As I sit here I'm looking over the top of the computer in the cybercafe and noticing the cute guy working away at the counter. I'm not really sure what I'm thinking at the moment.
Initially I was thinking of talking about how we create our reality - how the universe is an odd mix of objective and subjective reality. How, in some ways, desire shapes our reality and in other ways reality shapes our desires.
The search for Free Will - an often contentious issue - is often blinded by that very Free Will. Scholars and thinkers like have often over analysed what Free Will actually is - constantly analysing it to the point of non-existence.
I have an interesting theory on Free Will. Not one that I necessarily prescribe to, but I find it one that is interesting to identify. What if Free Will is catching? What if it is like a psychic virus? A form of inspiration.
God was capable of giving Free Will to humanity (if one chooses to take a biblical viewpoint) and man is made as of God.
What this seems to imply is that God made man to be like God - which means humanity might be able to transfer Free Will, just as God did. It also means that God has Free Will - for you cannot give that which you don't have. The implications of this is that God *chooses* to be good.
Now before I go off onto a bizarro tangent about God and Free Will, let me get back to the main point I was discussing - that the Universe is shaped by our wills. To be more accurate, the universe is relatively neutral. I do believe that it tries to move towards harmony - which means it tries to ensure a utilitarian maximum happiness.
The rub is that Free Will means we can choose to NOT be happy. The Universe reacts to how we choose to perceive it. Maybe it is that if we seek to be unhappy, the universe ironically thinks this is the direction of maximum utility. Ever notice how people who expect things to never work out are always plagued with misfortune while people who expect things to work out and be good seem to get through.
This is Free Will at work. Self-fulfilling prophecy.
Now don't get me wrong, this is not some sort of mystical process - a lot of it is happening on a psychological level. I just find explaining it as an active process in the universe better communicates an idea that a lot of people have trouble understanding.
For many in humanity this process is called God.
The idealistic upshot of all this is that we make the world we live in. War, conflict and unhappiness? All to do with Humanity. Think about it. If you have held that the world is bad and people are necessarily selfish - when did that start. Something happened and you took that viewpoint - or you were told by someone else who you respected enough to agree with.
It's not easy to see the world in an optimistic light without being privileged and protected.
I still believe that most of us desire a better world for everyone. It's not a hard road, per se. The most difficult part is getting humanity to take responsibility for what it does to itself. Once the human race accepts that there is no need for human torment of other humans to get ahead in the universe - the sooner humanity will progress.
Love and Huggles
Conan
Currently Reading: The Secret of Zir'An
Currently Playing: Exalted: The Seventh Legion
Mood: In training for Megaroleplaying!
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