I am God.
Anything goes.
This is God
speaking, not us. The words spoken are
indelible. They bestow the power of
existence upon a central concept – which is the nature of God, unknowable. We, on the other hand, are human. We are not a singularity as is the core of
all creation. We are humble before our
vulnerabilities. We think of need. What need is there of God? Can God feel need as we do? God feels need in all its forms as we do because
God created need but God has no need.
What need
have we? It is lonely not being
loved. It is more lonely having no one
to love. We are not content with our
singularity as we might suspect God is in being simply one. Yet, is it safe to say that all action
requires a need? What is it we do that
is not an expression of need? What need
would God have in establishing creation?
What could God possibly be without fostering action? This God may exist but without action there
is nothing to know.
Is a feeling
a form of action? Is thought an
action? Thoughts do not simply die. They spawn new thoughts. Moving from one thought to the next is
action. Some of these thoughts result in
physical action – an object moving through space that requires a passage of
time. Each physical action behaves much
like thoughts – they inspire another act, both physical and mental, which at
some point produces a physical result. Any
physical act creates a change in physical existence. The change may well be infinitesimal but,
like thoughts, the course of existence is modified… if ever so slightly. This imprint, slight as it may be, will
result in producing further imprints. An
ant carrying a grain of sand across the beach leaves an impact too small to be
detected by us. The tiny piece of sand
is loaded with microorganism whose prosperity is changed for better or
worse. Is its new home drier than
before? Is it shaded from direct
sunlight? Will it now be fed on by a
burrowing worm? If so, what is the fate
of all those microorganisms?
We can live
our lives well without knowledge of atoms and their particles. Yet, the actions of atoms impact our very
survival as conscious objects of reality.
They also impact the nature of our consciousness. We are dependent in all manners on the actions
of billions of infinitesimals. Because
atoms are each a physical entity they each create a physical result that, in
turn, influences a myriad other physical results. Each action is the cause of other actions
that grow new actions in a geometric progression. No entity can possibly grasp the meaning of
such events except for the entity we identify as God – who, incidentally, is
beyond being an entity because God cannot be contained within our limited
concepts.
Imagine a
God having need? What need is satisfied
through the creation of existence? Why
did God choose to act as opposed to remaining an unknowable presiding over the most
spectacular, absolute nothing? The God
of pure void reigns as nothing for
eternity then, suddenly, a single action is taken and pell mell the action
spawns two and two becomes four and four becomes sixteen and at such a rate
existence explodes from nothingness to become the physical and consciousness realm
of our reality within the space of an instant.
This realm is action and without action existence disappears. Action is the basis of all that is
knowable. In this sense all Being is procured
through action. All that is is revealed
by actions taken.
The initial
action spawned by God need not be resulting from need. All actions taken subsequent to the first exist
to fulfill a need. Beneath every
identifiable cause and effect exists a need.
Needs establish patterns. Once we
discover a similarity of need we label each similarity as a principle or rule
that cannot be defied.
For every
action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
The net
action on a body is equal to the product of its mass and its acceleration.
These are
rules decreed by God that are more basic to the physical realm than are the Ten
Commandments. God is not beholden to
such rules but does the nature of the physical realm reveal anything about the
nature of God? After all, natural facts
express something of God’s chosen actions if not God’s intent. In our sense of reasoning an entity’s actions
says something about the nature of the entity.
Thus, existence expresses something of God’s nature. If we were to say that all creation reflects
God’s will then we are espousing human logic to gain our understanding. This underestimates the problem of man
understanding God. The one rule of God
is that God abides by no rule. Nothing
we can think about God strictly applies.
At best we have only intuitive inklings.
And what of this intuition? We
can say it is biology’s form of having an autopilot
default setting that is molded by countless generations of evolutionary
pressures.
We might
even say intuition reflects a presence of the divine within each of us. Consciousness itself may have first developed
from intuition. Consciousness reaches
beyond biologically-based knowledge into new areas of learned understanding and
appreciation. The human consciousness acts
as an agent of change to a human’s surroundings. Humans exploit this power to manifest change
reflecting human need. We fashion our
realm as we see fit. Often we say we are
acting out God’s will that we do so. The
truth of this has no meaning. God
enables us to know only as God chooses.
Existence
depends on actions. There is nothing to
define without action that is renewed
only by new action. What, then, is the
basis of action? For a realist with
limited imagination actions are identifiable events that proceed through time
in a chain of cause producing effect.
Absolutely rational – a human explanation for all events proceeding within
our realm in a linear fashion.
To know beyond
what reason reveals for us may
require our dipping into the bewildering truth fashioned by the irrational. Actions stemming from irrational thought make
for often arbitrary results because effect does not logically follow cause. What rules, if any, apply to a thought process
deliberately irrational? Irrational
thought used to achieve rational goals is a mistaken thought process. Irrational thinking best serves irrational
goals. What better irrational goal is
there than taking action to achieve nothing or something of no good use? Since it exists can we not say irrational
actions serve to equally describe the nature of God as does actions of reason?
Let us end
by concluding that every falsehood proves its own truth. Such is the process of Godly thought. It’s simply beyond us.
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