/lit/ - Literature

>>22038075
Liberalism doesn't come from Christianity, it comes from how the universe, life, and consciousness actually works.

The fundamental dialectic in politics is permanence vs. change, which is reflected in the history of metaphysics as substance vs. process.

A focus on permanence is simultaneously a focus on what makes something intrinsically separate from the rest of existence: what remains untouched by its dynamic interactions with reality.

The Christian God is defined as timeless and unchanging. The desire of Christianity is for eternal permanence in a condition of unchanging bliss with God.

A focus on change is simultaneously a focus on relationships, as change (motion) is a relational phenomenon; "change in itself" is incoherent.

The conservative view of truth involves uncovering timeless, perfect, unchanging truth and endlessly obeying and preserving it.

The liberal view of truth acknowledges that truth and learning is a dynamic and changing process as new facts are continually created and need to be accounted for. Science is epistemologically liberal, which is why only six percent of American scientists are Republicans.

We now know that the universe isn't a mostly timeless, unchanging terrain, but instead a dynamic and evolutionary process. Anti-evolutionary sentiment has everything to do with contradicting a conservative obsession with permanence - an obsession that ultimately comes from cowardice and a desire to eliminate all uncertainty.

..."We do not know what mystery awaits us in the very next moment. But we can be sure we will be astonished and enchanted. This entire universe sprang forth into existence from a single numinous speck. Our origin is a mystery; our destiny is intimate community with all that is; and our common species' aim is to celebrate the Great Joy which has drawn us into itself."

Rocks, soils, waves, stars - as they tell their story in 10,000 languages throughout the planet, they bind us to them in our emotions, our spirits, our minds, and our bodies. The Earth and the universe speak in all of this. The cosmic creation story is the way in which the universe is inaugurating the next era of its ongoing journey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWnA4XLrMWA

>>20427229
And wipe ourselves out in the process.
The eros of the universe is dynamic change. If you want to truly follow "nature's intent," seek to forever change yourself - to overcome your own expectations and grasp towards The Unknown.