To Build a House on Saturn

In a recent conversation with two close friends I posed the question, “How would you build a house on Saturn?” Since it is impossible to view anything objectively, I find it best to view the world through metaphor. Since it removes oneself 1 step form the issue at hand, I feel that this allows one to view the situation 1 degree more objectively.

The issue at hand was of foundation. All things which stand on earth are built upon a foundation, likewise our perception of institution or organization is foundation based. When a business forms it lays a “foundation” for its processes just as it lays a foundation for the physical structure in which it will house it’s offices. I think that this is because of our perception of truth. Truth for a business is monetary gain, so its foundation is a set of outlines and processes which are believed to be necessary to gain monetary gain. One foundation may be “We need clients.” Another may be, “We need employees.”

The Church operates via this same model. Christians generally agree that God is truth. They set up foundations which they believe are necessary to seek and know God. One foundation might be the Bible, another might be prayer.

When a building is constructed on Earth a foundation is necessary. There is a mass of soil and rock standing between our buildings and the gravitational center. On Saturn this is not the case. Saturn is a Gas Giant, meaning there is no solid ground, it is simply gas caught in the gravitational pull produced by the gas itself. It is a cyclical/mutually necessary relationship. The gas would not create gravity if it were not amassed by the gravity it creates. On Saturn one could not build a house upon a foundation because there is no ground in which the foundation can be poured. Objects also do not descend to the center of Saturn due to the equilibrium effect. Every object finds mass equilibrium as it travels toward the center. The Equilibrium effect is the effect of density of a mass upon objects within that mass. Like ships  in water. Ships, although heavier than water find equilibrium with the water because the air in them is much less dense than the water, and therefor the total density of the ship is less than that of the water.  So, if an object was twice as dense as the gas on the outside of Saturn and half as dense as the gas in the middle, and the arch of density was constant then that object would find equilibrium half way between the outside edge of the planet and the center.

So how would you build a house in such a place? I would like to suggest that we are not, spiritually, living on a Terraform, like Earth, but a Gaseouform, like Saturn.

If Truth is the gravitational pull then I would assume you would want to be as close to the center as possible. Knowing that we are human and are, therefor not Truth perfected, we cannot reach the center on our own. We are not “dense” enough, but never the less the center is our goal. Why then would we build ourselves foundations on which to stand? These foundations would only serve as barriers between ourselves and the center which pulls us.

I think the answer here is to float, not aimlessly, but propelled toward God by the gravity of his Truth. Vulnerable, exposed and without control, I suggest we float as far as He brings us, without house, without foundation and without a safety tether. Leave the building on the surface and dive toward God! Unless God is a lair, you will not be drawn off course by the pull of an adversary mass so long as you seek Him, because those who seek God, find God.

How do you build a house on Saturn? You don’t, you go for a ride, and try not to drive but allow for the leading of God’s gravity. He will find your equilibrium.

In His Head

I think we are all figments of God’s imagination.

Reduce anything and you will reach energy.

What is mind? Mind is energy.

To think is to move electrons around on your brain. Your brain is simply energy amassed.

To imagine is to conger a creation in your mind.

That creation is physically nothing more than energy moving about; just like us.

Is it so far fetched to recognize than we, and everything in our reality, is exactly the same as everything we imagine? Understanding this begs the question: is it so far fetched that we are operating entirely within the mind of a greater being?

After all, we are said to be “like” God, so as it is in our mind, so is it is His.

If our thoughts are wholly energy, so may be His. We are wholly energy, so we may be His thoughts.

Everything I Know is Wrong

Do you ever wonder for what it is that you are being prepared?

A strange blend of scientific mindset mixed into a spiritual framework; I didn’t always understand that I had a spiritual framework but it was and is true non-the-less.

As a child I questioned everything. It tended to get me in trouble at school, but I do not regret a single question. Is it enough for someone to tell you that something is? Have they earned the right to profess reality?

Who told Sir Isaac Newton that he had the authority to proclaim the, “Laws of Physics?”

Who told Einstein the he had the authority to balk at them? I’m glad he did, because he found Newton flat wrong. Who will find Einstein “wrong?”

The Church silenced Galileo when he asked questions and the religious leaders did the same to Socrates.

You know that you breathe Oxygen because your elementary school teacher told you so. She knew it because her teacher told her so. Keep counting back until some guy decided it was so. Who gave him the authority to decide we breathe oxygen?

If the Earth wasn’t round, would it change your life?

If time wasn’t flat, would it kill you?

Everything we know is based on the assumption that the people before us got it right. We operate solely within the framework into which we were born. What if somebody was wrong? People are wrong often, right?

Christians tend to get freaked out by change. Change, by definition moves an entity. Deeply rooted objects resist moving, many times, to the point of death. In the circles that I run, reality is questionable. I am a Deconstructionist.

If we seek stability like a tree, we are destined to a ripping, tarring death as the earth beneath our leaves shifts and disappears. Do we rely on the Church: a deeply rooted entity, built on the assumptions of past men? Or do we rely on Christ, the definition of divine perfection, removed from our feeble, fleeting reality.

I am suspended by the knowledge and love of Christ, swinging above the abyss. I am not rooted in this imaginary, energy field we call time and space. Cling to your roots, cling to your traditions, cling to your world; or cling to the God who told you that you are not meant for this life, but for the next!

Pragmatics and Christianity

It has been said that the biggest problem with Christianity is Christians. I agree. Not all Christians, but enough, have reduced faith to the pursuit of Heaven. Or, more accurately, evasion of Hell. Unfortunately, in my opinion, this mentality has stolen the joy of faith and is killing Christianity all over the world. The modern worldview told us that the quickest way from point A to point B is a straight line, and that the fastest way is the best way. The problem here is that you miss all of the stuff between point A and point B. This stuff that we miss is the point, not Heaven or Hell. When we say that heaven is the point, we have made Christianity a selfish pursuit and tell everyone else quite literally that they can go to Hell.

I’d like to suggest that making God’s world a better place by loving everything in it, is the point.

We live in the stuff between point A and point B. Lets act like it.

Energy and Spirit

I’m not sure if I have publicized yet my feelings about the nature of spirit. I realized in my post concerning reality that I left a bomb in explained. I made the claim that energy is spirit. I stand by that claim. Here is how I explain it.

I believe that we are all eternal, spiritual creatures; that we are confined to our physical existence for a time and that we will return after our time here to our purely spiritual existence. I make this claim based on my understanding of the divine personality we call God through his avatar Jesus and what is recorded about his live. For convenience sake we will refer to the divine as masculine. Now, my understanding of God is that he is the sculptor of all physical things. If this is true then all of our reality belongs to him. I also believe that God, like other artists, expresses himself in his creation and spiritually permeates are reality. If he spiritually permeates all things, then God is quite literally in everything. Since I believe that God is greater than the sum of his creation I will refer to the part that permeates us as spirit.

Now if spirit permutes all matter then what is spirit? What is the basic building block of everything in our existence? Energy. Energy is both a wave and a particle, unique in that quality, and yet it is found at the base of everything you can and can not imagine. What holds molecules together? Energy. What is the power by which things operate? Energy. What can not be destroyed? Energy.  I am energy, you are energy, it is energy that lights the LEDs on your screen and it is energy that delivers the light to your eyes. It is energy that your brain uses to interpret these words and it is energy that controls your mood concerning what you are reading.

If energy is the basic unit of physical existence then it is, at the very least, extremely closely related to spirit.

Synthetic Knowledge and the State of Education

It was recently explained to me by the Dean of Continuing Education at a prominent American University that Education is, by nature, synthetic knowledge. Unlike Training, which is experienced knowledge, education is knowledge which, at some point, was training for another person. That is to say that someone else discovered it to be true, then “educated” the receiver in a synthetic way.

The industrialized world operates on this system of synthetic knowledge. This system operates on the basis that it is not possible for a single person to experience and understand all aspects of reality. Surly this is true when it comes to fields like Genetics. It has been said that we stand on the shoulders of giants. That is to say that we have not discovered all of our knowledge on our own, but simply built upon what others have learned. Geneticists build upon the discoveries of those who discovered before them in order to progress the field.

I would like to suggest that this system is incapable of discovering reality. It is only fair, if I wish to make that statement, that I define “reality.”  If you wish to read about what I mean by reality read my post about it. It was originally discussed here but was split up due to length. I have already admitted that education has merit in the pursuit of knowledge, and I am not a religious fanatic who “hates science.”

What if someone down the line was wrong? What if one or more of those giants on which we stand was wrong? The educational system is much like a secluded tribal community. When a group of people decide what is true for a larger body of people we inbreed our knowledge like a secluded tribe inbreeds their genes. When people are not able to discover truth on there own we open ourselves up to harsh corruption. One does not have to think very hard before coming up with examples of this. Religious leaders constantly tell their adherents what their holy books say and educate them on how to understand what they read. This has lead to thousands of cults throughout history. A favorite example of mine is Christopher Columbus; He was educated to know that the Earth was flat, good thing for us he decided to escape the system of education and find out for himself. He learned that they were wrong, and that this inbred synthetic knowledge was false. Galileo did the same, too bad for him they killed him for it.

I would like to suggest that formal education traps the mind into the box of which so many say we should be thinking out side. Our perception of reality is shaped by our surroundings and our thoughts. Would you like to be told what life is like? Or would you like to discover what life is like? In America we educate our young people for the first 18 to 30 years of their lives about what life is. We have decided that it is better to be told what life is than to actually live it. We are educated to be able to function in our society, living under the rule of popular opinion and cooperate thought. After we spend 25% to 50% of our lives learning what the box is we are released to explore inside it. If you leave the box, you are a crazy fanatic. If history has taught us anything, it is that we kill people who discover truth outside the box.

What is Reality?

“Reality” is that which is real. What is real? Is this computer “real?” It is certainly comprised of matter, and matter is comprised of energy which is the building block of all things physical. There in, lays the question. Is physical existence real? The basic question here is really: Does physical reality govern the non-physical or does non-physical reality govern the physical? I suggest the latter.

The tools with which we seek physical reality are incapable of understanding that which is non-physical. Using these tools we always stop at energy. As a child I was the irritating kid that always asked ‘why?” A troublesome question since our system is not set up to answer this question. Ask “why” enough times and you will end up at “energy” or “I don’t know.” Our tool box understands reality as energy. What is energy?

Energy is spirit. Now we leave the physical in pursuit of reality. Spiritual reality governs physical reality. Since the beginning of time we have disagreed upon what spiritual reality is, I think that this is because we are using the wrong method of discovering it. We live in a world that idolizes Ultimates. If something can be reduced to its ultimate form we accept it, if not then we have not discovered it. What if there is no ultimate spiritual reality? No way of solidly stating truth? What if our world is not as constant as we so desperately desire?  What if we are truly in the abyss of which most major spiritualities speak? Judaism, Christianity and Islam all accept the Biblical book of Genesis as the explanation concerning where we have come from. Believers from within each of these traditions disagree on whether the account is literal history or poetry. Our discussion is not concerned with this argument. In either case God creates physical existence within the abysmal spiritual reality. This shows up in other spiritual traditions as well but I’ll not exhaust them all.

Is it so terrible to think that spiritually there is no bedrock at the bottom of our sandcastle? What if the deity which I call God is the only constant reality? What if his nature is so vast that we are unable to view him in constant form?

Spherical Reality

Every known component of our physical existence is spherical. This is constantly rediscovered. Until a few hundred years ago the Earth was considered to be flat, we now know it to be spherical. A few decades ago we discovered that atoms, the basic component of matter, are spherical along with their particles. Stars, Solar Systems and Galaxies, are circular, cyclical and spherical. From biggest to smallest the things that make our world are round. If the universe is round, which I think we are on the verge of discovering, then time would have to be round also.

In the 1400s a ship sailing west discovered that it would end up east, or in the same place it started. I think a satellite traveling in a constant direction will eventually end up in the same place it began. If this is true then time must return also, given that time is a product of movement in space.  Astronauts traveling around the earth a great speed age slower than us on the Earth. You can read my post about relativity if you want to know how that works. Its all an issue of speed and distance. I am not saying that a satellite which circumnavigates the universe would end up in the same time and space as it codependent but independently. so a point in time would be in a different space. Some of you are still with me, some of you are lost, sorry.

If time will eventually return to the place (not space) which it began, then time is cyclical. This is how I understand infinity. I believe in eternal life. Eternal life requires infinite time. I feel that infinite time requires cyclical space.

Cyclical space requires spherical reality. What do you think?