As we age the world shrinks around us, drawing us ever closer to a singularity. This is as it should be, a natural course in nature. It is the completion of another cycle but it isn't the end. It will begin yet again with or without our awareness. I'm certain of the continuation, not necessarily my part in it. It is a driving question in my mind, will I know? Will I know when I have passed? I think the majority of us believe we will know. The majority of us also believe we rejoin old friends and family. Isn't that the picture we have? That has been so in most societies throughout history. It is something the ancients surely pondered, not just modern intelligent man. Do animals and other forms of life do the same? We can't know that. What does man know of intelligent life? I'd suggest it is a lot less than what we believe it to be. There are just too many mysteries yet unsolved to make many boasts. Too much we do not understand.
Science tells us it all began with a singularity. Man has always known that. It is just a common sense thing really. Man has spent thousands of years attempting to define and prove this theory. Thing is, it isn't a theory at all, just a simple fact. Everything begins with a singularity. It is the chicken and the egg argument. It is the defining of that singularity that is the puzzle, not the fact of its' initial existence. God always was, and always will be. A fact beyond mans' comprehension. It's true, we aren't that smart. Will we ever understand that? I don't believe that we will. The struggle is to believe. Acceptance of truth is not always an easy process. This is especially true when truth become inconvenient. It is then we search for excuses to deny that truth. We try to alter the circumstance. We may even deny the truth altogether! The fact of the matter is, it all begins with a singularity. Faith begins with you, a single person. But then you may argue it takes two to make one. That's a valid observation as it does take the joining of two to create one. This is true in nature, in the majority of cases anyway. whether that joining is pollen in the air or mating. It does require two. The two forms one. So, you argue if it takes two to make one, how can it begin with a singularity?
We don't know is the simple answer. While science is so busy offering proof and evidence of that singularity, there is no explanation forthcoming. Science will never explain the singular. We may alter the circumstance, we may alter biological processes, but we can't create the singular. What is that singular thing we can not create? Energy is the answer. Ask any scientists that question and the answer is always going to be the same. We can only change the form of energy. It is a conversion process! Energy is a singular entity! You can not combine two energies to create one new energy. All you can do is convert one form of energy into another form of energy, it remains energy! Energy is life and life is energy. It can not be created or destroyed only transformed from one form to another!
In its' essence isn't that what man has always known? Even before man could explain why the sun rose in the morning man knew that. Isn't that why people believe in medicine men, shamans, prophets and philosophers? The belief being those folks can somehow alter energy, make that energy useful to their purposes? They can redirect energy in some fashion. Energy being defined as the ability to do work. Make that energy work for your personal benefit. Same reason we pray incidentally.
We find ourselves questioning the singular. That is because it is something we don't understand, something we have no experience with. The nature of man is to fear what we don't understand. It is a built in survival tool, programed into our being. Death is a singularity! We are certain of that. That is why all the emotions surrounding that undeniable eventuality. It is true even with the knowledge that we will continue because you can not destroy energy. The mystery being where does that energy go and in what form? Will the next transformation arrive with an awareness? There are many reports that it does from those that stood on the doorstep. I believe that, and believe it will arrive in an instant. It will be a single moment in time, and time is infinite.
Science tells us it all began with a singularity. Man has always known that. It is just a common sense thing really. Man has spent thousands of years attempting to define and prove this theory. Thing is, it isn't a theory at all, just a simple fact. Everything begins with a singularity. It is the chicken and the egg argument. It is the defining of that singularity that is the puzzle, not the fact of its' initial existence. God always was, and always will be. A fact beyond mans' comprehension. It's true, we aren't that smart. Will we ever understand that? I don't believe that we will. The struggle is to believe. Acceptance of truth is not always an easy process. This is especially true when truth become inconvenient. It is then we search for excuses to deny that truth. We try to alter the circumstance. We may even deny the truth altogether! The fact of the matter is, it all begins with a singularity. Faith begins with you, a single person. But then you may argue it takes two to make one. That's a valid observation as it does take the joining of two to create one. This is true in nature, in the majority of cases anyway. whether that joining is pollen in the air or mating. It does require two. The two forms one. So, you argue if it takes two to make one, how can it begin with a singularity?
We don't know is the simple answer. While science is so busy offering proof and evidence of that singularity, there is no explanation forthcoming. Science will never explain the singular. We may alter the circumstance, we may alter biological processes, but we can't create the singular. What is that singular thing we can not create? Energy is the answer. Ask any scientists that question and the answer is always going to be the same. We can only change the form of energy. It is a conversion process! Energy is a singular entity! You can not combine two energies to create one new energy. All you can do is convert one form of energy into another form of energy, it remains energy! Energy is life and life is energy. It can not be created or destroyed only transformed from one form to another!
In its' essence isn't that what man has always known? Even before man could explain why the sun rose in the morning man knew that. Isn't that why people believe in medicine men, shamans, prophets and philosophers? The belief being those folks can somehow alter energy, make that energy useful to their purposes? They can redirect energy in some fashion. Energy being defined as the ability to do work. Make that energy work for your personal benefit. Same reason we pray incidentally.
We find ourselves questioning the singular. That is because it is something we don't understand, something we have no experience with. The nature of man is to fear what we don't understand. It is a built in survival tool, programed into our being. Death is a singularity! We are certain of that. That is why all the emotions surrounding that undeniable eventuality. It is true even with the knowledge that we will continue because you can not destroy energy. The mystery being where does that energy go and in what form? Will the next transformation arrive with an awareness? There are many reports that it does from those that stood on the doorstep. I believe that, and believe it will arrive in an instant. It will be a single moment in time, and time is infinite.
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