Riffin' On the Purpose of Culture

“Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever.” 1 Chronicles 16:34

We live in a dualistic material realm as a people, largely, this realm of concepts, any cultured people the world over. We’ve only ever known “life” conceptually as an isolated thing (as opposed to a definition by way of the absolute…which would define life as everything that is) that is stratified from “non-existence” as its utter opposite, and this is in and of itself a game…this is how concepts work…with some additional information/impeccable guidance one can understand quite clearly from this vantage point that thought, inevitably, human activity even, all activity…leads one to a singular destination, which is a meaningful Oneness with God, but they arrive by way of a path of meaningful differentiation…meaningful differentiation amidst a realm that is comprehensively moving towards a meaningful Oneness with Source…differentiations amidst a sample group whose respective ends are not meaningfully differentiated short of the retention of the personal identity and the memories of the life lived in the afterlife… at any moment all there is to assess is how close one is to their utterly inherited destiny, which, bafflingly, flows seamlessly out of their free will as acting agents within the simulation…this is no one-sided venture… we chart our various paths through the cosmos, via our lives, with the choices we do make, which themselves arose out of an inherited determinism that lodges itself into the level of personal preference…

        Life is all that there is. There is no non-existence. There is only awareness…and it grows into its own center, no matter what, as time progresses…as we mature. In this way, all are redeemed by…life…all are redeemed. Lucidity only ever grows as childhood is in the recede, and understanding is the fruit that adults and adults alone savor; it is the foundation of meaningful communion with the Father. It’s the reason cultural systems exist…why nation-states exist and have educational systems…is to give us a solid foundation to do this, to understand, precisely, in an effective way.

                Within a system of seeming opposites…in which there is still an illusion of non-existence, wisdom knows that it is not…but this is an exhausting path…it is the ultimate realization…knowledge is organized into social blurbs/memes the way that it is to try to induce the realization that there is only existence, no potential even for non-existence… this is why we run economies… even the institution of creating life is somewhat supplementary to this…within such a system, today’s passage deems the “Lord” as “good”, mentioning that his “love” “endures” “forever”.

                There’s some sense that morality flows out of universal truth in the larger culture… that what is good is based on…what is actually good…  if all is love as these spiritual types seem to suggest, then “all” “endures” “forever”, according to today’s passage. And such a vantage point is a very quick route to lucidity regarding society and this thing we call life.

                Within dualistic frameworks, a discerning rationale can flesh out the very image of God no matter what sample set and paradigms he’s working with…no matter what they are addressing at the moment…whether focusing on a broken pizza oven or the Scriptures themselves.

Some sort of change happens as we traverse this life. Too often we absolutely ideate the inherent grace of childhood, at the intentional chagrin of society, but almost no one would actually turn to a toddler as an example of actualization/maturity, of meaningful, sustainable happiness…

While childhood is imbued with grace, we are here to actualize…by becoming our pre-destined selves…and life does this for us no matter how refined or seemingly unrefined the culture is. It’s high time that we cultivated the perspective of just how miraculous the function of Time is…the flow of phenomena/experience… we’re already on the spirirually-driven path, and at best we merely can consciously resonate with what is actionable to our very hands in regards to the culture’s institutions and systems…

And as crazy as it sounds we only ever, ultimately, have one kind of experience…a profound enlightening one…