April 2020
I have been thinking about theism, and my own beliefs about forces beyond us. I think I should perhaps expend on my belief about Time. I have talked with someone who believed that, because of how many wonderful things there are in this universe, there must be something or someone beyond this reality. Something or someone that made everything work as they are. And perhaps that is true. But at the same time, perhaps it is not. I would be inclined to disagree as a reflex to disapprove of unfounded beliefs, but as I think about it perhaps it isn’t wrong either. The only thing I would disapprove of is if that person were to believe a God was behind all or most of the universe. I do not believe as such, personification of forces in such a way I do not believe is correct. The thing is, maybe that person does not think as God as a figure of flesh and bones, but more as an abstract construct, or an abstract nebulous entity. To me anyway that is what would “Gods” look like if they were a thing. And that is the difference with my belief: Nature being the one force we are bound to clash with and be free from. This I do not believe is any entity whatsoever, but more something along the lines of an abstract force. Call it omnipotent if you desire, but I do not believe it to be this way either. This would mean that this force would have access to parts of this universe it doesn’t have normally access to. However, if we are to believe the theory of the Big Bang, then imagine this: The singularity that made the universe we know and beyond it, all originated from the Big Bang. A single explosion so violent and extreme that we still are feeling the ripples of it to this day. Imagine that, before the explosion, that dot of matter originally was a small grain containing all of this creation. And when it exploded, it is as if it suddenly grew as a young sprout, every single entity born from it linked to the core of this explosion. Branches. And as matter formed, the sprout became a tree, and it matured. And eventually, that matured tree will die, this being the theory of the heat death. Would it be possible that at some point during this maturity, as Nature does its thing for living beings, that seeds fall and travel far enough, only to make a new Big Bang? And so, on this theory, what if the initial explosion creating an accelerating velocity for its entities are just those branches expending more and more to get away from the core, and to populate the rest of a vast emptiness with new matter? And on all of this, some say that perhaps Time was created by the Big Bang. And we know that Time flows differently here and there in the universe because it is tied to gravity, meaning being near a black hole will be very much different from “normal”. Time would go by much faster, and some theorize that if you were to be drawn towards the core of the black hole and looked outside the event horizon, you would eventually be able to see the end of the universe. And I find fascinating, that a black hole could just exist. Completely flipping rules of existence by itself. And on that, and to come back to the theory of the tree, what if black holes were cancer cells? Maybe the cancer theory would seem to harsh and possibly wouldn’t be making that much sense within the context of this. And so, what if black hole were not cancer cells attacking any healthy cells, but instead a self-defence organism that attacks cells before they degenerate and harm the entire tree, or a branch. Wouldn’t that also make sense that, cancer theory or self-defence organism, there would be more and more of them as the tree grows old? Around all of this, around Nature and its creation of matter and eventual life, what of Time? Time, I believe, is the regent of the universe. A universal constant that can be bent, but never broken. Not a law per say, as it is impossible to break it no matter what, but indeed a stretching and unbroken continuous line. That one thing that make everything function. It is completely and utterly impossible to imagine a life with the absence of Time. Nothing would happen, nothing would come out, no thoughts would be made, and eternity would not exist. Indeed, if Time were to disappear and reappear a thousand years later for example, none would be the wiser. If everything is bound to Time, and nothing Time is bound to, then Time is the regent, and it could be argued (as I do now), that Time is also a force preceding and overreaching all that is. It does not care, however, what anyone else does. It exists and advances in such ways that seem without purpose and aimless. But what if there was an aim to it? What if Time advanced for something? But how would it be possible to know? It is utterly, and may very well possibly never be possible for anyone or anything, besides Time, to know what the latter is doing. The only thing that would be acceptable because of its logic for anyone to do in context to Time, is to only wish for it to continue as we live our lives, and the universe continues this death and rebirth process. But there is something still, as humans, that we possess. It may very well be the ego of our race because of our belief of loneliness in the universe and its unknowns, but perhaps there is truth to it. Nature exists for some reason or another. Whatever the case, it does exist and we are part of it. It is the incarnation of the material and its metaphysical premises. What of us, however? The offspring from somewhere in some time that will be gone in the blink of an eye in relative to the total lifespan of this tree: What if we were not a fruit, and indeed were a cancer cell. Would that mean a black hole would eventually come for us? Or would we flee it and start to populate areas we weren’t supposed to at first, overwhelming the defence system of this tree? Eventually wouldn’t we be able to expend beyond this tree? But, if we are always bound to the material, and even if this life and death cycle could be repeated ad-infinitum, we would still be bound by nature in our DNA. So, would it be possible that, eventually, we forsake Nature and join a realm where we could understand Time? Would it be possible to ride alongside Time for however long, or however eternity it may be, if we forsake the material? This is only sci-fi talk, of course, but wondering about what could be is always fun. And, being able to talk in such ways about existential situations is quite a healthy exercise, I believe, to gain new perspectives and understandings on what is around us. Such theories can be applied to personal frameworks of thoughts and lifestyle to reflect growth and find new ways to interact with the world and our future. In the end, as humans, we are all linked in our DNA and our past. Advancing as a species is important, but first and foremost, and always, personal mortal divinity must be attained to go anywhere else. Ascension is priority in anyone’s life, and I believe that anyone refusing to be part of this growth is to be discarded, or if it is becoming a troubling factor in our growth, to be eliminated. Its divine essence squandered by the vices of Nature only attempting to stop this understanding of the world. But would Mother simply stop us from contacting Father for more than just its wish for control of its material beings?