Is the universe justified?

According to most theology the world is only justified if it is seen as right in the eyes of God.

But what if the universe is inherently justified in itself? How then could we say that certain things in a justified universe were un-just? Can certain objects of a unified “good” whole be “bad”? no they must all have equal weight in the whole since the whole cannot exist without them. And since the whole is justified then nothing contained within the whole can be distinguished as un-just.

So how can the universe be justified?

It seems that things that happen within the world are unjustified, “evil” BAD. So since these things exist can’t we conclude that the universe is inherently unjustified? and that as a cause everything within the universe is unjustified? So then why does the universe exist?

It seems that a universe that has no justification should have no reason to exist.

These are all interesting problems that God easily solves. This is why many people perceive God as too easy an answer and dismiss the idea of theology. I’ll even admit to doing this myself but only because I like asking these questions too much. And believing in God obviously doesn’t allow you to ask these questions… Because God hates people who think and rains down justice on those who try.

Where does the physical start and the mind end?

I often find myself categorizing the the physical is somehow more “real” then whatever else there is. This whatever else, my perception for instance, is in reality the only thing that I can say is “real” as it is the only thing that I can truly grasp.

So there is this glaring question. What is this only real thing that I can grasp if it is not somehow physical? Where does “reality” stop and physicality begin if these things are in fact different?

It is often said that the simplest explanation is usually the correct one. So if this is the case then doesn’t it seem reasonable to say that everything is one thing. So which one is it? Do we live in a purely physical world, where everything is in fact a function of physical interactions or alternatively are we in a world where everything is a function of perception where this idea of perception is all that there is without what we deem a “physical” world.

Whichever way it is I’m going to keep convincing myself that this coffee I’m drinking is delicious no matter what my senses keep telling me.

We as humans play games.

When we are bored we create these pockets of purpose in our lives to use our minds with.

What do games say about humans?

Are the games we play just meaningless time fillers or do they say something more about the human condition.

Games require us to think about something within a confined space. We assign rules to certain interactions so that they can have forced consequences. Sometimes the consequences are not what we thought they would be.

In games we find these unanswered questions.

We play.

With each new game we discover something new, about the game, about ourselves as players.

What would happen if….

Becomes the question and we have the ability to play out possibilities to run our thought process to a conclusion and then once the sum of all the thought that has gone into a game is completed the game is destroyed. You pick up the pieces and you play again. You have to get better somehow.

I AM GOD

A simple, seemingly arrogant, blasphemous statement. Yet while most religions categorize it as such it is exactly what they want you to believe. Many are taught that God is an omnipresent, omniscient being whose “noodly appendage” (at least for Pastafarians) has a hand in all things. So why then, am I not God? Are I not A part of God?

The reason this statement seems so offensive is that everyone thinks in terms of their own personal self and the personal selves of others as separate and totally different when in reality we all are, on some fundamental level, absolutely the same. The connections that we encounter on a daily basis seem so flimsy except in occasions of true friendship, and love and so we dismiss them often times as unimportant compared to a relationship to God. It is these earthly connections however that are the most important to developing a spirituality. Certainly a relationship to higher being sounds appealing but it is what we encounter in life that will truly define us as people.

A friend of mine once misheard someone say to me “so then the joke’s on you” as part of a now forgotten conversation. My friend, stoned out of his mind, seemed to think that this statement somehow meant that I had a “joke” on my physical person or in my possession.

He continued to argue that the expression “do you have a joke on you?” would be understood by most people and that it would actually be a good expression to use in daily life. The friend and I who were having the original conversation could not let this abomination of an expression go unchallenged. Without going into specifics about how this expression could ever be used in actual conversation we went to work explaining to him that a “joke” while a common concept can never in any circumstance be possessed physically by any person, place or thing.

We explained that while yes someone could have a piece of paper that had a joke written on it, that piece of paper is not a joke without someone to read it. Therefore there is no possible way for someone to actually have a joke “on” them at least in the sense where we are talking about a singular joke (instead of perhaps “the” joke as is said in the common expression that started this whole fiasco).

People often times have trouble distinguishing a concept from a physical reality. Most people will tell you that a piece of paper with a joke written on it is a joke, when in fact it is nothing but a piece of paper until someone observes it and interprets it as a joke. Its odd that we treat the physical and the conceptual so similarly when logically they are so different. Each presents itself as equally real in our minds so our minds treat it that way, it is only once we step back and realize that our mind is creating everything, even our notion of “reality,” that we can truly get a glimpse at what is going on.