John Brodix Merryman Jr.
1 min readSep 17, 2024

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The problem with monotheism is that ideals are not absolute.

Truth, beauty, platonic forms are ideals. The core codes, creeds, heroes, narratives at the gravitational center of every culture are ideals.

The universal, on the other hand, is the elemental.

So a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which life rises, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which it fell. The light shining through the film, than the stories playing out on it.

Morality is not absolute, as it couldn't be transgressed, if it were. Like a temperature below absolute zero.

Morals are the ideals, the beliefs, habits, codes, relationships, etc. that enable a healthy and functional community.

Traditionally that one's status be a function of what one adds, not what one can extract. Which is why modern culture seems so necrotic.

Humanity originated and evolved for millions of years in fairly moderately sized tribal communities and only in the last several thousand years has grown to the global phenomenon of nation states of millions of people.

Which is quite short in evolutionary terms, so it is a work in progress.

https://medium.com/@johnbrodixmerrymanjr/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-western-mind-906dc73cffe2

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Having an affair with life. It's complicated.

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