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Basically this is how I started thinking about the subject:
I was reminded of the 4 forces that act on atoms during a science video today in school. And I was struck again by the similarities to the four forces of nature and their similarities.
Certainly these forces are comparable. And its interesting to think how close to science the earliest human guess about elements is to some laws that define all atoms and the elements they compose. But that doesnt mean anything in the long run, and I quickly ran out of ways to compare the two subjects.
This led to my questioning the existence of many parallels. Such a similarity in science and religion? Im always reminded of the phrase "two sides of the same coin" when I come across such situations. Could religion help explain science? Is the answer to a lot of confusion that we simply havent added the two equations together?
Can a thought, or emotion be explained through sequence of physical matter?
Could thought and emotion be our only true claim to something deeper... Where
does our very world come from, or much less ourselves? If we where not created
by another force, what might we have created?
Why is our physical being never satisfied with what you can only touch? What
Else does it want to feel?
Crossing Lines Thoery
Lets pretend you belive in a two sided reality. One is a world of physical substance, the other a world os spiritual being:
This is how I have come to view the world.
Area B is the part of the spiritual world witch we posses, the part that has leaked into our world and why most humans believe they have a Soul. Thats the spiritual and mind part of our world. The ability for a thought to exist, and our ability to question our own existence is part of what makes us spiritual.
Lines 1. And 2. are death and rebirth. Its these forces that stress the lines between our physical world and our spiritual senses. These are the "outside force" that you could call god, or the overall essence of life.
The physical world is our physical reality. While the spiritual side is the "afterlife". If the after life is truly what connects our conscience being with higher spirituality then reincarnation seems highly likely. A cycle is more probable then a big black empty nothingness after death, because we have a mind and ability to think, we must be able to reason one question "where does it start". Its difficult to believe that the ability to question something so unanswerable comes from nothing and ends up turning back into nothing.
Finally a spiritual world must exist. This is where a parallel worlds theory become more of a hypothesis. But it stands to reason that if Area B is a part of the spiritual world, then area A must be a part of the physical word. If nothing is substantial in the spiritual world, then perhaps this is what causes the perception of mind. The ultimate mind over matter, physical objects only exits in your mind in the spiritual world.
But whose mind? Well, again you could only guess. But if we each have our own minds in this world, then the opposing situation is that we are all of the same mind in the next.
Interestingly, if a small tie between these worlds exists then spirituality might be able to alter our physical world. The irony of divine intervention actually being the human will breaching the line of separation between worlds..
This would mean that a single person in the physical world can not change the spiritual world other then changing the physical, under the mathematics that the opposite holds true for the spiritual.
This is where I explain Good and Evil.
If the human will is the embodiment of the spiritual world, and there is life after death, would there be true good and evil? Possible, the very act of harming another being would be harming yourself. But is that so powerful that we have formed a perception of good and evil? Is self destruction the enemy of reality?
Yes.
If you refer back to my original diagram of the 4 forces, you can see that there is something called the "strong" force. This is basically a magnet that is both + and -. If they are not attached then they repel each other, if they are attached they very strongly resist separation. If our reality is two worlds that share those characteristics, then all forces work in the direction of maintaining our current cycle.
The end of our sentient existence might actually remove the stress of these two worlds interacting, thus ending the effect of the strong force, unraveling the universe. When we are no longer able to perceive reality, it may no longer exist. Therfor Evil lives up to its name, and the opposite holds true to Good.
Thats my theory in a nutshell. I will be damned if I can prove it, but twice over if anyone can prove me wrong.
Any questions?
This post has been edited by BobTD: 10 October 2005 - 09:14 AM
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