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An Epistemological Love Letter
Information is central to our lives in ways ranging from spirituality to our ability to provide for ourselves.
The following is an epistemological love letter, discussing what knowledge means to us as humans.
God is in everything. It’s a contention that won’t find much opposition in most religions. Monotheistic religions are naturally given to this, because God’s scope in these philosophies is unlimited and ubiquitous. In polytheistic religions, it becomes a little more nuanced, but there is a god, or some offshoot of their works, in everything. For philosophies that don’t put the existence as a whole directly in the hands of a deity (or deities), such as Taoism, we still see an enchantment of the whole, perhaps even more directly, as all is accepted and spiritualized. For the atheist, agnostic, existentialist, and their ilk, I will say that this grand, eternal infinitude that is our physical reality, if it is not called God, it is cause of a difference in preferred appellation, not criteria — but whether it be the unnameable Tao, or the “physical reality,” it is all-encompassing and therefore we have all we need to proceed.
What more is spirituality than a connection, or the sensation of a connection, to a grander plane of existence? And if everything has spiritual…
