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[scarletamour]

The integral theorist, Ken Wilbur, says that no one is 100% wrong, but I am sure that some are closer to being completely wrong than others. In some cases different religions may be hitting the same target with some being closer to the bulls-eye than others. Because of fixations, conditioning factors and our self created blind spots we cannot know how close to the bulls-eye we are. Some religions or ideologies miss the target altogether.
But dont you agree that some cultures of belief are better than others? Cannot you, personally, come off the fence and declare which beliefs are better than others, and why they are better?

If not, you must be unable to vote in a political election.
I am not in a culture of belief except on the internet. I spend time on Christian Existentialism feeds on face book. I do not have any one favorite philosopher or writer, I am for the most part in tune with the thinking of Soren Kierkegaard the Protestant, Nikolai Berdyeav from Orthodoxy, Gabriel Marcel the Catholic, A. J. Herschel the Jewish scholar, Jose Ortega Y Gasset the Spanish philosopher and some others. The aforementioned Christian Existentialists are more concrete, logically tight, and personalistic in their thinking.

In the USA I am able to vote; I can choose between chasing the wind with the conservatives or plowing the sea with the liberals.

[Thomyum2]

The integral theorist, Ken Wilbur, says that no one is 100% wrong, but I am sure that some are closer to being completely wrong than others. In some cases different religions may be hitting the same target with some being closer to the bulls-eye than others. Because of fixations, conditioning factors and our self created blind spots we cannot know how close to the bulls-eye we are. Some religions or ideologies miss the target altogether.
But dont you agree that some cultures of belief are better than others? Cannot you, personally, come off the fence and declare which beliefs are better than others, and why they are better?

If not, you must be unable to vote in a political election.
I am not in a culture of belief except on the internet. I spend time on Christian Existentialism feeds on face book. I do not have any one favorite philosopher or writer, I am for the most part in tune with the thinking of Soren Kierkegaard the Protestant, Nikolai Berdyeav from Orthodoxy, Gabriel Marcel the Catholic, A. J. Herschel the Jewish scholar, Jose Ortega Y Gasset the Spanish philosopher and some others. The aforementioned Christian Existentialists are more concrete, logically tight, and personalistic in their thinking.

In the USA I am able to vote; I can choose between chasing the wind with the conservatives or plowing the sea with the liberals.

Hello scarlettamour, welcome to the forum.

Your post caught my eye because I happen to be reading a book by Ken Wilber at the moment. But your first statement suggests that maybe you're not that familiar with his work because (in addition to misspelling his name) I think you've oversimplified his theory which isn't that 'no one is 100% wrong', but rather that - as I understand it so far - different schools of thought are rooted in particular 'domains' each of which reflects an aspect of the Kosmos, as he calls it, and that a full understanding requires that we take into account all of these different approaches to knowledge and experience. I think his work is interesting and has a lot of potential merit, though it's still new to me and I'm still not completely sure where I will stand on it when I understand it better.

I'm a little confused by the rest of your post as you seem to stray from integral theory into asking about beliefs and politics. And I'm not sure I understand how being unable to vote in a political election is connected with being able to articulate one's beliefs. As for me, yes, I am also able to vote in the USA. Sadly, however, I find that the exercise of this right more often than not amounts to the choosing among the lesser of two or more evils rather than being a reflection of any of my deeper values or more sincere beliefs.