it comes from? This is another way of questioning how we all know the virtue of kindness.
It is an attitude of the heart that comes from the unseen, yet we must make it visible. We cannot touch or taste it unless it manifests through physical products or services. How do we know what kindness and empathy are? How do they differ? This is like observing colour in the physical world; we can distinguish pink from orange or yellow. Will we all point to yellow and recognise it? Might some people have a different opinion and say it is black? You can’t unless you are blind. That is the battle we fight in the spirit, which is that people will recognise and distinguish the eternal, everlasting God. But to see, they need the illumination of truth that brings life.
Written by Rochelle White
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