But what if you're wrong?
What if there is a God?
Will he punish you?
How could you know?
There has to be a loophole...
Sin is in.
I once wrote about maintaining the illusion of morality for a paper. How if the program realizes it's a program, and whether or not existence was just a collection of binary commands. The essential question is whether the morality of the world is necessary or even useful, and how this affects the ideas of free will and choice. This idea leads to another, of a "Neo" like figure where one rises above and beyond their confines of an illusion, or even bending it to their will, toward any arbitrarily derived agenda. Along with the ubermen of Nietzsche. Which is a surprisingly similar description of nirvana and reincarnation.
In light of a newly infinite state beyond material ressentiment, this is where the argument for maintaining such an illusion of morality would be useful. If indeed there were no sense of order to a fundamentally chaotic universe, nothing would maintain cohesion from one point to the next. And it is through seemingly immutable laws, discovered and explored by science, that we begin to paint a better picture of the larger puzzle, and determine there is some degree of elegant order. Like with the concept of reincarnation we tread a path to holistic understanding of the universe and our selves with every generational contribution to this endeavor.
Life is magic. Science will show that not a single aspect of the body is responsible for the entirety of what we experience as consciousness, and whether humans are the only species capable of higher cognitive functions, or are alone. That is, in the most extreme sense, we are not entirely our brain. We can live without certain portions, yet lose something of ourselves in that process; a duality of mind and body.
History has shown that man has a fascination with the boundless and the infinite. And to obtain and utilize a fraction of it would spell enormous changes for the narrative of mankind. And magic was not excluded. Practices involving spirits, the banishment of negative forces, and the ghostly presence of something beyond our physicality is an ancient tradition, that has largely been abandoned in science, and labeled superstition or something out of a horror film. Yet it is these "old-world" beliefs that lead to things such as chemistry, where matter could be altered to another state. A state dictated by immutable laws.
But we must not be ignorant of the absurd, as many scientific endeavors have proven, most notably against religious opposition.
In light of a newly infinite state beyond material ressentiment, this is where the argument for maintaining such an illusion of morality would be useful. If indeed there were no sense of order to a fundamentally chaotic universe, nothing would maintain cohesion from one point to the next. And it is through seemingly immutable laws, discovered and explored by science, that we begin to paint a better picture of the larger puzzle, and determine there is some degree of elegant order. Like with the concept of reincarnation we tread a path to holistic understanding of the universe and our selves with every generational contribution to this endeavor.
Do we have a soul?
Is it alive?
Where do they exist?
Is there magic?
History has shown that man has a fascination with the boundless and the infinite. And to obtain and utilize a fraction of it would spell enormous changes for the narrative of mankind. And magic was not excluded. Practices involving spirits, the banishment of negative forces, and the ghostly presence of something beyond our physicality is an ancient tradition, that has largely been abandoned in science, and labeled superstition or something out of a horror film. Yet it is these "old-world" beliefs that lead to things such as chemistry, where matter could be altered to another state. A state dictated by immutable laws.
But we must not be ignorant of the absurd, as many scientific endeavors have proven, most notably against religious opposition.
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