Free Will and the God Connection

So I wanted to talk some on free will. I used to like this page on facebook called The Flower of Life and Sacred Geometry. The reason I liked this page was because I liked the flower of life and sacred geometry. But then the page would post a bunch of crap and I unliked it because the stuff they posted was pissing me off.

So, one of the things they posted was about free will. What it said was, free will is just an illusion, because someone will always decide to do what they think will bring them the greatest amount of pleasure.

This partially true, partially false. It is true that you will only make decisions based on what will bring you the greatest amount of pleasure. That is, decisions regarding actions. But that's not where free will lies. Free will lies in the organization of the mind. So basically, to simplify what I am thinking, you choose what you think, how you think, and what outcome will bring you the most perceived pleasure is based on the way your mind is organized. The way that you chose to organize your mind.

So let's talk about choices and actions. When you make choices, you choose between two different things at a time. You break down each decision into a yes/no question. And then you answer a series of yes/no questions to arrive at your decision.

So say you were deciding between buying the shirt in red, blue, or yellow. First you would think, "Do I like the idea of owning this shirt in red?" And if the answer is yes, you would then ask, "Even though I like it in red, would I prefer it in blue?" If the answer is yes, then you would ask, "Would I like it even better in yellow than blue?"

You organize your mind. All action comes from God. God makes you do things.

Dopamine is what motivates your brain to act. Dopamine is also the pleasure brain chemical. Because it is pleasure that drives you to act. And all feelings of pleasure, on a spiritual level, come from God. So when you have more dopamine you have a stronger connection with God. I mean, in a certain sense. That doesn't mean that God loves you more. But what pleasure is on a spiritual level is connection with God.

So, what I was saying was, you think, God acts for you. Because God is what makes things happen on the physical plane.

I shall revisit this topic later.

Where the Yin Meets the Yang: Why God is Probably a Girl

So I am taking a short break from studying mobile app development to write this blog on something I was thinking yesterday.

Human's existence on Earth, the speck of human consciousness, is the place where the logical meets the  emotional. It all occurs inside the human mind.

The physical is the logical, the masculine, the yang. It is concerned with things that are concrete, things that are measurable, calculable, things that you can apply logic to.

The spiritual is the emotional, the feminine, the yin. It is concerned with experiences, how we experience things, experiences we understand but cannot put words to, or apply logic to.

It's like how you can't describe color to a blind man. Because the experience of colors is something there are no words to describe.

A little kid, or anyone for that matter, could go on asking "Why?" forever. There comes a point where you just have to say, "It is because... it is." Some things... just are. You can't describe them. You can't put logic to them.

The yang are the questions one asks. The yin is the things that just are, that you can't put words to or apply reason to.

And from this, we can deduce that God is probably a girl. Not that God has a vagina, because God doesn't have a body, but God is part of the feminine, or the yin. Because to me, God is the point where you stop applying reason. At least, in terms of how it came to be. God is the essence of the universe. God always was. God always will be. God just is. The essence of the universe is spiritual.

People make the mistake of not recognizing that their brain capacity is limited. In particular, atheists like Richard Dawkins. I read a quote by him that he dislikes religion because it makes you satisfied with not understanding.

You have to realize, that the nature of the universe, why everything came to be, is something that is impossible to understand fully. You can understand it better, but you can't understand it fully. Because when humans seek to understand something, they do this by attempting to apply logic to it. And some things just do not follow the rules of logic.

So you have to be satisfied with not understanding. You have to be the little kid who stops asking "Why?" Not that you should never ask why, but you also need to accept that certain things just are.

You see the conflict between the yin and the yang come into play when it comes to religion. Religion is an attempt to apply logic to the yin, or the spiritual. The truth is, logic and reason are native to the physical. That is why religions seem contradictory. They are contradictory if you use logic. In terms of metaphysics, they are different takes on the same thing.

So now what I am doing is, I am wondering if my experiences with hell really represented truth, or rather they just represented a step along the journey. The journey being my changing beliefs.