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“The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”–Nadine Gordimer

If everything were light, we'd be blinded. If everything were darkness, we would see nothing. It is the skillful blend of light with darkness that enables sight. The golden glow of a small candle. The momentary shade of an upraised hand. The lengthening shadows of the red autumn sunset.

If “time”, or whatever we wanna call this constant flow of Becoming, suddenly stopped, the world would not be a freeze frame of static objects. Birds and planes and butterflies halted in midair. No.. It would simply vanish into nothingness. The light waves would cease traveling across space. The electromagnetic and atomic and gravitational forces would no longer be exerting themselves on other objects. Indeed, nothing at all would be happening, even the duration of particles and objects being the same. Our cartoon space would collapse in on itself. And the vibrant flux of our own consciousness would simply vanish. This ever running movie we find ourselves embedded in would instantly end, and being anything would suddenly become impossible. What does this mean? It means the flow is everything. It is the source of all continuity and interconnection and unity and understanding. There are no such thing as objects. Only events. Some events happen very slowly, over a billion of years, while others happen in a split second. But everything is but a ripple in the oceanic Flow of Being.

Deathbed advice #128: "Never ever put down "jailhouse snitch" as one of your past jobs on your resume."

Deathbed advice # 15: "If you ever move to Oregon, it's ok to buy an umbrella. Just make sure to keep it well hidden and don't ever get caught using it."

Having a worldview always makes the world you experience and live in seem to behave exactly like what your worldview believes and predicts. This is due to the fact that the worldview constantly sustains its validity by prompting us to take note of only those events and phenomena that align with it. This is as much true of science as it is in religion. Of physicalism as much as supernaturalism. The worldview essentially acts as a filter screening out anything that would contradict it and confining our attention only to those things that confirm it. Otherwise known as confirmation bias. Reality in itself however is far beyond what any worldview can precisely frame it to be. It is wild and unpredictable and surprising to anyone who dares to live outside of a worldview, if that is even possible.

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“And there is no question that we are preoccupied by dying. But why? It is because when we die, we leave behind not only the world but also death. That is the paradox of the last hour. Death works with us in the world; it is a power that humanizes nature, that raises existence to being, and it is within each one of us as our most human quality; it is death only in the world - man only knows death because he is man, and he is only man because he is death in the process of becoming. But to die is to shatter the world; it is the loss of person, the annihilation of the being; and so it is also the loss of death, the loss of what in it and for me made it death. As long as I live, I am a mortal man, but when I die, by ceasing to be man I also cease to be mortal, I am no longer capable of dying, and my impending death horrifies me because I see it as it is: no longer death, but the impossibility of dying.”― Maurice Blanchot, Literature and the Right to Death

So worldviews that run counter to reality simply ignore reality. And worldviews that account for reality have no need to ignore anything.

"Reality in itself however is far beyond what any worldview can precisely frame it to be. It is wild and unpredictable and surprising to anyone who dares to live outside of a worldview, if that is even possible."

"Account for" is not "precisely frame."

No worldview can account for Reality and how it is.