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NEFX - Judisagrous.txt ? So a project of this sort would have to from the get-go clarify its aims and logic. ? Specifically, the mortal limits of beings preclude the possibility of this project's accomplishment at least on an individual basis (though it would seem unlikely that the specifically articulated vision of one such enterpriser could be accurrately, willingly, and persistently taken up by a succession of mortal beings to the project's completion), and therein may seem to lie a clue to the riddle of being and the ultimate, though ultimately conception of the ultimate would seem to entail something beyond mortal limit. ? To fully realize and articulate this seems eternally elusive, though to work out even a fragment of it could be to help advance the thinker in question in their life and conduct. ? Thus a healthy periodic re-investigation must be made into such questions, like to continuously nourish a form of life so that it does not die prematurely; and this can start with so much as the question, with even a daring to still ask a question past the point at which may have been assumed to have been answered and done with, and even to get at what the question means. ? Granted, it can be considered ironically that the weight of such cumulative cultural inheritance, often reductive and received as in dimming echos, imbues beings in certain times with the idea that the answer has already been supplied and done with, and therefore needs no tarrying with, or even so suffuses the life and inherited wisdom and advances of the present that it is practically synonymous with them -- an idea that ironically can allow beings, whether individually or collectively if not intergenerationally, to slip yet further away from comprehension of the answer to the question of being. ? culturally) conditioned they may be, this is not necessarily to say that they consider them complete or negligible, or that the current collective thoughtform is anymore indifferent to the matter than that of another time or place, whose culturally (and one may add imperialistically) handed down canons and cultural highlights may appear more broadly representative of the contexts whence they sprung than they actually are. ? e. ? For a while it may be questionable whether everyone's tacit givens concerning matters such as being and the ultimate are valid or thought through, however subjectively decided or spatiotemporally (i. ? A problem arises then where a hubristic if not messianic attempt is made, emboldened by a position of safety, privilege, and perhaps a parent culture conditioning one to a supposed special right thereto -- to raise aloft an absolute answer to the question of the absolute, however seemingly lengthily and rigorously arrived at, around which beings at large must rally, all under the hollow pretext of "their own good" that they supposedly do not, or even can not, know. ? Nonetheless, a serious investigation ought to be made time and again, if for no other reason than that so many of our actions and systems of engaging with reality are built, however subconsciously, on this foundation -- a foundation that, if it is faulty, may render those wrong as well, though not always in a manner immediately apparent. ? Yet it cannot necessarily be therefore assumed that there are no answers given to the question of being, whether historically or in one's own time, let alone that the wide variety of answers supplied by different people means that the answer is not to be found among them. ? And yet though it be necessary and perhaps ultimately fruitful to grapple with these things, especially concerning such core matters as what it is to be at all, this can entail a meantime strain on facility in communication that makes abiding in common social life more difficult. ? One odd and disturbing thing to consider in our understanding of terms and concepts is that the more fundamental they seem to be, the more elusive and yet tacitly or unconsciously assumed their nature is, such that we can unknowingly be operating on a parallax of understanding between virtually all individuals that often is not even very thorough or conscious, but just taken for granted.