The plan: Drive Devils Backbone, snap a few photos, and write a post about vacation views. I should have looked at the map and checked the weather.
Oh well. On to Plan B.
I'll still blog about view. But with a slightly different connotation...
One of my docs once told me an anecdote about 100 blind people being led to an elephant and being asked to describe it.
One described a long tube with a wet end. Another was tickled by a feather at the end of a rope. Another felt the wind from a fan
The descriptions continued one after another. No two descriptions were exactly the same.
Which one was correct?
They all were.
The wet tube was the nose after being dipped into water. The rope and feather was the tail. The moving air was caused by the flapping of ears. And so on.
The story points to the fact that our experience, knowledge base, and point of view colors our perception. As we experience different things, learn more, and change our points of view our perceptions may also change.
What doesn't change is the elephant.
Truth is like the elephant. Our perception of Truth may be colored by our experience, knowledge base, or point of view; however, although we may change, the Truth remains unchanged.
I heard the elephant story before. I like it. It's true. We all see what is in front of us, not always getting to the deeper meaning.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. It's too often the easy, lazy way. Thanks for the read.
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