Black Spirituality Religion : You Are God - A Philosophical Essay on the Nature of Existence, Reality, and Immortality

[Your Construct]

New section. Very brief.

Section: Computer Programming And Its Correlation To Physical Reality

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Here is an image from a computer/video game. You can see a man holding a sword, trees and statues in the background. You can see the man's figure casting a shadow on the ground due to the bright sun on the left. The game has physics. It has NPCs. It has wild animals. It has a rudimentary morality system. It tells a story. There are numerous complex systems working together to make it all work. It is quite similar to our physical reality. And on its most fundamental level, it is made entirely with 1s and 0s. Complex systems can emerge from simple 1s and 0s. I have concluded, on its most fundamental level, our physical reality is created by the yin-yang symbol. Survival games have hunger and thirst mechanics, based on 1s and 0s. When we feel hunger, is it really due to the yin-yang symbol? Some games have magic, you can cast fireball spells against enemies. These magic systems are made from 1s and 0s. So magic in our physical reality would have to somehow emerge from the yin-yang symbol. In some computer games, you are a superhero that can fly; 1s and 0s... yin and yang. The programmers have created a virtual reality by writing it into existence with 1s and 0s. We create physical reality by writing somehow with the yin-yang symbol. The fundamental language of computers is known as binary, an electronic state is either on or off, 1 or 0. This implies that numerology, although considered more on the "magick" side of things, might have some type of logical basis.

 

[Your Construct]

New section. I have added it to the main essay. If you don't want to look for it, here it is.

Section: An Argument For The Existence Of The One Awareness/Great Mind That Creates Reality

I would like to stress, I am not presenting proof of the existence of the one awareness. This is an argument. Solid verifiable proof seems impossible. Let's take the physics of a free-falling object. We can all agree that if you take a rock in your hand and then release it, it will fall to the ground. We can all agree this is "natural" behavior. This natural behavior can be modeled with a Newtonian mathematical equation,

x = 0.5gt^2

x represents the vertical distance the object will fall when released, g represents the force due to gravity, and t represents time, which is squared. The 0.5 is nothing more than a constant. All objects released by hand will obey this equation. An object like a feather or piece of paper will have drag forces acting upon it, to account for that we add another term that takes into account the surface area, velocity, and density of the object; but let's keep things simple and just stick with x = 0.5gt^2. You can model this behavior inside a computer simulation. Here is my argument, a mathematical equation is not natural. A mathematical equation can only be created by a conscious mind. A mathematical equation has symbols and operations, symbols and operations are not natural. Symbols and operations are created. Let's go back to 65 million years ago. Dinosaurs are about to be wiped out and man's ancestors are tiny shrew like creatures. But what's really important is that language and math do not even exist yet. I believe the probability that an animal was eating something in its mouth and then accidentally dropped it to the ground 65 million years ago is 100%. The food the animal was eating fell to the ground and obeyed this equation, x = 0.5gt^2. This equation applied to an animal that didn't even have language or math or some type of counting system. For math to exist, language and symbolic writing would have to come first.

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The image above is from the movie Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan (image used without permission). It is a computer simulation of the Genesis Effect, most likely done with fractal equations. You see an ocean, terrain, snow, and mountains. It looks completely natural. But it was all created with mathematical equations. Mathematical equations are not natural, they are created. Does the equation, x = 0.5gt^2, look natural to you? I don't think it should, it's highly symbolic. But yet "natural" objects obey this equation.

These are known as the Navier-Stokes equations. They are used to model the behavior of fluids in three dimensional space. It's a bit more complicated than free fall as they involve derivatives. They are used to model weather, water flow, air flow, and used extensively in computer animation. These equations have been formulated with scientific observation and experimentation.

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Let's assume water obeyed these equations 65 million years ago before man even existed. There are only two philosophical possibilities; water obeys these equations or water wrote these equations so that water can behave the way it does. Either possibility requires a conscious mind. And only a conscious mind can create math, symbols, and equations. The shape of the continents of our earth, the movement of ocean currents, the forces of wind and erosion and plate tectonics all obey mathematical equations. I would have to conclude that our physical reality, our "natural" world, is being created by a conscious mind.

Let's say for example that for life to exist in a universe, the universe has to obey this equation

y = 2x + 1

Let's also constrain possible letters and say that only the letters x, y, and z exist; the four mathematical operations exist, add, subtract, multiply, and divide; and the "=" symbol exists. Let's also stipulate that the order or sequence matters. Here are possible outcomes:

Universe 1 creates "x" - no life
Universe 2 creates "y" - no life
Universe 3 creates "z" - no life
Universe 4 creates "x =" - no life
Universe 5 creates "x +" - no life
Universe 6 creates "y =" - no life, but it is on the right track
Universe 7 creates "y = 3" - no life, but was on the right track before it created the 3, this universe can still add more letters and operations but life will never occur, but there will still be consciousness, there will still be an awareness that knows it exists otherwise it wouldn't keep making the equation longer

Even the generation of "randomness" cannot occur without a conscious mind. "No pattern randomness" is still a concept, and a concept cannot occur without a conscious mind. For something to begin, or end, is a concept. For something to always exist and never have a start or ending is a concept. Again this is not proof, it is a deduction. If you want to call this conscious mind God, Allah, Brahma, The Great Spirit, or Howard, go ahead; but don't use this conscious mind to justify your atrocities, perpetuate fear for people not in your religion, or spiritually manipulate them. My suspicion is that this conscious mind creating reality is us. This argument fails if mathematical equations can occur naturally without consciousness, and mathematical equations occurring naturally without consciousness would itself be a concept.

 

[Your Construct]

New section. I have included it within the body of the main text. If you don't want to look for it, here it is.

Section: The Fluidness Of Reality

I am going to briefly recap a fictional comic book storyline and how an aspect of it may manifest in physical reality. This story is called "The Last Viking". It was written and drawn by a man named Walter Simonson, who is a very gifted storyteller. This story was in the Thor comic book published by Marvel Comics. Comic book Thor and movie Thor are pretty much the same person, he is the immortal Norse god of thunder who exists in the modern age. Thor hears a "summoning", the words used for the summoning are ancient and should not exist in the modern age. Thor investigates and ends up flying all the way to the south pole. He finds a warm caldera filled with hot springs, plant life, and animal life; a type of oasis surrounded by the daunting ice and cold. He encounters an actual viking who challenges Thor to the death because he wants to enter Valhalla. Instead of fighting, Thor desires to hear the viking's tale. The heyday of the vikings was 800 to 1050 AD. Through numerous twists of fate, some vikings ended up in the south pole. They discovered the isolated caldera and decided to settle down and live there. Their community survived for many generations up to the modern age, completely isolated from the rest of the world. The last viking was a direct descendant of those vikings who discovered the caldera a thousand years ago. Now is it possible that because of this fictional story, explorers might actually discover viking artifacts in the south pole someday? Just a thought. So a lie created for spiritual deception could actually come true. Many religions have end times prophecies. I'm curious to see how this all turns out and to what degree religious prophecies can come true.

 

[jamesfrmphilly]

So basically you are saying all living things deserve heaven and God's love except cows, pigs, and chickens?

and shrimp, don't leave them out

 

[Your Construct]

jamesfrmphilly, you crazy! So have you changed your mind and decided to try out immortality or what? I think it'll be pretty cool. I'm working on a new section.