Phoenix
by Dale J. Sprague
White Papers
Free Thinker
There is no reasoning with one who is not a free'thinker; only amelioration or appeasement.
We have two brains, left and right, which are capable of mutually exclusive points of view within a dichotomous realm. Within this realm, theism may be biased as many or one. The center of one's self may be a unifying belief or attributes of one's independent self. Creatively, one may innovate upon or create new. Dimensionally, there is multi or single. Personal frames of reference may be sociocentric or iocentric. A function may be discontinuous or continuous. Generations may evolve or be spontaneous. Information may be aspect or global. Information conduction may be parallel or serial. Information processing...differentiated or integrated. Perception of light may be as particle or wave. Logic may be deductive or inductive. Love...agape or eros. Numbers may be rational or irrational. One may be a Democrat or a Republican. Absolutes may be zero or infinity. Religious testament...New or Old, and time...past'future or present.
Left brain science works for objectivity, but if held exclusively, insensitivity to one's environment results. Art works subjectively, but if maintained exclusively, alienation from one's environment is inevitable, which is alienation from one's source of inspiration.
Truth can be objective or subjective; it is a matter of valuing each..equally. With equal values comes a dichotomy of both and the incapability of being biased by one or the other. This understanding of bias, however, does not preclude the need to hold a bias as enviable or sacrosanct.
Out of instinct for survival, and all its concerns, we are hard'wired..we are compelled to act and subsequently to think. Because of this, to be a free thinker is a ponderous endeavor. Only with understanding of these concerns or biases, may we achieve a way that enables one to move freely between points of view, or when necessary, to create one new. Expressing bias, thinking with bias is inevitable and necessary, but only a free'thinker knows that it is a bias.
The position of a free'thinker is that there are only two absolutes...zero and infinity; all else is a point of view, no matter how vital, how compelling, or how ever much desired.