Random Rambling of the Month.
The universe is neither infinite nor immortal, but it is incredibly vast and cumbersome in it's frenetic and spasmodic occurrences.
With this in mind let us assume for the moment that the universe as a whole is a single living entity.
It does, after all, fulfill most if not all of the requirements that we have arbitrarily set in place to define life...
It grows, it consumes, it produces, it dies, so it stands to reason that (for our purposes at least) the universe is alive. One gigantic, impossibly complex, convoluted, organism which is convulsing at once with the spasm of birth and the throes of death.
It further occurs that this organism must feed on something, or more likely on many things.
Now physicists (the more creative ones), when confronted with this hypotheses will reason that the black hole could be a phenomena that supports this (either as a cosmic maw or a waste disposal), and they could be correct. But residing as we do in the comparatively minuscule part of the mostly unknown universe that seems to support what we generally consider to be life, one has to wonder if it's possible that the "food" (for lack of a better word) of the universe might be just slightly more complex and intangible than the contents of the average periodic chart.
Suppose (if only for the sake of the current amateur dissertation) that the source which drives and feeds the universe is sentient (or at least semi-sentient) cognition and sensation. (i.e. fear, love, pleasure, pain, longing, rejection, hunger, thirst, desire, dismissal, hatred, satisfaction, pride, depression, etc.)
If these emotions (feelings, instincts, etc.) are the "food" of the universe, then it seems to follow that the fundamental chemical and environmental stressors which drive these emotions (etc.) are the means by which the universe (as a single living entity) secures it's food supply.
If we accept this as a viable hypothesis, it follows that uncontrollable, emotionally charged situations are simply the necessary means by which the universe as a symbiotic host organism regulates it's food supply.
In short, bad things happen to good people and good things happen to bad people because the universe demands emotional instability in tribute for our continued existence, and as a necessity of it's own continued existence.
So when you love someone and they break your heart, when you are indifferent to the affections of another, when an utterly unworthy individual attains a position of power, when you see the best and brightest being sold as a commodity for far less than their worth, when you hear the worthless and corrupt demanding more for less, when the weak are exploited, when the strong are ignoble, when the skies darken and the sun burns black, when the waters rise and the crops fail, when you are mistreated, when you mistreat others... Or conversely when you are in love and loved in return, when your luck holds, when all the omens are auspicious, when your ideal of justice is supported, when your ship comes in or you find a lucky penny, when the stars align and all is right with the universe...
Take heart, and try not to take it or yourself too seriously...
It probably just means that the universe is slightly peckish, or possibly a little constipated.
"Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point."
-Arthur Shopenhauer-
With this in mind let us assume for the moment that the universe as a whole is a single living entity.
It does, after all, fulfill most if not all of the requirements that we have arbitrarily set in place to define life...
It grows, it consumes, it produces, it dies, so it stands to reason that (for our purposes at least) the universe is alive. One gigantic, impossibly complex, convoluted, organism which is convulsing at once with the spasm of birth and the throes of death.
It further occurs that this organism must feed on something, or more likely on many things.
Now physicists (the more creative ones), when confronted with this hypotheses will reason that the black hole could be a phenomena that supports this (either as a cosmic maw or a waste disposal), and they could be correct. But residing as we do in the comparatively minuscule part of the mostly unknown universe that seems to support what we generally consider to be life, one has to wonder if it's possible that the "food" (for lack of a better word) of the universe might be just slightly more complex and intangible than the contents of the average periodic chart.
Suppose (if only for the sake of the current amateur dissertation) that the source which drives and feeds the universe is sentient (or at least semi-sentient) cognition and sensation. (i.e. fear, love, pleasure, pain, longing, rejection, hunger, thirst, desire, dismissal, hatred, satisfaction, pride, depression, etc.)
If these emotions (feelings, instincts, etc.) are the "food" of the universe, then it seems to follow that the fundamental chemical and environmental stressors which drive these emotions (etc.) are the means by which the universe (as a single living entity) secures it's food supply.
If we accept this as a viable hypothesis, it follows that uncontrollable, emotionally charged situations are simply the necessary means by which the universe as a symbiotic host organism regulates it's food supply.
In short, bad things happen to good people and good things happen to bad people because the universe demands emotional instability in tribute for our continued existence, and as a necessity of it's own continued existence.
So when you love someone and they break your heart, when you are indifferent to the affections of another, when an utterly unworthy individual attains a position of power, when you see the best and brightest being sold as a commodity for far less than their worth, when you hear the worthless and corrupt demanding more for less, when the weak are exploited, when the strong are ignoble, when the skies darken and the sun burns black, when the waters rise and the crops fail, when you are mistreated, when you mistreat others... Or conversely when you are in love and loved in return, when your luck holds, when all the omens are auspicious, when your ideal of justice is supported, when your ship comes in or you find a lucky penny, when the stars align and all is right with the universe...
Take heart, and try not to take it or yourself too seriously...
It probably just means that the universe is slightly peckish, or possibly a little constipated.
"Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point."
-Arthur Shopenhauer-
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