In the Beginning
WE MADE IT UP
...Almost all of it… We really did. First (maybe), there was the Big Bang. Our universe (and maybe others) was born. After billions of years humans evolved on this planet we call earth. At some point, some members of our species developed the ability to reason. As this ability grew, we simply began to “make things up”. We developed labels for the things we encountered. We developed systems for describing things and communicating information about these things. We called this language. We discovered ways to quantify things. We called this math. Once we had language(s) and math, we had the ability to make up a lot of stuff.
Nothing we have created (made up) has changed any essential truth about our universe (or has it). The fundamental building blocks of our “reality” are still the same, no matter how much our labels tend to obscure them, or how much we try to delude ourselves that we can alter these fundamentals to suit our desires (or can we).
The mission of this conversation is to cut through the jungle of things we have made up, in order to get to the essence of existence. Perhaps we’ll all be a bit less confused. If we keep digging, if we keep thinking, if we keep asking “why?”, perhaps we can see our way to a clearing where we are not overwhelmed with all the manipulative nonsense that is thrown at us each day. If we keep cross-referencing the things we think we know, with other things we think we know, we can weed out those things that just don’t fit.
Remember: Information is the death of knowledge.
In this way, we can test the validity of our knowledge, spark new ideas and uncover old ones. Hopefully, all of this leads to a logical, critical-thinking approach to analyzing all of the information we receive.
Maybe we can help some people, including ourselves, to understand life more clearly. Perhaps we can strip away many of the man-made labels to reveal the actual essence of the many experiences we encounter in this realm.
Maybe, just maybe, we can gain an acceptance of the actual human condition, using this as a platform to truly address the condition of humanity. Maybe…