I don’t think pilgrim seeker was referring to you, but the board in general:
You are the least arrogant and mentally blocked on here, which is why we are friends.
No, he’s saying that any assessment of reality without experience is blah blah meaningless garbage. He’s saying object + subject constitute reality.
“Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it” - John Keats
Pilgrim seeker is someone whom I’ve disengaged with because I’m not sure how to take him either. It began ok, but then he seemed to snap at me. It could be an innocent artifact of how he talks, which could be why he peppers his posts with emoticons. Idk…
But yeah, there is a lot of arrogance on display here. People just want to be right and aren’t so much concerned with truth. That’s part of the meaning of the Sounds of Silence.
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said “The words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sounds of silence”
Truth falls on deaf ears because people have no regard for the bland, but prefer the egoic neon.
Or we could say that Galileo wanted to reveal truth that the church wished to hide for its own perverted reasons, so not to disturb the sound of silence.
Taken from the Genius site genius.com/1938673