What if....
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sobriqueThis may seem a bit rambly, and that's mostly because I ended up bashing it out on a keyboard somewhat late at night.
What if all the holy texts had it wrong?
Philosophy interpreted by men, for their own ends.
What if there were something more to the universe. Something great and wonderful. Call it God if you will, but call it incomprehensible at the same time. What is man to know and understand this? Even those we call divinely inspired
Is it not possible, that over 2000 years of translation and interpretation, we have missed the message? We've misunderstood what these men were trying to put into words.
That the universe, is.
Doing good, does not open the doors into heaven. It simply changes you for the better. Evil the same. The child filled with innocence means no ill, and then all it does is good. The man who knows he hurts others, but heralds himself as good, poisons his own soul.
We cannot, and will not ever understand the human brain. It is too complicated to know itself. So might not the Universe be the same. Fundamentally unknowable, without understanding beyond what it is. Understanding that we will _never_ achieve, because in understanding, we would have to be something other than we are.
I do not believe that any mortal can know or understand what is. We do not understand the boundary between life and death, and we cannot. Merely accept that it is.
The eye, cannnot see itself.
But that doesn't mean we cannot catch snippets. Reflections and shadows. And we extrapolate and guess, but cannot know. That there _is_ something more to what we are. The universe is a system, a complex interlinked system. Merely by existing, and being who we are, and where we are, we exert a force on everything around us. And so it is with _everything_. You cannot consider the parts, without understanding the whole.
And we will never know the whole, because we cannot, without encompassing it ourselves.
Is this not the nature of that which is divine?
What if Jesus' message to the world, and that of all the prophets, were very, very simple. So simple, in fact, that they get wrapped up in pages and pages of dogma, and bundled with rules and doctrines, because something so simple is hard to understand, especially for those who are secretly looking for a message that gives them power. The power of the powerful stems from authority, and so it must be controlled.
The message, simply, was that the universe is beyond our understanding. Call it God, call it Allah, call it Tao, or name it what you will. It doesn't care. But the real message, is, and always has been a simple one.
The universe just is. Get on with living.
You may as well go forth, and be prepared to appreciate what you encounter, since all you need understand is that everything's connected. Everything's a part of everything else. You cannot appreciate a flower, by dividing it down into it's component atoms, and seeing how they interact. It's much the same with the universe - as you divide it down into stuff and things, you lose sight that these are all interlinked parts.
So go forth, and appreciate all around you. And remember, the price you pay for being bad, is that you are. No more, no less. Look with jaded eyes of cynicsm, and see a dark, sinister and maelevolent world. The joy of being a good person, is that fundamentally, all that is good, returns to you. There is no greater joy than to love.
It's just so simple, that we have trouble comprehending.
That which we call 'human conciousness' is nothing more than the swirling currents in the river. It's no more, and no less miraculous, than seeing the emergent patterns in a weather system. And it is miraculous. We can't truly understand or appreciate it, but that makes it no less a wonder. Our beliefs and dreams, our prayers are not heard. They're simply a part of the whole, that we cannot comprehend. There's no one listening and taking notes. But it's all just one thing, and a simple thing. They are all parts of the whole, and no one part is more or less than another.
Each time we call something 'gods will', blind luck, or we see a pattern that we cannot understand, then that is simply what it is. Call it God's mysterious purpose, or call it random chance as the universe unfolds, these are one and the same thing. If the universe is concious, then we will not understand it, because we _cannot_ understand it. Our beliefs, dreams, projections and hopes are all we'll ever be able to push forth as our understanding of how things are.
So we must simply content ourselves with the wonders we see around us every day, and appreciate them for what they are.
What if all the holy texts had it wrong?
Philosophy interpreted by men, for their own ends.
What if there were something more to the universe. Something great and wonderful. Call it God if you will, but call it incomprehensible at the same time. What is man to know and understand this? Even those we call divinely inspired
Is it not possible, that over 2000 years of translation and interpretation, we have missed the message? We've misunderstood what these men were trying to put into words.
That the universe, is.
Doing good, does not open the doors into heaven. It simply changes you for the better. Evil the same. The child filled with innocence means no ill, and then all it does is good. The man who knows he hurts others, but heralds himself as good, poisons his own soul.
We cannot, and will not ever understand the human brain. It is too complicated to know itself. So might not the Universe be the same. Fundamentally unknowable, without understanding beyond what it is. Understanding that we will _never_ achieve, because in understanding, we would have to be something other than we are.
I do not believe that any mortal can know or understand what is. We do not understand the boundary between life and death, and we cannot. Merely accept that it is.
The eye, cannnot see itself.
But that doesn't mean we cannot catch snippets. Reflections and shadows. And we extrapolate and guess, but cannot know. That there _is_ something more to what we are. The universe is a system, a complex interlinked system. Merely by existing, and being who we are, and where we are, we exert a force on everything around us. And so it is with _everything_. You cannot consider the parts, without understanding the whole.
And we will never know the whole, because we cannot, without encompassing it ourselves.
Is this not the nature of that which is divine?
What if Jesus' message to the world, and that of all the prophets, were very, very simple. So simple, in fact, that they get wrapped up in pages and pages of dogma, and bundled with rules and doctrines, because something so simple is hard to understand, especially for those who are secretly looking for a message that gives them power. The power of the powerful stems from authority, and so it must be controlled.
The message, simply, was that the universe is beyond our understanding. Call it God, call it Allah, call it Tao, or name it what you will. It doesn't care. But the real message, is, and always has been a simple one.
The universe just is. Get on with living.
You may as well go forth, and be prepared to appreciate what you encounter, since all you need understand is that everything's connected. Everything's a part of everything else. You cannot appreciate a flower, by dividing it down into it's component atoms, and seeing how they interact. It's much the same with the universe - as you divide it down into stuff and things, you lose sight that these are all interlinked parts.
So go forth, and appreciate all around you. And remember, the price you pay for being bad, is that you are. No more, no less. Look with jaded eyes of cynicsm, and see a dark, sinister and maelevolent world. The joy of being a good person, is that fundamentally, all that is good, returns to you. There is no greater joy than to love.
It's just so simple, that we have trouble comprehending.
That which we call 'human conciousness' is nothing more than the swirling currents in the river. It's no more, and no less miraculous, than seeing the emergent patterns in a weather system. And it is miraculous. We can't truly understand or appreciate it, but that makes it no less a wonder. Our beliefs and dreams, our prayers are not heard. They're simply a part of the whole, that we cannot comprehend. There's no one listening and taking notes. But it's all just one thing, and a simple thing. They are all parts of the whole, and no one part is more or less than another.
Each time we call something 'gods will', blind luck, or we see a pattern that we cannot understand, then that is simply what it is. Call it God's mysterious purpose, or call it random chance as the universe unfolds, these are one and the same thing. If the universe is concious, then we will not understand it, because we _cannot_ understand it. Our beliefs, dreams, projections and hopes are all we'll ever be able to push forth as our understanding of how things are.
So we must simply content ourselves with the wonders we see around us every day, and appreciate them for what they are.
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Date: 2007-01-30 02:57 pm (UTC)It is solely because there are people who refuse to do that they we able to have this conversation.
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Date: 2007-01-30 02:59 pm (UTC)It is solely because there are people who refuse to do that that we are able to have this conversation.