Where did we come from

The question from YA!:

Philosophical discussion ...? 

(Just in your personal opinion) 

- Where did we come from? and where we will go?

I want you to try this thought experiment. 

Imagine infinite non-existence. If a ruler is infinitely long, every number possible (like 4527) and impossible (like minus minus beeblblatz) will eventually appear on that ruler. 

So, an infinite non-existence has every kind of non-existence possible in it, AND something impossible - existence! 

Now turn it around, and you have a little spot of reality (not little from OUR perspective but little compared to the infinity of infinities) that has x, y and z in it. Everything that is in that reality is determined by the invisible hand of the infinite sea of nothing. The infinite sea of nothing is so omnipresent and so multifaceted that it is an integral part of every atom (see superpositioning of electrons) and yet at every level it is invisible (because non-existent) except for effect. 

Now have this non-existence observe the world, as a colorless, formless, rootless consciousness attached unexplainably to the body of H, an animal roaming around this reality. 

Why is consciousness so ethereal, detatched and formless? Because it is the nothing observing itself in the one place where nothing can be something - reality. 

Thus God created the world, is unchanging, infinite omniscient and we are formed in his image, as shapeless unchanging observer. 

That is how we got here - creation.

On Dualism

Duality is a false god. It appeals to us because our minds filter ideas through continua (hot-warm-cool-cold; light-dull-dim-dark) and dualistic thinking 90% simplifies the universe. It allows for black and white thinking which is deeply satisfying and it allows the ineffable universe to feel within our grasp. 

But separating things creates TWO continua (heaven-purgatory-hell; sacred ground-ordinary ground-profane ground) and adds more and more theological complications until it resembles a man-made version of the ineffable universe, the ineffable theology so to speak. 

That then (the fact that dual logic is confusing) becomes a DEFENSE of dualism (life is a mystery.) 

Yes life is a mystery, but building a mystery cult around it is not an answer - it is parroting the question. 

Dualism does not work.

The question from Yahoo Answers:

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20140515023109AAJ76pB

The Donkey and the Hooch

The question from Yahoo Answers:

Is an addiction really broken if you just remove it?

If you have a donkey that drinks all your bourbon and you separate the two, you now have your bourbon and a thirsty donkey.

Teaching the donkey to stop wanting the bourbon is fine, but he can't ever have any again or he'll go right back to being a bourbon drinking donkey. You cannot unmake a drinking donkey unless you keep it away from your hooch.

The kicker, is of course that donkey's have a bad memory and forget that they have been trained not to drink.

But yes, you can teach an old donkey new tricks, so long as he avoids his old ones.

Goofy

The Boy Who Wanted To Fly

I was fascinated as a child with the belief that human unaided flight should be possible just by willing it, and that to the degree that it was not, we were buying a bill of goods called reality. I asked myself why I wanted reality more than I wanted to fly. I doubted I wanted reality more than I wanted to fly. 

But the will to crazy, the will to do anything I wanted if I wanted badly enough was not there. So I continued to puzzle over my fixation with sanity and limitation, eventually coming to see limitations as what make me me, and not just cosmic noise. I wanted to be me (live in a universe I recognized) more than I wanted to fly.

God and Evil: Theism and the Multiverse

Again Happy Hiram explains why there are bad things in the world but God is not evil.

Here was the question from Yahoo Answers:

Is it possible for there to be an all powerful, all knowing, all loving God in the face of evil and suffering!?

I do Religion, Philosophy and Ethics at school. I recently wrote an essay on the topic and expressed my views what are your thoughts? We thought about it in the terms of suffering during the holocaust when many innocent Jews faithful to God were slaughtered.

My Answer:
1. If the multiverse does not have a latent part (i. e. spiritual or phantom potential, aka God) then everything is as the ancients feared "eternal recurrence" and nothing is real. The Buddhists may love that answer, but I find it dehumanizing.

2. Everything affects everything else. Cause and effect run forwards AND backwards in time, contact clear across enormous distances of space and even "potential" events affect the whole. Those in the know call this God's Law, and define the relationship of spirit over matter as omnipotence.

3. In this universe of connectivity, take out Hitler and you might also lose the color red. Diversity is the greater good. Is the God who chooses to allow suffering for the sake of a more complex universe evil?

4. I believe God (potential) experiences matter (reality) through consciousness. That he goes through everything a holocaust victim does is the only reason why he can allow suffering in the world. Because he is there beside us through consciousness, which is the way in which we are made in his image, it is the part of us that is intangible, immaterial and most like un-existent potential.

Please mention me (Happy Hiram) if you use this in your paper.

The Question in Philosophy

The Prayer Boats Theory

There are those who say "My little prayer cannot change God's mind. God's plan is God's plan. What use is prayer?"

To me, when I pray for someone else's betterment, it actually works on me. We are like boats overwhelmed in a sea of troubles. When we pray, we are somewhat lifted above the tide and tempest of life, through our connection to God. 

As we are lifted out of the deep water, the waterlevel lowers for those around us, just as when we are in need we raise the stress and difficulty of others. Our draft* adds to the tide and our uplift lifts the burden on all.

Thus our little boat of prayer calms the sea without being about us.

The Green Sail represents the person praying.