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Part I. Effective-Meaning: Objective-Time
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Objective-Time: Objective-God
Now we know that we are looking at how the Soul or Consciousness relates to Objective-Time: Objective-God. But first we must know how the two sides of our second analogy relate.
�How does the Objective World coexist with Mortality/Immortality?��In the same way that the Objective World coexists with (the question or degree of) God or Perception/ Subjectivity or Mutability. That is to say, godliness is a measure of perception, and also a measure of immortality/ objectivity. Subjectivity or Mutability is a measure of mortality or change. Since perception is perception of truth and subjectivity/mutability is an absence of�or escape from�objective truth, we can say that what is objective is truth, and what is subjective is not at all universal. This is the same as saying that the subjective doesn�t apply to the world, for anything that is true about the world is at least in part universal. The only alternative would be a world that is not shared with other beings. Such a world would be essentially a dead part of the self, a measure of mortality. So it may be that so long as one has a shared (and hence slightly universal, slightly objective) world, one has a degree of perception that is not subjective, a degree of Objective-Perception that exists on the same scale as God. It may be that so long as one has a world, one has God (or Objective-Perception). A world is anywhere one finds meaning, and so to be as close as possible to God is to achieve the greatest possible significance.�
So to measure how objective something is, we need only look to how Objective-Perception or Subjective-Perception relate to Effective-Meaning. If God�s existence is meaningful, then objective truth is meaningful. If the life of a human soul is meaningful, then subjective truth is meaningful. It may be that the unchanging finds truth in the mutable, where new things can be created, and the subjective life finds truth in enduring things, which shape life and allow for different choices. (This may suggest a difference between the soul and the body in relating to the world).
In the context of our present analogy, we can say that in order for Effective-Meaning to balance with Objective-Time, Subjective-Perception (Soul) must reconcile with Objective-Perception (God). It seems then that the Objective World is Judgment.
Judgment is the relationship between the soul and God, respective to their contexts. The soul�s context is the world, and God�s context is Time or the Effective World. So we can
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� I might add that if we see the self-reference loop as creating a world, so long as we are conscious we are no longer subjective. Also, significance isn�t necessarily profound to the person who experiences it. Happiness can be very significant, so that one might say that a happy man is closer to God than someone boggling their brain over the meaning of words.
� Judgment is any case in which the subjective might become objective, or the objective become subjective. In other words, from the subjective standpoint, it is any case in which meaning is possible. Whenever subjectivity has no potential to become objective, or objectivity has no potential to become subjective, we can say that it has a quality of absolute subjectivity or objectivity.
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PART II.
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PART III.
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PART IV.
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