Can philosophy/words inquire into the Immeasurable?
Hello,
I wonder, can words, thought, logic ever lead consciousness to the perception of the eternal/ground of being?
Words can prove apparently anything one is inclined to and one chooses to prove - whether that choice is prompted by unconscious conditioning, temperamental inclinations or other factors, which one is perhaps not aware of.
But once one gets or hears such a ‘proof’ (such as the existence of God, or its non-existence), then what?
Either one holds on onto that, one becomes a believer in it or a preacher of it, or at some point one gets tired of it - since it perhaps does not give one more than cerebral stimulation - and one switches camps and one clings to an opposite proof, or one carefully fabricates the proof mathematically, as I have seen the author of a message doing, while another, more clever person comes along and dis-proves it…
and so one keeps on navigating, sailing while being blown about by unknown winds.
But one’s life, remains essentially as it is, though one’s intellect might get a bit more knowledgeable and polished and so, at times, somewhat arrogantly clever.
So I wonder, is our interest in philosophy, forever moving in the enclosure of the ‘word’ and its manipulation, or does it ever lead to something original, self-created and not merely just another ‘God’, created in man’s image?
I found the below text, you might be interested to reflect on.
Regards, jbji
“The unknown is not measurable by the known. Time cannot measure the timeless, the eternal, that immensity which has no beginning and no end. But our minds are bound to the yardstick of yesterday, today and tomorrow, and with that yardstick we try to inquire into the unknown, to measure that which is not measurable. And when we try to measure something which is not measurable, we only get caught in words.”
— J. Krishnamurti, New Delhi 1970
beyondthemind.net/krishnamurti-index.html