Written by Mathew Naismith
I wrote the following for an IONS site but had a feeling to
blog and share this more.
"There is a
purpose to all that is, what that is has different and varied interpretations
but no matter what the interpretation of what purpose that is there is still a
purpose. One should always focus on the purpose itself, not on the
interpretation of the purpose."
I wrote this when I
was invited to a private Google community, at the point this came into my head,
we were talking about friends but it relates to many different spheres of life
I believe.
I believe one of the
spheres or concepts this covers is science and spirituality, the interpretation
relates to the reasoning and logics used and if we are too focused on the
interpretation being used, we just might miss the purpose........
Both science and
spiritually aware people can and do miss this purpose because they are too
focused on the interpretation of such purpose instead of on the purpose itself.
Dogma is an ugly thing in any ideological principle.
Interpreting in this case relates to our concepts or
ideological principles we use in everyday life, through interpreting, we are
supposed to become more aware but because we become so fixated to our own ideologies
what we became aware of is limited. I believe once we start to interpret our purpose
we become dogmatic to some extent at least, however on the other hand, if we
only focused on the purpose instead of the interpretation of such purpose, becoming
dogmatic wouldn’t become an issue.
To me dogmatism doesn’t belong in any concept or ideological
principles.
