Things To Come Back To

[*Original date – September 2016]
Related: reality, importance, determining absolute examples
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[Inspired some reading “Confucius – the secular as sacred”]

What is right is what doesn’t break the mechanism.

What is right (or good/comes from the truth) is what doesn’t break (or damage/go against/”grind”, unless for the purpose of improving) the mechanism (a good and efficient system)

Ideas like “right and wrong,” “good and evil,” etc. are ones that I’ve kind of started distancing myself from. They’re so subjective, and scale can change everything. However, the closest things that I’d call universally “good” are progress and improvement – the act of moving forward. We’ll periodically return to this idea and expand on it as we address other points.
The next part of the statement says “is what doesn’t break.” But before I can explain this, I have to explain what it is that is breaking. The “mechanism” is a metaphor for society ~ everyone works together like gears. There’s a few levels to this metaphor.

First, just like our own technology/mechanisms, society is continually going through change.
¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤
[Long tangent sort of relevant, but too wordy]
~A few discussion points come out of this change. First, though we may make the mechanism of society at a given time “state of the art,” our understanding of how things work grows, so there is always a need for “upgrades” or changes. However, just like with upgrades and changes to our tech/tools that we use and are familiar with, there is pull back since it’s new and unfamiliar. This can slow down progress and dictate when society is ready to change and improve as a whole.~
¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤
One reason change is necessary is because, though a mechanism or system may be designed perfectly, ideal conditions might not be available and there may be improper use. Because of this, general upkeep and little “tune ups” or clarifications to the system/mechanism are required between big changes or “upgrades”.

I’m getting tired, so I’m making a quick bullet list of my main ideas
Breaking/damaging the mechanism is related to the idea of “improper use”
Improper use due to ignorance is different than improper use for personal gain/malicious reasons.

Even beyond that, breaking the mechanism/system for the sake of seeing what happens is another level to look at.
-the previous three points bring interesting/complicated questions in regards to being good/right/etc. We can always learn from experiences (and thus setting the foundation for future progress), even ones resulting from people damaging or misusing the mechanism that is society.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ideas on perfection: When you think about it, the idea a perfection is appetizing. However, I hate perfection in practice. To me, perfection is boring.

First of all, when something is perfect, that means we can’t learn anything more about it, and it can no longer be improved on. From an engineer/scientist’s, this is both boring and could put me out of a job.

Second, when something is perfect, that means it can be perfectly replicated. So what makes something special is the flaws.
Third, the idea is imperfections and intrinsically found in all things (looking at perfection from a materials perspective)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Different levels of enjoyment and how it’s relayed to different levels of consciousness
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The idea that scientists/engineers are the best models to fulfill their purpose -> they are most efficient at answering question & collecting data/info.
Related? The idea of “god” creating the universe to see how we would react to it being similar to the idea of artists creating art to see how people react
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Our ability to extrapolate/make assumptions/interpret data, how this makes us unique, and how these both can have positive and negative effects
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I’m writing this down due to an interesting reaction I’m experiencing. I was skimming through news article titles, and got drawn into the story about a (woman – in par’ces b/c not sure if related to the cause) Mexico mayer who was shot to death in her own home on her first day in office. I don’t know why, but this story just weighs heavy on me. The actual writing wasn’t too compelling, but something about the narrative itself presented in the article made me feel incredibly sad. But it was more than just sad. It was a sorrowful disappointment (or maybe a disappointing sorrow); a tightness, like a fist reaching into your chest, slowly gripping until it feels like you can’t breath.
I wanted to write this down to see if i can narrow down the reasons I had such a strong reaction to this random story. Does it have to do with disappointment in crime throughout Mexico? Maybe it’s the fact that her chance to make a change was taken away before she could even try. Looking at it from pretty far away from this line of thinking…
Coming back to switching levels of perception/POV Look at the teachings of reiki The act of performing reiki: Going to (or opening yourself up to) a higher level and bringing that energy back down Also consider what/how/why techniques like grounding and meditation do/work You use grounding to reset when you feel out of control. 2 initial thoughts came to mind:
1) you are bringing yourself to a “lower” level of perception. Things become smaller, and your reality becomes your surroundings rather than your thoughts/worries.
2) it’s interesting that you put your feet on the earth to… point to sky… meditation (finish previous idea if you remember later).
In raising your level of perception, you are able to better separate yourself from your physical self. This may sound like high/whimsical/mystic language and ideas, but what I’m really describing is daydreaming. However, as you continue to raise your LoP, imagine you are climbing up a latter. The further away from the ground, the more unsafe, unsure, and/or unstable we become. And once we get too afraid, we have to ground ourselves, else we risk falling off the ladder. Also, our level of prep affects how high we can “climb the ladder” or raise our LoP. Continuing with the ladder metaphor, it’s like quickly setting up the ladder on uneven ground vs flat ground vs putting a sandbag down to hold it in place. One way of preparation could be mediation (*a little side note, just like you can get a lot of stability by having someone hold your ladder, you can get to a higher LoP with the help of someone else, i.e. a reiki master/performing reiki)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I have a viewpoint that there is nothing inherently evil. Something that just came to mind to think about is the idea that the bible often describes god using the seven deadly sins (e.g. jealous, wrath) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
My catalytic personality ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“God’s” meaning for life -> and how my interests are starting to line up with it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
God vs. Higher dimensional beings. God would be the rule of the universe, the natural laws, the code that determines all outcomes. However, we confuse “god” with powerful higher dimensional beings. So the judaic “god” would actually just be a higher dimensional being, not the actual god of our universe. He has powers far beyond ours, even to the point that he can alter the natural laws. However, he is not all powerful due to the fact that he must change the natural laws before doing something that would break them, this breaking the universe
-also, “god” answers the question “why?” while a higher dimensional being answers “how?” What I mean by this is god can answer any question that starts at the beginning, similar to “what would happen if I did ‘x’ then ‘y’, and why does it happen?” whereas higher dimensional beings answer questions at the end like “how do i make ‘x’?”.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Bigger than infinity The idea behind this stems from the assumption that the mind is infinite. This is still a really early thought, so most of my ideas on this subject are mostly half-thoughts, incomplete, and very ambiguous at this point. In the instance of infinity, all things are possible. Among these possibilities is that something is impossible. This “impossible thing” is what is bigger than infinity ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The importance of logic to emotion and vice versa -logic to emotion corresponds to an object and a force. -logic has a bit of a physical property to it, or rather it follows a particular physical law – inertia -logic tells us that if something is working, we should keep doing it -if we are in a progressive state, we will continue to progress…….slow down ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~\\\\~ The ability to see multiple wavelengths of position probability -> YouTube pbs idea We naturally filter out the less probable positions, but that doesn’t mean we are not observing the less likely positions. Mankind has developed multiple ways to turn off these filters in order to get a more complete and true picture of the world -these range from natural to chemical: mediation, drugs, religion/spirituality, science (we create machines that don’t filter out the data we want, eg SEM microscopy) The big bang imagined as an explosive underwater -slowmo guys inspiration ~would explain the vacuum of space
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
What if we are actually able to create new forces, physical phenomena, etc. just by imagining them. Things we describe as magic, through the combined efforts of everyone, become real in the form of science.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I tend to borrow the feelings of those around me. I think this might have been something that has been going on since i can remember. The reason for this is because i would either have too extreme or incorrect/no responses to different stimuli, but i was smart enough to notice how different i was. As i borrowed feelings, i began to study the subtle differences between emotions that people tend to group together (e.g. sad vs depressed). Funnily enough, my initial trouble with understanding feelings has required me to study feelings extensively, and turning into a very important and powerful tool for me to get through life. Some benefits include: ability to read people, ability to hide my emotions from people/make them think I’m feeling something else (this makes me very difficult to read), and the ability to artificially induce and control feelings (this let’s me quickly adjust to new/unfamiliar situations – if i don’t know what to do, i induce feelings from another experience), among other things. -i tend to make up characters for different situations. Though most of the time a base set of personality traits stay with me, but the motives and responses of the character become my own. That’s why I’m so confident that i can do anything as long as i make the right character for the situation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I think my subconscious might have more control over my life than i thought. I’ve had a feeling calling to me for awhile now, telling me i was ready to move on from case, but my rational side refused to accept that possibility. Maybe my subconscious put me in that state because i was going against my actual wants or it knew i was done there -i guess David Bowie did this too. He describes how he would get bored and move from project to project, never making an identity for himself. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*whenever i use the terms “god” “heaven” or anything religious, I’m not implying the Christian view of the world is the correct one. I just tend to use these words to describe complex and abstract ideas since i was raised catholic and these are the most familiar examples of abstract ideas. If you want, you could easily replace other religious ideas (as i did by mentioning reincarnation), or another way that is more palatable, such as more scientific/mathematical concepts. For example, often when i say “god” when I’m writing, I’m actually referring to scientific ideas, such as god representing the big bang, the natural laws (or the “code” of our world), the concept of evolution, the concept of infinity, and the universe itself. The reason for this is because if you look at how people describe “god” and try to make it work with our scientific understanding of the universe, you see that there is a lot of overlap. For example, god created the universe and life = big bang and evolution. I could i explain this more and provide more examples, but I’m too tired right now. What people think hell is might actually be earth. When i say this, I’m not implying everyone here is getting eternally punished, but rather that we confuse earth with hell. One image or definition i often use for heaven is the state of being in perfect unity with god. You are so close to him that you experience him completely. So how does this relate to my initial hypothesis? Well, when we die, our consciousness goes towards good to reconnect with him. However, do to God’s perfection, he is unable to take in something imperfect. Your consciousness may remain near (which i assume feels great), but you will never be able to be truly one with God, and thus never achieve true and everlasting satisfaction. So in order to get rid of the imperfections, the consciousness returns to some reality/world/simulation to better itself. This process repeats until the consciousness is complete and perfect.

As I was writing this, two thoughts come to mind.
1) The process that i described is very similar to reincarnation, with nirvana representing heaven.
2) The more I described this, the more i realized i was describing purgatory.

So if I described purgatory, what would hell be? Well if heaven is a perfect and complete unify with God for eternity, then hell should be the opposite, i.e. the total and eternal separation from God. I’m not sure how this would look/feel/etc. One possibility is complete and total destruction of one’s consciousness. The reason this makes sense to me is due to the parable about getting paid a day’s wage no matter how long you work. So this means that, as long as you are able to think, you will be able to turn towards the path to God.

*expanded-idea: i don’t believe that we will ever truly get into heaven, ie be one with god for eternity. However, I believe that it is possible to become unified with god, but no matter what something will happen that will result in you separating away from him, if only temporarily. And there are a few reasons for this.

1) That would explain how life/creation/the big bang happened: before the big bang, there was one perfectly unified “thing”. Since we can only distinguish something relative to another thing, this state of unity would actually be a void of nothingness. Another way to look at this is through matter. The only way particles can be destroyed is when it collides with its exact opposite particle (eg matter & antimatter or electrons & positrons). I may come back to this idea, but I’ll move on for now.
2) I don’t see things as inherently good or bad. The only thing that i world consider calling truly good is progress/improvement. The want to not only know, but to improve and create is what drives us humans. We are continuously trying to moving forward, and we feel incomplete when we no longer can.

This may also relate to the idea of hell being the point your consciousness gets destroyed. When your consciousness loses the ability to move forward (towards god, perfection, infinity, progress) it no longer has a purpose. As everything else continues to move forward, the consciousness is left behind, being swallowed by the darkness that is nothingness. It is engulfed until it becomes indistinguishable from the dark nothingness. At this point, the consciousness is gone, but more than that. As far as everything else is concerned, it never even happened. That consciousness did not exist. This is a really complex and abstract idea, but i may expand on it in the future because I’m already starting to see how this can help solve some holes in my understanding of time, infinity, multiverse theory, and a lot of others. I may have stumbled upon a very powerful tool ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Pendulum theory vs. Metronome theory