Axiomatic principles

Some things just have to be assumed to be the way they are, as honestly mediated reality. Without assuming that which we experience is related to our actual environment, we are left to try to puzzle out an always hidden reality behind the hullicinations that we live in.
So ...

A. We can see, hear, feel, touch and smell at least part of the real world. No shadows on the wall nonsense.

B. We exist. We are real.
If we are somebody else's dream, then we are somebody else. We'll get down to the real being eventually. I'm dealing with reality here.

C. We have always existed and will always exist.
Whether through eternal spiritual life or DNA imprint, there is a self that pre-exists and persists beyond our present physical form. My beliefs are that an intelligence has existed from before the patterns of the universe were manifested. We became aware of the patterns rather than the patterns possessing a means of self-awareness.

D. We have the inate ability and capacity to choose among alternatives.
If this were not true we would be passive spectators in a grand theater, without ability to influence or choose in any meaningful way. Life would be fultile and this blog would be pointless navel gazing (It may be anyway, but not for this reason)

From the above axioms we can start forming principles.
1. We have value.
2. We are not solely anything's or anyone's creation to do with as they choose. At a most fundamental level we are our own.
3. We can learn and understand our circumstances as they actually are. Effort is required.
4. We are capable and trustworthy to make our own choices
5. Choices based on reality are best. The more of reality that we can incorporate in the basis for our choices, the better they will be.
6. Our history shows that complex cultures are more robust. We learn by interaction.
7. If we each have inate value, then there is no stable system that gives one of us a greater value than another.