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All the big questions answered.....

#2010701 - 10/15/03 03:42 AM (22 years, 10 months ago)

Ok here are the true and right answers to the really big questions (most of them...at least in my mind)
1. what is the meaning of life? A. The meaning of an individual's life is that meaning which the individual assigns to it. As for the ultimate funtion of reality, i can only guess at that, and say that i think it is just that god/the system whatever u wanna call it is trying to know itself completely, by exhausting all possiblilities, or by putting itself partly(us and stuff) or entirely in all possible situations (how else could u know yourself completely unless you had experienced everything that could be?)

2. Does god exist? A. Well depends on how you define god. IF you define god as the first cause or creator of everything then yes, because even if the system is self created, that means it is its own first cause, and by defualt the system is god. If you define god as some grey haired bearded gentleman who is all powerful then no he does not exist, though if there were such a gentleman, and he atleast believed he was all powerful truely and completely then for all intents and purposes that man would be god (in his own mind, but what other reality is there?)

3. What is the nature of being? A. Oneness...its all energy folks, just different colors, flavors,patterns, whatever, but its all energy, even you. Thus there is only one thing "You" or no thing "you". At best we are just ripples on a cosmic pond (and only probility waves at that). There is only "is" or "is not"

4. Do we have free will? A. No. True free will would mean that you made decisions randomly without any regard for circumstance. Even a system in which there is some degree of underlying randomness you still dont have then kind of free will that most peaple believe they have (or would like). the combination of your genetics, and evironment push you in all different ways and the strongest pusher in any instance will choose your path for you, the quantum effects will also be pushing and in an instance of complete indecision may be the deciding factor. Example: You go on a hunger strike to protest something, your body says eat, but your mind which is formed through a combination of your gentics, probably some randomness in neural connections and then environment in which your neural connections were formed says that you must not eat so that you can make your point. So you have your desire for food verses your desire to make your point, which ever is stronger will make your decision for you, And those desires will in turn be caused not by free will but by other previous forces. the free will we would all like is the kind that would let you decide not to eat even though you desired to eat more then you did to protest, that kind of free will doesnt exist, we may not always admit to ourselves that what ever action we took was motivated by the strongest desire, which was inturn caused by the strogest force or combination of forces pushing on us and so on, but that is the way it is. At best we have an element of chance and the fact that we are unable to predict the future with absolute accuracy, so will at least can cling to our illusion of free will. Everything is predermined by the initial conditions, or it is being determined by the initial conditions and an element of randomness, but no free will, atleast not the kind you want.

4. IF god is all powerful and perfect how can evil, or bad things exist/happen? A. assuming the premise of a perfect god is correct then there is no good or bad, just what we percieve to be one way or the other, also/or there are only three possible ways in which something can be truely perfect, first if it is "no thing/nothing" or if it is the only thing and it is completely the same throughout, or if it includes everything (including evil, if such a thing exists)Now here is a mind blower... The universe includes everything(so its perfect?) its is the same through out (on a basic level it is all energy) out side the universe there is nothing (can there be anything outside the universe? and if there is nothing, nothing is the same through out so it still meets the conditions of perfection)

5. Is there life after death? A. As Einstein said, there is atleast in so much that everything we are (energy/matter) cannot be destroyed. Even conscienceness is some form of energy thus that wave/waves will propigate through out the stystem for all time, and they will effect the state of the system constantly and for all time. Everything you are and everything you do lives on in one form or another forever.

6. What is the nature of time? A. Zeno's paradox (and the associated math) says you can never reach your destination because you will always have to traverse half the distance before you get there, but then half that distance, and so on and on and on, so you never get there, just very very close. This ofcourse does not jive with our reality. So there are two possiblities, our reality is an illusion, and there is no arrow of time, everything that ever was still is, everything that is has always been, and everything that will be is right now and always was. Or our math is wrong. Our math is wrong seems more plausible doesnt it? but if you read up you'll probably find that most of the evidence points to the other conclusion. If time occured in increments like a second hand ticking on a clock, zeno's pardox would hold true, so ok time flows constantly right? well is being debated, but it has recently been suggested that to actually have a perception of a constant flow of time, time would have to NOT exist. This was discussed in a recent and contriversial paper, i cant remember the details but the authors arguements for time not existing in order for us to be able to percieve what we call the arrow of time were fairly logical and convincing. Also its been proven that some subatomic particles seem to pop into the past, future and present, and that they can be essentially everywhere at once, and if i'm not mistaken its beginging to be believe that this is a fundmental part of our reality, that all things are everywhere at all times, bascially that everything exists as a wave of probability, and only be comes real by collapsing the wave function at a particulare "time" and "place" for lack of better words. We find what we're looking for when and where we look for it, and it isn't real till we observe it, untill then everything is held in a state of quantum superposition, meaning it is and is not at the same time, or its here and there at the same time, and thats how things really are.

7. Did i leave out any big questions? A. I dont know thats why i'm asking.

Ok so thats they way it is people, if these answers were not definative enough for you i'm sorry, but sometimes the only true answer is that we just dont know...completely, or yet.
Just another ripple on the cosmic pond,
Dave
p.s. Meditate!!!!

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