[RascalPuff]

Ideal and ideaology. The ideal being what a given individual or culture aspires to practicing.
The ideaololgy being the actual dynamic of what a person or culture actually practices.

A Ph.D friend of mine specializes in philology (the study of the evolution of languages), from whom, as I've mentioned before, I learned the derivational meaning of 'atonement'. The word translates to 'at one ment'. It is a spiritual and intellectual ideal. Much more Eastern than Western (But we're learning?).

Continuity and discontinuity - when the ideal and the ideaology parallel each other, they are continuously atoned. When the ideal and the idealogy are disparate from one another, then the ideal is not being practiced, and is discontinuous from a given ideal or set of belief systems, even when it - the ideal - is recognized and held up as a goal. For this reason and in this way the ideal and the ideaology do not always parallel each other, this bifurcartion is particularly true of the Western materilaist culture, which is, however unfortunately, internationally notorious for saying one thing, and doing another.

This standard also and notably applies to the disparity in physical science today. Continuity and discontinuity. Field physics and quantum mechanics. Fritjov Capra frequently refers to these considerations in his written works - The Tao of Physics, and, The Dancing Wu Lei Masters. The separation between East and West appears to be closing in matters of cultural Idealogy, and the separation between physical continuity and discontinuity is likewise perceived as an unnecessary division on its way to intellectual and spirtual amendment. A kind of mediation is in order and underway, where the two considered cultural, philosophical and scientific standards meet and adjoin in a realization that each has much to learn and benefit by, from the other. Closing for now on a poetic note of prose, Truly Yours is Eurasian, and learned much of this from a Mongolian mother.
Given that the agreed reason for being here in this forum is to share, in a search of a Theory of Everything, it follows, as to be expected, that discussions such as this will continue and hopefully evolve in a progressive manner, aspiring to the mergence of discontinuity with continuity, and ideal with ideaology.

- Regards, RP