Good read, thanks!
My english is not perfect so it takes me some time to write a text. I'll try to reply to some of your thoughs in my own new answer, really soon.
My english is not perfect so it takes me some time to write a text. I'll try to reply to some of your thoughs in my own new answer, really soon.
the meaning of life is to count to a googolplex
What's a googolplex?
Pathfinder, I see you struggle to decide whether you can or cannot believe in God. That's why you have so many arguments. You seek for answers, you will only find within yourself. See His existence - in the sunset, the flower, the beetle, the ant, the elephant, you. Open your eyes it is actually there
A googolplex is 10 to the googol!
Which is 10 to the 10 to the 100
or 10 to the 10 toe the 10 to the 10
But either way, it's big!
And anonymous, you sound more pagan-y or tao-y or trascedental than God-y
I do not see "his" existence because of something:
If god was divine, he would have to be perfect, if god was perfect, he could not exist because perfection (or "utopia")does not exist in nature
And that is how I became pessimistic.
Which is 10 to the 10 to the 100
or 10 to the 10 toe the 10 to the 10
But either way, it's big!
And anonymous, you sound more pagan-y or tao-y or trascedental than God-y
I do not see "his" existence because of something:
If god was divine, he would have to be perfect, if god was perfect, he could not exist because perfection (or "utopia")does not exist in nature
And that is how I became pessimistic.
I FOUND MORE GOOGOLPLEX STUFF ITS SO BIG YOU CAN'T FIT WRITING IT INTO THE OBSERVABLE UNIVERSE
But, I did find that on wikipedia, and it isnt the most reliable site to go to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googolplex
But, I did find that on wikipedia, and it isnt the most reliable site to go to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googolplex
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Imagine that this god does not have an image like what you see in the mirror but has the image of energy. Imagine that you are energy too, the same one and only energy, and what you perceive is just the information of God, wether it's a chair, a star or the neighbour's dog, they're all just information of God. Imagine that the energy has it's own behavior (because it is God itself and it can behave somehow for sure) and it developed some sort of consciousness. Imagine that the consciousness of ours is what we call a soul, and this is what observes the universe via a process what is described in wave dynamics. The interaction of the consciousness and the rest of the energy (or god) creates new energy-waves with new information. This is the way the universe develops and this is the way you and me and everyone is able to observe it. All the information we see is pure interaction of waves of energy (or soul and god), and whatever we don’t see at the moment does only exist in a form of energy.
The actual perceptions what we call seeing, hearing, smelling and so forth, are all based on the interaction of energy waves. One interaction creates one type of information, what we, let's say, experience as atoms. These small waves conatining atom-information collapse in much larger waves creating molecules, these interact with each other and form visible matter, and so on. According to our experience and different participating waves, we can discover a fireball on the sky causing the color of the things. But what actually happens is that energy-waves all over the universe collapse with each other, generate interference in each other (i.e. one changes the other's amplitudo and strength and vice versa), and the consciousness observes this whole mass of energy as light, objects and so on. But the consciousness is the same energy itself what creates everything else. So whatever changes in the universe, changes in the consciousness too, and whatever changes in the consciousness, changes in the universe too.
We are in an eternal interaction with the world. No matter wether we see reality or imagination, the sure thing is that the world effects us as we effect the world. The point where the question „what is reality” becomes important is the point where we want to understand how to effect our own life for a better future. Does maybe God assign a path for us to walk on? Does God expect us to reach something? Does God expect us to behave and live in a particular way so he can eventually reward our suffering with eternal joy in heaven? Why would he?
The only thing in this universe is the one and only God - or energy or Brahman or Tao or whatever you want to call it. There is only One in existence. We all are part of it. We have our free will just as God does and our only limitations are whatever we see in and around us. Just think about it, why is that there are people who can have, do or be anything they want, and there are others who can have, do or be nothing at all? One decides to see unlimited possibilities and the other decides to see lack and limitation.
We decide how we want to live. First of all, we decide wether we want to use our free will or not. If we want to use it then we decide either to do what we have to do or not. The ultimate goal of the world is the total improvement of our possibilities based upon our consciousness, but noone will ever blame us if we don’t choose this. Because there is no big book of the universe in which there is written that development of consciousness is good and everything else is bad, or whatever. Indeed, good and bad aren’t even mentioned in the imaginary plan of the universe.
The logical opposite of conscious awareness is addiction. Addiction makes it hard to behave according to a conscious, free will decision, and a conscious mind is not so deeply addicted. The increase of the one decreases the other. If you think about your past, you'll probably see that the most difficult times were those when you wanted to feel some kind of emotion but you couldn't because your current task was something else to do. The reason for the hard feeling is that emotions are based on the same mechanism as drugs. We use the same receptors in our cells for every biochemical process and the emotional chemicals react with our cells in the same kid of process as drugs do. So if you can addict to drugs, you can addict to emotions too. And the more you experience an emotion, the more you addict to it and the less conscious you are able to behave when that emotion is one possible outcome of your choice. Unfortunately, this is also true for emotions like anger, hate, pain, etc.
The so called "God given free will" is a tool to do what is right against what is wrong. Emotions are not wrong. The wrong thing is the addiction to an emotion.
Yes, there is a path which is worth to follow. But it’s not the only way and not an absolutely necessary way. Sure it’s necessary if you want to reach some particular things like success, health, long life, love, etc., but if you’re OK having an average job and average lame habits then who would judge you? God? Why would he? He's fine whatever you choose...
Perfection is the ultimate goal. We should go towards an ultimate perfection – but we must know that we’ll never be able to reach it because of a simple logical reason: movement in time means imperfection in every single point of time – and the whole universe is moving. So imperfection is not something bad – it’s our natural attribute. But we can always develop, and it is our own interest to do that.
I belive there is only one rule we may not break (however, we always do), and this rule is that we may never cause lack of other people’s free will. It sounds simple but it’s really not. Just imagine that if you make someone addict to you then you control his/her will (for example through deep, strong emotions), or when you commit a crime then you put people in a state in which they can’t choose by free will. There are millions of cases where we control each other or change each other’s way of behavior. We raise feelings and give memories to each other every single minute we live together in this world and all these feelings, all these memories make us a little more addicted to each other. It’s not possible to avoid this, so it’s not possible to totally keep to this rule. The solution is to take care of each other, and to chose by our conscious awareness instead of our addictions when we want to decide what to do to ourselves or the other. I belive this is called „good”.
Just imagine what a happiness life would be if you and everyone would live according to this. That's what I call the kingdom of heaven.