Growth within Time, infinite and never ending.

I've realized something today. The minute you begin to believe in yourself, the minute you begin to place faith in some system, then you stop growing, learning. A few moments ago I didn't want to watch a documentary that a residence buddy suggested because I "believed that I was right, and I didn't want to listen to some guy telling me that I'm wrong" Of course, the issue here is not in refusing to believe in a credible source (credibility is relative, and there's nothing to say that I'm not rigth and he's wrong) the problem is that I refuse to see his opinion. It's like writing a paragraph on paper and cutting it up in 4 parts, and telling someone to reconstruct the writing with only 3 of the parts. How can you know that your deductions are right if you aren't looking at all the evidence?

This is where my latest theory comes from. If at any moment in time you think you hold all the pieces, or you actually do hold all the pieces, then for that moment and that moment only you are right. However, the next moment someone comes up with a different idea, and if you cling to the thought that you're correct, and disregard his opinion, then you are wrong.

However I believe that this process is natural. One needs a stable system to operate in, and that requires that one stops taking in all the new possibilities. This is the difference between adults and children. Children are meant to absorb, adults to impart. How can one impart if the knowledge that one posesses instantly becomes obsolete and incorrect? This "setting in" is probably necessary for evolution. Long story short, this is why the previous generation will always raise the next above their heads, why art movements become mainstream and then are pushed back, this is how most things have a definite lifespan. This is also why scientists are constantly looking for new ideas and solutions. They know that once they believe that they hold the truth, they will be missing out on other discoveries and thus won't actually hold the truth. In a way, every step towards knowledge fails to grasp it.

Thus, Perfection - the point unto which no further progress is necessary - does not exist. Perfection, Eternal Life, Peace and Truth, the four ultimates that I have thought of, are unacheivable within a system based on the passage of time. And life cannot exist outside of time, so: These ultimates do not exist. In fact any and all ultimates do not exist.