Hey @bub your post came at a good time, because I was writing about this just yesterday :
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The problem with reason alone is that without the grounding of fact it turns to affect to fill the gaps. In fact most people’s world views ‘make sense’ to them logically, they can string together a bunch of affective constructs in a way that seems infallible and yet as you mentioned with the right perspective it is really laughable.
Hence as Richard wrote “it is impossible to combat the wisdom of the real world”, it has been woven so intricately, with each belief having reference to another so seamlessly, the end product appearing so reasonable. And yet the PCE shows the whole lot to be incorrect.
Can you see that your entire post is essentially mental/psychic gymnastics designed to make that which you know is imperfect seem perfect. You are essentially saying that as you can’t change human nature you might as well accept it for what it is. This is the way of spirituality, based on the original resentment of being here and then seeking to turn this into Beauty in order to make it palatable.
You can call it gods plan but the fact remains that as long as ‘I’ remain in existence life will not be experienced as perfect.
But really isn’t this simply accepting second best? Not daring to aim for pure and unadulterated perfection but rather straining to make ‘reality’ perfect (which it can never be).
As I wrote in my post the PCE can show you in an instant that the worldview you propose in your post is simply incorrect. That in actuality there is neither good nor bad, there is only perfection and purity, that there is absolutely no need for acceptance or beauty in order to make life more palatable.
No need for any mental gymnastics to prove the perfection and purity as it is being lived with 100% certainty. It is a life changing experience because it shows all the ‘human wisdom’ that came before to amount to coping mechanisms.
If you can remember a PCE then you can have certainty that actual perfection and purity is possible. If you cannot remember a solid PCE perhaps you can throw your memory back to your childhood, do you remember a sense of magic that seemed to be infused into the very world you existed in back then? Can you remember this sense that life was a fairy-tale like experience? Something that you were later locked out of when you became an adult.
If you can recall this flavour, if you can taste it to any degree then you can discover for yourself the perfection which has never known imperfection. This is not a case of transcending the good and the bad, it is rather about discovering a place where the good and bad never existed in the first place. In actuality all is pristine and so there is no need for Beauty to rise over the Ugly, the perfection which you aim for as an actualist is completely untainted by anything that exists in ‘reality’ and thus it does not require any mental/psychic gymnastics to make it palatable.