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.
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
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.
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.
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
The Root of Evil: When Sex Goes Awry
So I'd like to take a moment to discuss how sex leads to evil.
Before you say, sex isn't evil! Let me explain. No, sex in itself isn't evil. But evil is created when sex goes awry.
So first off, what is evil? Evil is exreme hatred, disregard for other people, or pleasure derived from the misery of other people.
Sexual arousal is an emotion unlike other emotions. The reason it is unlike other emotions is because there is a greater range of variation in situations that trigger sexual arousal from person to person.
There is slight variation in other emotions, like sense of humor. Different people laugh at slightly different things. But sexual arousal is different. One only needs to google the word "fetish" or "sexual deviation" to find the great variety of odd things that people find sexually stimulating.
Some people think sexuality refers to sexual orientation. Sexual orientation is only a small part of sexuality. Sexuality is huge.
Sexuality develops early in life. The media influences your child's sexuality. From an early age, young girls and boys are bombarded with images of femininity and masculinity. These images and the child's response to these images become a part of the child's sexuality. That is why you better be careful what you let your kids watch on TV. Little kids are like super, massively absorbent sponges.
If a kid is sexually stimulated early in life, this will affect the child's sexuality. The moment will become ingrained in the child and be the basis for what the child finds sexually arousing.
And this is how... SEX GOES AWRY!
It all starts when a child is touched inappropriately by a pervert of some sort. When a child is touched inappropriately, THEY DON'T LIKE IT! They experience massive distress. But if their genitals are stimulated, they become sexually aroused. So what happens is, they come to associate things that generate the emotion they were experiencing, distress and revulsion, with sexual pleasure.
So when these children grow up, an orgasm means something different to them than it means for the average person. An orgasm isn't something that results from a happy situation, nor is it triggered by things that are aesthetically appealing. An orgasm is a coping mechanism that happens when they are faced with situations that evoke a certain type of distress.
The thing is, the orgasm creates more pleasure than the distress creates pain. So as a result, this person begins seeking out these situations that create this kind of distress.
And in their mind, the line between the victim and the perpetrator becomes blurred. It is still the same situation. Which is why people who were molested as kids grow up to be child molesters. These people seek to recreate the situation that originally created so much revulsion and distress in them.
Or they might not become child molesters. They might become sexually fucked up in some other way. They might not be interested in children, but nevertheless a seed was planted. A seed that makes them associate sex with something vile.
When children are molested, they do not like it! But they may get sexual pleasure from it. It was horrible, and disgusting, and made them gag and want to scream and die, but it felt good. And so the line between these two things becomes blurred.
There may be other ways this line becomes blurred, other than child molestation. Child molestation is just the most obvious one.
So once the line is blurred, it is up to the victim to keep the evil at bay. The person may be weak, and put sexual pleasure before other people. And when they act on their urge to do evil, they plant evil in others, through molesting children. Or they may unleash evil in some other form. This may be an allegory for something else.
Sex leads to evil because it is an easy way that pain and horror becomes linked with pleasure.
That is why God encourages sexual discipline and restraint. Because He knows that it is a crappy mechanism and that if people were go just give into their sexual desires, all hell would break loose.
I know about these things, because these are things that are obvious to me, but I'm not sure if they are obvious to other people.
Before you say, sex isn't evil! Let me explain. No, sex in itself isn't evil. But evil is created when sex goes awry.
So first off, what is evil? Evil is exreme hatred, disregard for other people, or pleasure derived from the misery of other people.
Sexual arousal is an emotion unlike other emotions. The reason it is unlike other emotions is because there is a greater range of variation in situations that trigger sexual arousal from person to person.
There is slight variation in other emotions, like sense of humor. Different people laugh at slightly different things. But sexual arousal is different. One only needs to google the word "fetish" or "sexual deviation" to find the great variety of odd things that people find sexually stimulating.
Some people think sexuality refers to sexual orientation. Sexual orientation is only a small part of sexuality. Sexuality is huge.
Sexuality develops early in life. The media influences your child's sexuality. From an early age, young girls and boys are bombarded with images of femininity and masculinity. These images and the child's response to these images become a part of the child's sexuality. That is why you better be careful what you let your kids watch on TV. Little kids are like super, massively absorbent sponges.
If a kid is sexually stimulated early in life, this will affect the child's sexuality. The moment will become ingrained in the child and be the basis for what the child finds sexually arousing.
And this is how... SEX GOES AWRY!
It all starts when a child is touched inappropriately by a pervert of some sort. When a child is touched inappropriately, THEY DON'T LIKE IT! They experience massive distress. But if their genitals are stimulated, they become sexually aroused. So what happens is, they come to associate things that generate the emotion they were experiencing, distress and revulsion, with sexual pleasure.
So when these children grow up, an orgasm means something different to them than it means for the average person. An orgasm isn't something that results from a happy situation, nor is it triggered by things that are aesthetically appealing. An orgasm is a coping mechanism that happens when they are faced with situations that evoke a certain type of distress.
The thing is, the orgasm creates more pleasure than the distress creates pain. So as a result, this person begins seeking out these situations that create this kind of distress.
And in their mind, the line between the victim and the perpetrator becomes blurred. It is still the same situation. Which is why people who were molested as kids grow up to be child molesters. These people seek to recreate the situation that originally created so much revulsion and distress in them.
Or they might not become child molesters. They might become sexually fucked up in some other way. They might not be interested in children, but nevertheless a seed was planted. A seed that makes them associate sex with something vile.
When children are molested, they do not like it! But they may get sexual pleasure from it. It was horrible, and disgusting, and made them gag and want to scream and die, but it felt good. And so the line between these two things becomes blurred.
There may be other ways this line becomes blurred, other than child molestation. Child molestation is just the most obvious one.
So once the line is blurred, it is up to the victim to keep the evil at bay. The person may be weak, and put sexual pleasure before other people. And when they act on their urge to do evil, they plant evil in others, through molesting children. Or they may unleash evil in some other form. This may be an allegory for something else.
Sex leads to evil because it is an easy way that pain and horror becomes linked with pleasure.
That is why God encourages sexual discipline and restraint. Because He knows that it is a crappy mechanism and that if people were go just give into their sexual desires, all hell would break loose.
I know about these things, because these are things that are obvious to me, but I'm not sure if they are obvious to other people.
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Truth is Beauty (Why God Allows Suffering Revisited)
So I have been sitting here thinking some more on the pain/pleasure thing, about why God allows suffering.
God knows that pleasure in itself isn't good, and pain in itself isn't bad.
God knows that what is good is truth.
As humans, we experience pleasure and pain to represent good and bad. When something unhealthy happens, we experience pain, of some sort. When something healthy happens, we experience pleasure, of some sort.
However, these indications aren't always accurate. Some people experience more pleasure than they deserve. Others experience more pain than they deserve.
God knows that what is good in this world isn't pleasure, and what's bad in this world isn't pain. What is good in this world is beauty. Beauty is something much more complex than pleasure. Beauty is altruism, and strength of spirit.
When beauty corresponds with pleasure and wickedness corresponds with pain, that is truth. Pleasure corresponding with wickedness is what is bad.
So, the reason there is suffering in the world is because the world is made up of humans, and humans are wicked. Of course, pain isn't distributed equally, the wicked don't necessarily suffer on Earth and the righteous aren't necessarily free from suffering.
Earth is a chaotic mess. But from this mess, comes order. Through this mess, God sorts things out, selecting and holding on to the righteous souls and discarding the wicked souls.
You are only as good as the way you would treat your worst, most despised enemy.
What is good? Is justice good? Or is mercy good? Do you think some of the most vile, evil characters from throughout history should bask in love and warmth and happiness for all of eternity? Or do you think they should pay for all the pain they have caused?
The truth is, heaven is oneness with God. God is pure good. To allow the most wicked, vile souls into heaven defiles God.
Evil souls will cause pain. Allowing evil into heaven taints heaven, ruining the experience for everyone. That's why it's better, for the good of everyone, just to cast them out.
People have free will. And like I was previously explaining, this choice is not random, nor fixed, but originates from something mysterious. This mysterious thing is the soul that lies within each of us. God can not look at an idle soul and decide if it is wicked or not. He has to test it. That is where Earth comes into play. The soul demonstrates whether or not it is wicked based on its thoughts and deeds. Souls are highly unpredictable and may turn sour or straighten themselves out.
If things I say ever sound contradictory it is because I am trying to straighten out what I believe.
Why God Allows Suffering: The Answer to a Stupid Question
So today I am going to answer the age-old question of: If God is so good, why does He allow suffering?
I am, of course, qualified to answer these questions, because I just know things like this.
The reason why God allows suffering is pretty much the same reason why we choose not to take drugs to go into an artificial state of bliss for the rest of our lives. It's the same reason why we choose the truth over a sugar-coated lie. It's the same reason why people pursue lives of value, and do things like dedicate their lives to science, to learning, to achievement, rather than lives filled with lowly pleasures.
Sure, God could have made a happy sugary fairyland Earth. But who wants to live in a happy sugary fairyland Earth?
Actually, I believe a lot of people would prefer it. Or rather, they think they would prefer it. But the truth is, God knows, for reasons that we don't quite understand, a world that includes suffering is preferable to a world filled with only joy, pleasure, and happiness. It's healthier. Because pain serves a purpose.
So yes, it is a stupid question. I'm sick of stupid atheists acting like the fact that the world is horrible and filled with misery and hardship is proof that God doesn't exist. It's not. Your arguments are invalid. Obviously you don't understand God like I do.
Complaining about the misery in the world is the same thing as complaining about all this discomfort one experiences during good hard exercise, and puzzling over why people go to the gym when working out can be so uncomfortable. "Working out is so uncomfortable, why do people voluntarily do it? They're either idiots or completely out of their minds!"
Well, obviously, it seems silly if you are missing a piece of the puzzle. Working out creates temporary discomfort, but leads to a more long-lasting mental, physical, and spiritual well-being. Pain and suffering in the world is uncomfortable, but it builds strength of spirit.
There is a reason why if you hurt yourself, you experience something unpleasant. There is a reason why everyone isn't automatically just born straight into heaven. People are born on Earth first. Why is that? What is the purpose to life? Only God knows.
Life isn't necessarily supposed to be fun. There are things I have done that have caused me pain that I don't regret. It's like I always say, "What kind of person would you be if you never had any hard experiences? A pretty fucking lousy person."
So in conclusion, God allows pain because PAIN IS HEALTHY!
I am, of course, qualified to answer these questions, because I just know things like this.
The reason why God allows suffering is pretty much the same reason why we choose not to take drugs to go into an artificial state of bliss for the rest of our lives. It's the same reason why we choose the truth over a sugar-coated lie. It's the same reason why people pursue lives of value, and do things like dedicate their lives to science, to learning, to achievement, rather than lives filled with lowly pleasures.
Sure, God could have made a happy sugary fairyland Earth. But who wants to live in a happy sugary fairyland Earth?
Actually, I believe a lot of people would prefer it. Or rather, they think they would prefer it. But the truth is, God knows, for reasons that we don't quite understand, a world that includes suffering is preferable to a world filled with only joy, pleasure, and happiness. It's healthier. Because pain serves a purpose.
So yes, it is a stupid question. I'm sick of stupid atheists acting like the fact that the world is horrible and filled with misery and hardship is proof that God doesn't exist. It's not. Your arguments are invalid. Obviously you don't understand God like I do.
Complaining about the misery in the world is the same thing as complaining about all this discomfort one experiences during good hard exercise, and puzzling over why people go to the gym when working out can be so uncomfortable. "Working out is so uncomfortable, why do people voluntarily do it? They're either idiots or completely out of their minds!"
Well, obviously, it seems silly if you are missing a piece of the puzzle. Working out creates temporary discomfort, but leads to a more long-lasting mental, physical, and spiritual well-being. Pain and suffering in the world is uncomfortable, but it builds strength of spirit.
There is a reason why if you hurt yourself, you experience something unpleasant. There is a reason why everyone isn't automatically just born straight into heaven. People are born on Earth first. Why is that? What is the purpose to life? Only God knows.
Life isn't necessarily supposed to be fun. There are things I have done that have caused me pain that I don't regret. It's like I always say, "What kind of person would you be if you never had any hard experiences? A pretty fucking lousy person."
So in conclusion, God allows pain because PAIN IS HEALTHY!
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
The Wonder of Consciousness: Part 2
So, consciousness is required to give a physical being a sense of identity and free will.
When we introduce free will, it adds what can most closely be described as an element of randomness to a being's actions. Of course, it is not truly random. But in terms of programming, that's what it would most closely be related to.
If there is not free will, there is no purpose to consciousness whatsoever. All consciousness does is add the random element. If a being's actions are predetermined beforehand, if every decision has a fixed outcome even before it is made, then all you need is the algorithms, which can exist without consciousness.
On one of the websites I was looking at it said that consciousness gives animals the ability to plan. I don't understand why you need consciousness to plan. You don't. You just need more complex algorithms.
Free will is something very small, but very powerful. Free will is limited by the way your brain is wired. Free will exists in your thought processes. When you make a decision, it starts with a thought. Which leads you to the next thought, and you have a very small range of thoughts that you are likely to choose. Free will is what gives you a range of thoughts. Otherwise, without free will, you would not have any choice at all and only one possible thought to follow the first thought. From the second thought, you choose a third thought, from the small range of thoughts. Each thought is like a node, and while the range of choice from thought to thought is very small, you go through many thoughts which increases the range of variation when it comes to the outcome, which is the choice you make in the end. It is the shear number of nodes or thoughts that make free will powerful. Just so you know, I am just making this up.
Free will is most closely related to randomness, but it is not really random. However, it is not fixed beforehand either. It is neither. It is based on the nature of the spirit.
What exactly free will is, we are not supposed to know. All we know is that it is not random, not fixed, not known by us, and it is something in existence that is very magical and sacred.
Now, imagine a universe without consciousness or awareness. It's something that's kind of difficult and amazing and mind-blowing. If it's not, than you aren't doing it correctly! Because, through imagining the universe, you are imagining how you would experience this universe without any sort of awareness. Except, without awareness there are no experiences. Things don't look like anything. There are no thoughts or concepts to describe anything. So if you are doing it correctly, you should just draw a complete blank, because anything you experience when imagining it is an experience and in this world there are no experiences.
And so when I think of this, I am reminded of how truly magical and extraordinary consciousness is. And I realize that consciousness is everything. It is the source of everything beautiful and good in existence.
If something exists that doesn't effect anyone's experience of anything, does it really exist? No.
And I am reminded of the quantum mechanics slit experiment thingy I don't know much about.
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? If a universe exists but no one is around to experience it, does it really exist? Did the universe really exist before life came about?
Yes. That's because God was around. That's what I think.
So I guess what I am trying to say is, consciousness is like the most fucking amazing thing ever. It is something so mind-blowing it is impossible to comprehend. That's why it amazes me that some people think it is just some accidental byproduct of life forms, that it serves no purpose, or it is just an illusion. What the hell? Yeah, I read that some people think it is just an illusion. How the hell could it be just an illusion? Like I think I experience things, but I don't really experience anything at all besides total and utter nothingness. God dammit some people are just so god damn fucking stupid.
Or maybe they just didn't understand the question.
When we introduce free will, it adds what can most closely be described as an element of randomness to a being's actions. Of course, it is not truly random. But in terms of programming, that's what it would most closely be related to.
If there is not free will, there is no purpose to consciousness whatsoever. All consciousness does is add the random element. If a being's actions are predetermined beforehand, if every decision has a fixed outcome even before it is made, then all you need is the algorithms, which can exist without consciousness.
On one of the websites I was looking at it said that consciousness gives animals the ability to plan. I don't understand why you need consciousness to plan. You don't. You just need more complex algorithms.
Free will is something very small, but very powerful. Free will is limited by the way your brain is wired. Free will exists in your thought processes. When you make a decision, it starts with a thought. Which leads you to the next thought, and you have a very small range of thoughts that you are likely to choose. Free will is what gives you a range of thoughts. Otherwise, without free will, you would not have any choice at all and only one possible thought to follow the first thought. From the second thought, you choose a third thought, from the small range of thoughts. Each thought is like a node, and while the range of choice from thought to thought is very small, you go through many thoughts which increases the range of variation when it comes to the outcome, which is the choice you make in the end. It is the shear number of nodes or thoughts that make free will powerful. Just so you know, I am just making this up.
Free will is most closely related to randomness, but it is not really random. However, it is not fixed beforehand either. It is neither. It is based on the nature of the spirit.
What exactly free will is, we are not supposed to know. All we know is that it is not random, not fixed, not known by us, and it is something in existence that is very magical and sacred.
Now, imagine a universe without consciousness or awareness. It's something that's kind of difficult and amazing and mind-blowing. If it's not, than you aren't doing it correctly! Because, through imagining the universe, you are imagining how you would experience this universe without any sort of awareness. Except, without awareness there are no experiences. Things don't look like anything. There are no thoughts or concepts to describe anything. So if you are doing it correctly, you should just draw a complete blank, because anything you experience when imagining it is an experience and in this world there are no experiences.
And so when I think of this, I am reminded of how truly magical and extraordinary consciousness is. And I realize that consciousness is everything. It is the source of everything beautiful and good in existence.
If something exists that doesn't effect anyone's experience of anything, does it really exist? No.
And I am reminded of the quantum mechanics slit experiment thingy I don't know much about.
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? If a universe exists but no one is around to experience it, does it really exist? Did the universe really exist before life came about?
Yes. That's because God was around. That's what I think.
So I guess what I am trying to say is, consciousness is like the most fucking amazing thing ever. It is something so mind-blowing it is impossible to comprehend. That's why it amazes me that some people think it is just some accidental byproduct of life forms, that it serves no purpose, or it is just an illusion. What the hell? Yeah, I read that some people think it is just an illusion. How the hell could it be just an illusion? Like I think I experience things, but I don't really experience anything at all besides total and utter nothingness. God dammit some people are just so god damn fucking stupid.
Or maybe they just didn't understand the question.
Sunday, March 17, 2013
The Wonder of Consciousness Part 1
So, I wonder about people. Mostly, I wonder about people who think that the world is just physical, not spiritual or anything else.
Because I mean, I think it is pretty obvious that there are non-physical things. Like, concepts. Concepts are non-physical. You can't touch them. They don't take up any space. There isn't a point in space where they are thought to be located. Yet, you can't really deny that they exist.
Then there are things we experience. Like noises, or tastes, or colors, or thoughts. Noises are present in the air. Tastes on our tongue. Colors on objects. And thoughts on our minds. But when we experience these things, we don't really experience them in these places. We experience them somewhere else.
We experience these things in our consciousness. Consciousness is not a physical thing. Consciousness is a spiritual thing. Self-awareness is a spiritual thing.
No person would seriously deny that we are self-aware. There is really no argument about this, since we all experience it and know it to be a fact. The weird thing I think is, everyone knows about the existence of self-awareness, but some people would argue that the universe is just physical.
So consciousness or self-awareness is spiritual. Question is, what does spiritual mean? To me, spiritual means something that has value beyond the physical.
I remember a person at Innercept telling me about something he would ask the residents about at Innercept. He has a plant cell. And he kills it. Physically, it is identical to a living plant cell. But the living cell works and the dead one does not. Something left the dead plant cell.
When we have thoughts, where do these thoughts exist? In our heads? Inside our skull?
I guess what I am trying to say with this post is, I think that the simple state of being self-aware is magical. I don't think humans will be able to find a way to reproduce consciousness, because it is something supernatural.
To me, the fact that we are conscious proves the existence of the supernatural.
What is the evolutionary purpose of consciousness? There's none that I know of. If you think about it, at least, if you think about it to the extent I have thought about it, I can't really think of any way that self-awareness could be an evolutionary advantage.
So I just looked it up, and I found some of the fucking stupidest reasons ever. Like, consciousness is an advantage because species that enjoy living are more motivated to live. That's the stupidest fucking reason ever. If we were more robot like, we could just be programmed so we would always do things to help us live. We would have no "wants." Obviously this person didn't understand the question.
But apparently, it is some debate what the purpose of consciousness is. They can't figure it out. But I can. The purpose of consciousness is so that people have the power of choice and free will.
At least, that is the reason is showed up in living physical creatures, so that when spirits inhabited them, they could make choices.
To be continued...
Because I mean, I think it is pretty obvious that there are non-physical things. Like, concepts. Concepts are non-physical. You can't touch them. They don't take up any space. There isn't a point in space where they are thought to be located. Yet, you can't really deny that they exist.
Then there are things we experience. Like noises, or tastes, or colors, or thoughts. Noises are present in the air. Tastes on our tongue. Colors on objects. And thoughts on our minds. But when we experience these things, we don't really experience them in these places. We experience them somewhere else.
We experience these things in our consciousness. Consciousness is not a physical thing. Consciousness is a spiritual thing. Self-awareness is a spiritual thing.
No person would seriously deny that we are self-aware. There is really no argument about this, since we all experience it and know it to be a fact. The weird thing I think is, everyone knows about the existence of self-awareness, but some people would argue that the universe is just physical.
So consciousness or self-awareness is spiritual. Question is, what does spiritual mean? To me, spiritual means something that has value beyond the physical.
I remember a person at Innercept telling me about something he would ask the residents about at Innercept. He has a plant cell. And he kills it. Physically, it is identical to a living plant cell. But the living cell works and the dead one does not. Something left the dead plant cell.
When we have thoughts, where do these thoughts exist? In our heads? Inside our skull?
I guess what I am trying to say with this post is, I think that the simple state of being self-aware is magical. I don't think humans will be able to find a way to reproduce consciousness, because it is something supernatural.
To me, the fact that we are conscious proves the existence of the supernatural.
What is the evolutionary purpose of consciousness? There's none that I know of. If you think about it, at least, if you think about it to the extent I have thought about it, I can't really think of any way that self-awareness could be an evolutionary advantage.
So I just looked it up, and I found some of the fucking stupidest reasons ever. Like, consciousness is an advantage because species that enjoy living are more motivated to live. That's the stupidest fucking reason ever. If we were more robot like, we could just be programmed so we would always do things to help us live. We would have no "wants." Obviously this person didn't understand the question.
But apparently, it is some debate what the purpose of consciousness is. They can't figure it out. But I can. The purpose of consciousness is so that people have the power of choice and free will.
At least, that is the reason is showed up in living physical creatures, so that when spirits inhabited them, they could make choices.
To be continued...
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