Truth and Perfection

...don't quit me now.



Language is interesting - this is a plea, a prayer. The phrase is both appropriate to a leader addressing underlings, or to a servant to their master, or even a commandant to a one or to the organization over them.



...abandon not what your hands have built.



The same original phrase, worded differently. not quite the same diversity of appropriate application. a different perspective.



...the works of your hands let not fall.



Closer to the original text. Kind of brings a moment of wonder. maybe a meaning of "endure what you have created", but not quite so dismal.



In context the reference addresses that which is incomplete or basic or under construction after a fashion; an item that is working to be refined, even perfected. Why should we strive to perfection? Why expend our energies toward an absolute and irrefutable standard?



There is only one reason: Perfection is the greatest state that can be achieved. To waste, earn, live, excel, strive toward or accomplish any other goal is to obtain less than absolute, less than the best, and less than potential. No matter how beyond us perfection is, if perfection is not our potential then we are deteriorating.



Deterioration occurs when things become less than what they are. If we only work toward easily obtainable goals then we have created a "good enough" complacency that does not expand our potential and does not grow our abilities. We improve by doing the impossible. A six minute mile. The speed of sound. These were impossibilities that once were. Now it happens every day. Or every day that someone tries.



So now we have two points.

Point 1: Absolutes, Perfection.

Point 2: Surpassing the limits of "impossible".




The phrases "irrefutable standard" and "doing the impossible" seem antonyms unless they describe two different things. They do describe two different things, but we have the complex task of determining what is actually a boundary and what is actually perfection. What is already a proper matter of balance, and what needs to change?



The most important beginning is the matter of absolutes. The best course to steer through, as a metaphor. Once you have a concept of perfection everything else is the impossible that can be changed. The irony of it all is most people consider perfection to be impossible, and choose to live somewhere in the meaningless fog that exists without a standard course. In truth you must set perfection as your ultimate goal, and then alter the impossible to make the stepping stones appear toward perfection.



This is all well and good until someone has a flawed or changeable view of perfection. Then begins to change the wrong boundaries of "impossible" to reach the point of their perfection.



So how do we find the true and universally correct standard of perfection? We observe, extrapolate (or theorize), observe to support of disprove our extrapolation, repeat if necessary, and then compare the results of different standards of "perfection".



So we will assume (with reasonable fact and observation to support) that throughout the towering climaxes and plummeting falls, somewhere the human race has begun to repeat itself over and over again, so perfection is either completely foreign to us or has existed sometime in our past. If true perfection is absolutely foreign to the human race we have a long and very difficult road to travel, so we will assume that somewhere in our attempts to eradicate ourself of the plague we see in our mirror [namely ourselves, frequently in the form of harming our fellows - our brothers and sisters] we have had access to the principles of true perfection at some juncture.



If we had access to Perfection, we just need to find what we did with it. So pick likely candidates from schools of thought. Look through the principles of these schools - not the never ending debates of what the fine details mean, but the effects on the common subscriber, the extremist, and the opponent of each school of thought. Draw a conclusion of what this could look like if it is employed to govern more than about 6000 people. Then find documentation, data, and research about what happened when the school of thought was applied to a large number of people. Compare each school of thought, and then ask which one resulted in the greatest benefit to everyone involved (including opponents). What reached the greatest success in curbing humanity's fascination with destroying itself or those around it, and each individual's tendency for the same?



What is truth? Truth is the answer. Truth is Perfection.