Sunday, 2 November 2025

Every person is unique - a plain fact of experience, contradicted by nearly-all theories (including religions)

When I reflect on the people I have admired particularly - who are mostly authors - I am struck by how extremely different they are from me in nature and motivations. 

But then, I have never met anyone who is much like me, even superficially - not even my brother, who is obviously the most similar. 

It might be supposed this is because I am exceptionally strange; but the fact of my experience is that I have never met any two people who were fundamentally alike.


Every single person I have ever known at all well, man or woman, was unique; and unlike any of the others in their nature

All my family and relatives are each absolutely distinctive; all my men friends and colleagues, all the girls I knew at all well. None could be confused with another. 

(Although, admittedly, there are people who it seemed impossible for me to get to know; as if they had a shell, or might be putting on an act all the time.) 


And this is not just The Human Condition, but apparently applies to animals - in my rather limited acquaintance. I have got to know quite a few cats, and each of these was absolutely distinct - and dogs seem to be just as individual, from a smaller sample size. I am confident I would find the same with any kind of knowable animal I made the effort to get-to-know - although there would doubtless be many kinds of animal I couldn't know.  


In sum: Uniqueness is the norm in this world. 

And Yet!...

Pretty much all of the socio-political, scientific and religious schemes and theories concerning human beings; operate on the basis that people are interchangeable units, that can be swapped for each other. 

Or, at best, that all human beings can be fitted into a small number of categories - within-which they again become interchangeable units. 


In conclusion: this defect of nearly-all socio-political, scientific and religious theory is solid experiential evidence that None Of them Are True

All are, at best and most charitably interpreted, merely ultra-simplified models of superficial aspects of reality

This includes Christian theories and theologies. 


At their hearts, all such schemata share a literally-demonic indifference to actual people, actual beings - evident when any of these models are regarded as being the truth about reality

 

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