The Absolute is the totality of things. Why do we associate that with .....?

Question

like absolute morals in religions?
something finished, static? Even if one could know the absolute, why should that imply that one is finished or that one knows all, could the absloute not also mean that you realize that itself is in change?
So that there can never be any perfect understanding, never any end to reach.

Would that destroy the absolute?
or at least the absolute mentality that many religions especially embody.

Sorry english is not my mother tounge?

philosophyangel:

How can one know about the absolute if it "outside" of the universe or independent of it, how can one be sure that it is not an idea rather then a reality?

Answer 1

You pose a good paradox. But the only one who knows all is God. Ask him.
But he's always really busy, so ask a priest/clergyman.

Answer 2

In religious philosophy, the "Absolute" defines what is not Relative. It is not the "totality of things"; it is that which exists in itself and not in relation to anything else. In that it does not exist in relation to anything else, it can't be known by or compared with anything else. Thus, it is said to be beyond attributes and is regarded as the highest idea of God in some religions (forms of Hinduism specifically--and this idea also was known in Greco-Roman religions and in Neoplatonic thought and mystical Judaism [ie, Kalaba]). The Absolute refers to Being (Existence) itself--not the things that manifest as existence. It is sometimes metaphorically described as the blank screen on which a movie is projected. The blank screen is the Absolute and the changing patterns and dramas projected upon it is the relational, phenomenological world. When the movie ends, the screen is still there.