embrace it all as non-conclusive, rather than throw it all away as non-conclusive.
Embracing or throwing away, it’s the same to me. Maybe it would be best to say “accept”. The way you say it, I, too, embrace the fact that it’s non-conclusive, I just throw away those details as basis for any conclusion. It’s non-conclusive, and that’s that. Oh yeah, some of them were “wow”, but again that’s that. No need to dwell upon it.
Uncertainty is my copilot. This is our human experience.
I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty certain that I will die one day. This is also the only unshakable knowledge I have about this “relative world”, including the “second attention”. The rest, as I’ve said, I’m not even sure if I can label as knowledge. It’s more like an obvious fact, like that analogy with Sun I used — I may not even know what Sun is, but it’s still there for me to see.
Which is also true of hypnosis. People cluck like chickens and wave their arms like wings at their sides… They literally cannot help themselves.
The only difference being that what I’m talking about is pretty much a conscious process (as opposed to effects of hypnosis). I could resist the change but that would be just plain stupid (and in the end the change would happen anyway, and I would see it happening — well, there are limits to every power).
But subjectively, my fate as a human being is inextricably intertwined with that of my fellow humans. I don’t see the failure in embracing that (and them).
I bet that you would be also mourning the loss of your dog. That says to me that you are intertwined with more than your fellow humans. But, I guess, there’s no need to be this morbid — if you can appreciate the sheer beauty of a marble on a shore, you already know what I’m trying to say ;) Anyway, if we can appreciate dogs, insects, and even marbles, why would it not apply to people? Then again, when I see what most people do to/with themselves … hm. But that’s the beauty of free will, I guess :D