To the rational and open minded.
“Perfection: God is defined by many religions as the 'perfect Being' (omniscient, omnipotent). I would state that if there are no absolutes then everything is in a state of Becoming a Something or Becoming a Nothing. Creation then becomes an act meant to self-realize or self-correct against the ravages of temporal and spatial fragmentation (entropy).”
Yet are not absolutes necessary to allow for these contingent qualities?
Absolutes are human projections (ideals); the extreme or exaggerated presented so as to ascertain one’s own identity in relation to it.
Identity is built on what the unity/organism is not. I am that which I am not.
It’s a negation.
An absolute is a secret desire to end existence, to finally Be and stop Becoming – it is the death wish masking as positive or negative idealism.
This is why all ideals and all religions are Nihilistic. They deny life, as it is, and dream/hope for a utopia which is complete: inert.
If life is a product of the flux and experiences this flux as need, and if need is interpreted by the conscious mind as suffering, then life is suffering to various degrees.
Pleasure is the momentary distraction or satiation of need which diminishes suffering to a level where we are not conscious of it. It the begins rising in volume, once more, becoming consciously perceptible and, if left unsatisfied, turning into suffering and pain.
Contentment is ephemeral.
This is why suffering is relative to the mind’s experience with it and relative to the unity’s energies in coping with need.
When need is within the organisms coping levels then it isn’t perceived or considered suffering at all.
In so much as most macroscopic objects behave in a way which is reversalable, you are correct that cause-and-effect can be reversed without a problem. Yet if this was not necessary, why is it consistantly observed? Moreover, is this not necessary for Becoming Something and Becoming Nothing?
The reason why we can only experience one temporal flow – that which is characterized by growing entropy – is because life and matter is a reaction to it. It is an ordering to the disordering or a resistance to disorder - suffering being the awareness of this stress.
The hardness or softness of matter (its substance) is determined by how well it resists entropy.
Life is a sophistication of this resistance by sacrificing hardness for flexibility (adaptation). It remains self-correcting, trying to constantly repair the ravages of time/space upon its unity and finally succumbing to attrition (temporal inevitability creating Nietzsche’s
resentiment).
This makes memory possible; memory being the ordering of experiences and sensual information and then passed on to future generations (knowledge) or used by the organisms itself (experience).
In the opposite temporal direction the reaction to it would be disordering to the growing ordering, which would make life and awareness impossible. Life would be superfluous in that temporal flow.
The reaction to lessening entropy would be 'a disunity trying to resist by disordering itself' – a self-contradicting concept.
The negation of the positive
The flow is occurring simultaneously - the
Big Bang and
Big Crunch or the flow towards
Something and
Nothing, but we can only experience one temporal direction giving rise to the myth about cause and effect, produced by thinknig (Temproal succesion of awareness – flow of thinknig = The succession of thoughts, producing the ideas of past/future and cause/effect) ) and resulting in the delusion of beginning and end.
This is where religion places its flag and the desperate billions follow – lost and needful of hope and a purpose.
In fact the concepts of ‘God’ and ‘Satan’ are personifications of the concepts of ‘Something’ and ‘Nothing’.
Existence, as we know it, occurs in this intermediating state and can only focus towards one direction by ordering experiences and analyzing them after the fact - life is lived forward but experienced backwards.
When we remember or speak of a ‘here’ or a ‘now’ we are, in essence, referring to an arbitrary point in space/time which is past (lacking a temporal/spatial possibility - possibility set or frozen in memory). We talk about a moment in the past which is contained within our human perceptive speed and determined by our mental ability to perceive and store details.
Even the idea of a ‘self’ is in reference to the past.
With our every choice, and in combination with the choices or chance occurrences happening simultaneously around us, we establish a reality and determine a
self.
This is often referred to as Will.
We become aware of the consequences of our choices after we’ve made them.
The beating of our heart, our breathing is this constant Willing observed after it has occurred and thought of as being separate from us.
This is because consciousness lags behind Willing. We Will our Becoming constantly and interpret our own decisions and our environment (the relationships of other Wills upon our own), after the fact.
This is what makes reality an imprecise abstraction and why man is forced to live within his own awareness.
Man experiences living by abstracting it and analyzing it after it has already occurred. When man speaks of reality or truth he is speaking of what is no longer reality or truth, due to the ongoing flux.
When I say ‘I’, I am no longer the ‘I’ I was referent to, but the ‘I’ that I was when I started formulating the thought.
The mind can only analyze information when the information has been perceived (pattern recongition), stored (ordered) and abstracted into models (reality).
This gives the false impression of an external guiding hand.
Furthermore self-consciousness is characterized by the separation of a piece of consciousness to study the rest or observing one’s self as a reflection.
The eye cannot see itself as the mind cannot think of itself.
It separates a part of consciousness and observes the remaining parts, as if it is at a distance or an unaffected observer.
This creates the delusion of soul or the mythological duality of mind/body.
Mind and body are manifestations of the same thing in different contexts.
Notice the distance between the words ‘self' and ‘consciousness’ connected by a {-}.
This is where human frailty steps in and uses this metaphorical distance to place gods and spirits and imaginary separations and entities (soul/spirit).
Spirit is but the totality of one's Becoming.
The mind isn’t separate from the brain.
The mind is the brain, just as the body is a projection of its compelte essence.
The mind is a manifestation of the same thing in time as the body is in space.
Appearances say something about what appears.
There is no hidden
thing-in-itself.
The redness of a flower is not separate from it but it
is the flower – it is an aspect of the essence of the particular flower.
Man’s senses may lack the ability to perceive the totality of a phenomenon but this does not mean that it is hidden.
Color, shape, form, texture, smell, odor are all informative and generalization of what is.
They are not superficial but only their interpretations are.
If our senses were erroneous then we would not be able to function within a reality which evolved them, in the first place, to facilitate existence.
“This myth causes the need for a starting point and an end point, a beginning/end and is often used as an excuse for imagining a creator who is then imagined (hoped) to require neither, in a leap of blatant double-standard thinking called faith. ”
It would stand to reason that at least one starting poing, even if non-linear, would be needed, no?
Why?
And what, then, would be the “starting point” of that starting point?
The universe is infinite because it lacks an absolute.
If an absolute were possible it would have ceased Becoming and, therefore, existing.
Once you begin talking about a 'start' or an 'end', just like when you start talking about a ‘here’ and a ‘now’ you are setting yourself up for an infinite gradation or deconstruction/construction because such concepts are imagined generalities with no real meaning. As figment of the human imagination they can never be realized.
Man has free-will only if there is no meaning to his existence to determine and constrict this Will. Otherwise all is determined and man a player in a farce.
A singularity drops out of ‘reality’ because it approaches the absolute but never reaches it. If it did it would suck up the entirety.
The idea of perfection presupposes the idea of the inert. That which is complete, absolutely stable, perfect is unmoving, unchanging, lacking a temporal spatial character: inert.
“Life, as a reactive enterprise, can only exist as we know it in this temporal direction (the tumbling into Nothingness or towards an absolute Nothing – decay. Disordering being a human interpretation of growing entropy) which is characterized by constant growing fragmentation of the forces that inter-relate to create the ephemeral unities we call matter or life.”
Does not this contradict your two-way street approach to causality?
Not if you consider life as a reaction to growing entropy.
We can only exist and experience one direction, even if the flux might be flowing in every direction.
