| The Cycle of Birth, Death, Rebirth to Enlightenment We are born to live a life and then we die. That much is certain. But why? Why does a baby get born with only 2 heart beats then to die? How come the biggest rogue you've ever known lives to a ripe old age seemingly without sufference? What if that was part of the plan? Does this mean it was supposed to be like this? Imagine a warehouse full of bank vaults. Each of the dials are reading at a different number. Now each will need a different permutation in order to be opened. What if our lives were like that? The difference is that, each permutation becomes a life. So a baby born with 2 heart beats is merely experiencing a necessary life (or combination of circumstances to make up a life), so that it can lead to be "opened". Keeping the analogy. The opening could be enlightenment. Now some people - or I should say souls as the "people part" is really only the bodily wrappings of the soul - will need an almost infinate series of permutations in order to be opened while some are nearly there already. This could account for an unearthly maturity in certain young people with an immaturity in some of their older peers. Those mature enough will have advanced their combinations and are preparing for "opening". This idea of opening is common to many faiths: Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism.When all souls are open the cycle of life is ready to begin again. The idea of the Big Bang has advanced to the point of auditory echoes of it being detected by contemporary science. This would equate with the idea of the cosmos being like the outbreath of a macro consciousness: a god. The out breath was Big bang. The next "in breath" will result in an implosion taking everything with it into the densest mass possible. This has happened before and as Rudolf Clausius (1822-1888) described in his second law of thermodynamics: Energy cannot be created or destroyed. Matter is a part of energy. Potential energy. Destiny ~ Karma Vs Free Will The matter is never leaving the confines of the universe. Its characteristics are preordaned. Now if we accept that we are composed of compounds originating from this finite matter. All of our composition, including implict parts such as thought and feeling are mere components of a bigger machine. Free will? I see this as a loaded gun. Both my father and I have lost nights of sleep arguing this age old dilema: free will vs destiny. On the one hand there is the argument that, we are different from animals as we have the capacity to make decisions and have choices. I wondered this as I looked down in a garden to see a colony of ants. It looked superficially random but then I could see an order about the way they collected food and provisions. Reflecting on this I hypothsised that if a huge being from the planet Jupiter: proportionate to that world as we are to this, looked down at us they would note similar pattens of movement and behaviour. Now from our perspective the patterns are invisible and feel very random. What is we are all following a pattern - not of our own design but of a universal machine so vast we would not comprehend it? Loaded gun? Well a being so small as humanity, when placed in the perspective of our own solar system is smaller than the head of a pin, by comparison. For something so small to be given sole charge of something as powerful as free will feels very naive. A creature unable to maintain its temper without useing weapons every day, to assume itself to be the only "intelligent" being having free will seems egotistic and gullible. |
| A New Ideology |
| This page we will explore topics such as: The Cycle of Birth, Death, Rebirth to Enlightenment Destiny Vs Free Will What if God wasn't a Nice Guy |
| What if God wasn't a Nice Guy? We are the only creature that has a word for "good" and "bad". Under this we have national views of what is good and bad, then regional, then local, then familial to finally personal. So far those 2 words are wide open to debate and misinterpretation: Hot weather is good vs Cold weather is good. So we load our humanistic value judgements onto a deity (creator). But what if human notions of good and bad are proportionate to storms in a teacup. What if God transcends those very notions. As a creator it would have made them anyway. I have already discussed karma. If we accepted that our very atomic building blocks are for some other purpose. Then what is to say that our miniscule perspective on goodness and badness may be used without what I would call "cosmic consideration". This would help toward dispelling anger from the shopkeeper who gave you less change than you were owed. Again I draw your attention to the baby with 2 heartbeats. This would be the baby's Karma to endure this in order to fulfil the potential of its soul. "Grieve not for the dead as you would not for the living" Bhagavavad Gita |
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