For years, maybe because of the history I have lived, I have moved between atheism and something else. Maybe atheism is a relative term used to define the perspective of disbelief from which one views a said religion/deity. This isn't a scientific post, and is not intended to sound the call of reason, if reason is what one calls it. Nowadays I am leaning towards something else, and is something I can't ever properly describe. I am going to try my best here. It may, to some sound quite simplistic, but it feels quite firm in reality. The FACT, the undeniable FACT, that we are here, along with the Universe around us, is proof that there is a higher power. The FACT that we feel a myriad of emotions, and can be conscious of our existence and the existence of the Universe around us, in all its vastness, is proof.
Science will explain how, and I don't deny science, evolution, or the myriad of theories proven. Science, however, is emotionally and morally neutral. The universe is neutral. Humans, however, and who knows what else dwells in the universe, are not morally neutral, but are constantly deciding (often failing) right from wrong, and feeling joy, pain, anger, jealousy, rage, love, compassion, and sadness. There. And that is where I will leave it. There was a comment regarding emotions being simply chemical reactions made somewhere on the web and it left me deeply perturbed. I frivolously responded "Oh that's all well and good, but we mustn't devalue all human emotions to being simply chemical reactions, as purely physical manifestations. Go ahead, give everyone a pill and stop all emotion and feeling," and left the post behind. The whole thing touched upon something I had taken great issue with, the struggle to hold on to morals and ethics in a field which is increasingly devaluing the soul of the universe to chemical reactions-- science. The irreconcilable (or are they?) differences between science and the Soul, and morality.
The inability for either side to see a melding, maybe something that isn't either black or white. Something that isn't the Abrahamic Sky God, and not the preposterous notion that just because the Universe creates itself theoretically that there isn't a higher power at work, guiding it, or that it is a part of the All. What is beyond All? Here we are again, staring into infinity. Infinity. Mirrors creating endless halls. I recommend Chris Hedges' book When Atheism Becomes Religion, only so that anyone who has read the Four Horsemen has a counter-argument to moderate the extremes.System of a Down said the spirit moves through all things. In my experience, it does. And I will not debate this any more, as somehow I have developed a deep revulsion for the devaluation of everything to a strictly material existence by science. It is disconcerting, and makes my skin crawl. This is the thing Monsanto is made of. That old movie with Tim Curry, The Fly comes to mind as well. Science setting out to disprove the spiritual existence, destroying all moral compass, will destroy us all. Am I nuts for thinking that it is truly "mystical" that everything exists? Good. I am proud to be a card-carrying member of loonytoons. Most Atheists debate black and white. Extreme religion to extreme anti-god. There is no middle ground between dinosaur-denying 5000 year old earth believing Creationists, and stark mathematical science. Neither of these sides, in my view, see the forest, for the trees.You can acknowledge that science is true, without devaluing the sanctity of existence and recognizing this magnificent manifestation for what it is: a flourishing grandiose miracle. Trillions upon trillions of stars.
Science will explain how, and I don't deny science, evolution, or the myriad of theories proven. Science, however, is emotionally and morally neutral. The universe is neutral. Humans, however, and who knows what else dwells in the universe, are not morally neutral, but are constantly deciding (often failing) right from wrong, and feeling joy, pain, anger, jealousy, rage, love, compassion, and sadness. There. And that is where I will leave it. There was a comment regarding emotions being simply chemical reactions made somewhere on the web and it left me deeply perturbed. I frivolously responded "Oh that's all well and good, but we mustn't devalue all human emotions to being simply chemical reactions, as purely physical manifestations. Go ahead, give everyone a pill and stop all emotion and feeling," and left the post behind. The whole thing touched upon something I had taken great issue with, the struggle to hold on to morals and ethics in a field which is increasingly devaluing the soul of the universe to chemical reactions-- science. The irreconcilable (or are they?) differences between science and the Soul, and morality.
The inability for either side to see a melding, maybe something that isn't either black or white. Something that isn't the Abrahamic Sky God, and not the preposterous notion that just because the Universe creates itself theoretically that there isn't a higher power at work, guiding it, or that it is a part of the All. What is beyond All? Here we are again, staring into infinity. Infinity. Mirrors creating endless halls. I recommend Chris Hedges' book When Atheism Becomes Religion, only so that anyone who has read the Four Horsemen has a counter-argument to moderate the extremes.System of a Down said the spirit moves through all things. In my experience, it does. And I will not debate this any more, as somehow I have developed a deep revulsion for the devaluation of everything to a strictly material existence by science. It is disconcerting, and makes my skin crawl. This is the thing Monsanto is made of. That old movie with Tim Curry, The Fly comes to mind as well. Science setting out to disprove the spiritual existence, destroying all moral compass, will destroy us all. Am I nuts for thinking that it is truly "mystical" that everything exists? Good. I am proud to be a card-carrying member of loonytoons. Most Atheists debate black and white. Extreme religion to extreme anti-god. There is no middle ground between dinosaur-denying 5000 year old earth believing Creationists, and stark mathematical science. Neither of these sides, in my view, see the forest, for the trees.You can acknowledge that science is true, without devaluing the sanctity of existence and recognizing this magnificent manifestation for what it is: a flourishing grandiose miracle. Trillions upon trillions of stars.
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