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Originally Posted by reverie
As an example take the physical senses, and how our experience is dependant on what we learn from them. What if you went to a university lecture with ear plugs? Or went to a play blindfolded? We would be limited in what we attained from those experiences, and therefore limited in what we learned.
This does not mean that one focus is greater than the other. And certainly does not mean that any certain one is useless to engage in. Imo it simply means we must engage in all our abilities and possibilities to further growth.
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This is a good example, but the fact is that
all our material experiences are very, very limited, no matter whether we are using all our faculties or hindering some of them. Our material senses are by nature imperfect, so anything we learn through them must be suspect. For example, a rainstorm can come and pour rain upon a city, and to that city's citizens it can seem as though the sun is completely covered. But the rainstorm is only a few miles wide, and beyond it the sun is shining brightly. This is how we are always being deluded by our senses and being brought to false conceptions of truth. We will always be limited because we are quantitatively inferior to God, but under the material condition our limitations are made all the more apparent.