Ah... Another post, preceded by another (previously sworn against) lack of activity. I make, as always, sincerest apologies, and likely need not explain the circumstances of the pause. And though the effort required to write at all is insignificant, I should only like to post with - indeed - significance. Thus, no promise will be made concerning the next post; but with hope, it will find existence sometime in the tangible future.
The post of now, however, is one of great significance - to me, at any rate. It may become, in the process of its creation, something blasphemous. But please understand that this is only for intellectual criticism; I've no intention of disposing my faith! Let us delve into the ultimate significance of life.
How might a Christian respond to this question? "The significance of life is to understand and appreciate God's creation and love for that creation, and to prepare it for eternal Heaven." A Hindi? "We live to achieve Brahman, through reincarnation along the Wheel of Life." An atheist? "There is no significance in life. We live and die; that is all." Many place life's ultimate meaning in religion (or lack of it), yet facts: what logically we have deduced and determined to be correct - tell us that such vague uncertainties cannot exist, that there must only be one ultimate purpose for our existence.
It is irrefutable that everything about us here, on Earth, is composed of matter. That things beyond Earth are composed of matter. That all we know of tangible is matter. We have even placed laws and comprehension on non-matter: energy, physics, and time itself. We have determined that our universe began from super-compression of matter, which, becoming so dense, violently exploded outward, quickly expanding. For us, this is the beginning of 'life'. From the Big Bang, the sun would form, followed by our solar system, the Earth within it. Single-cellular life, over millenia, would become cooperative, and these alliances would diversify: the land-dweller, the fish, the bird, the reptile. Soon, then, would come the human. And here we are.
And yet, this incredible matter - the basis of the universe - must have come from somewhere before the Big Bang. Surely it simply wasn't 'in existance'. And too, scientists have attempted to explain this; yet, no cause theorized by them is self-propagating, and all-encompassing. We've still no absolute idea from whence existance itself derived. However, even if this is answered, the (arguably more important) question persists: what was the reason for this creation?
Douglas Adams, a brilliant author, has stated that because humans evolved with purpose and logic foremost in their minds - essentialy that everything does something, and that all things have a reason for being done - they apply this pathway of thought to things beyond their comprehension. It could be that we haven't come across the meaning of life because we are incabable of understanding it, cognating as we do. But the prevalent theory is that of God. That it was his design that led us to be created. Persistantly, it seems, a similar question lingers: what was God's design? What is God's aim in this? And if God doesn't exist, then why exist at all?
And here we arrive at a stumbling block. I've no authority to pass any deeper into the topic. Yet, I shall. Lately I have considered the 'scalablity' of organizational levels of life. (Organizational levels denote levels of existance - the sub-atomic, atomic, molecular, cellular, organism, ecosystem, ecosphere, universal, etc...) Maybe it is that there is infinate scalability in these levels. That we, as multi-cellular organisms, are acting as cells for something greater than us, just as our cells exist for us, and their organelles for them, etc. And that what encompasses us is in turn encompassed by something else, and that in turn, for infinity; in both directions. If this is true, than, just as we have control of our cells, this 'infinitely largest level of existance' would have control of us, indeed all below it in this heirarchy. Therefore, this could be God. Perhaps all existance is working in harmony, to achieve what we have titled, God. Yet, boldly, still, the question: what is the purpose of 'God'?
I am quite determined that there is only one reason, ultimately, for this life. But as of yet, what that reason - that purpose - is, remains secluded.
