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The sky is blue until it isn't. This is not a constant as the process which provides us the illusion of a blue sky can be affected and the colour of it can be changed. Granted this is an extreme example as it would require us to significantly alter the composition of the atmosphere, but it is well within the realm of reality.

We wouldn't change our tradition until such a change occurs, but it is folly not to change it when it does. That is the point I am making. Strict adherence to written tradition would say "the ancient texts say our sky is blue and we will continue to act in accordance to that recorded truth" whereas any imbecile could look up and point to the new colour of the sky.

Our traditions can be very long-lived depending on which concept we anchor them to, but no anchor is eternal.

Truth itself is relative and circumstantial in many cases as I reject the concept of objective truth. The universe has shown itself too paradoxical for such a thing to be possible.

Symbolic tradition is largely useless as the purpose of tradition is to serve a purpose.

✠Angela Hitler✠ 2y ago

The sky is literally blue and for all intents and purposes, it will be forever. There are many things in the world just as unchanging as this, such as the necessity of food and water for life, the four seasons, etc.

There is nothing relative about it. Things actually don’t change that much. Maybe one day fundamental things will change, but only on a time scale so retardedly huge that traditions don’t actually last that long anyway, whether written or oral.

Your objection is either taking a whack perspective on relevant time scales, or is just schizo. I can’t tell which.

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Leaf Lord 2y ago

The sky is currently blue, but it will not be blue forever. There is no universal unchangeable constant which guarantees the colour of the sky as blue. Hell, changing the colour of the sky is something we could do with our current level of technology (it would kill all life on earth in the process, but that is besides the point). The colour that the sky takes depends on atmospheric composition. That's something which could be affected either by us or an externality within very workable time scales. Even in ways which don't destroy life.

Sure, you can fall back on time scales and say that, locally speaking, certain things are less likely to change in the immediate future. Mountains are unlikely to change place, until a catastrophic tectonic shift moves them. But that concedes that I am right and that there are no universal truths as something that is true until a distant point in time isn't a constant universal truth.

✠Angela Hitler✠ 2y ago

You’re going well outside the boundaries that traditions would be relevant within to justify relativity because you hate God and Jesus Christ.

✠Angela Hitler✠ 2y ago

Btw Jesus is coming back to judge you before the sky turns red, so the idea of the tradition theoretically becoming irrelevant over time is a hypothetical that I’m granting out of charity.