View Article  What does Islam reinforce about the significance of existence, life? Part II of II

What does Islam reinforce about the significance of existence, life?

 

Part II of II

...You will be justly treated in your afterlife.

 

This Islamic perception reinforces the impact life has upon eternity and reinforces the significance of life itself.

 

 

Now take the universe and place it inside the Causative Force.

 

Now your actions, positive and negative, have no way out.

 

Your actions not only affect you and your environment, but also affect others and their environments.

 

These actions become a part of the Causative Force.

 

Your actions actually impact upon the Causative Force.

 

Justice takes on a new aspect.

 

Now justice elevates the significance of life to a new level.

 

But what of the Christian concept of forgiveness?

 

Islamic beliefs do not necessitate the rejection of such an idea.

 

The Causative Force may very well forgive you for any wrongdoings you imposed upon Her just as a parent would forgive a child.

 

This would no doubt ease your sense of empathy, but would it mean you completely forget the incident?

 

And what of others you abused in life?

 

Can the Causative Force override their emotional and physical pain?

 

Can the Causative Force forgive you for them?

 

Or do they have to do so themselves?

 

And even if they did forgive you, could you ever forget the damage you inflicted upon them if you exist in an omnipresent, omniscient being?

 

Empathy and justice in an eternity of total knowledge, omniscience.

 

Can it ever stop?

 

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View Article  What does Islam reinforce about the significance of existence, life? Part I of II

What does Islam reinforce about the significance of existence, life?

 

 

Part I of II

 

Life exists.

 

You exist.

 

You choose the actions you take.

 

You are responsible for your actions. Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam say you will enter eternity after life.

 

What could make life anymore significant than to know the Islamic concept was correct, you would be justly treated based upon your worldly actions?

 

 

Suffering exists around you and you ignore it.

 

You will be fully aware of your actions in the afterlife, in eternity.

 

Not only will you be aware of it, you will be aware of all the negative actions that generated ripple effects.

 

You will be justly treated in your afterlife in eternity.

 

This Islamic perception reinforces the impact life has upon eternity and reinforces the significance of life itself.

 

Suffering exists and you reach out with compassion, love.

 

You will be aware of all your actions generated through ripple effects.

 

To be continued: Part II of II: You will be...
View Article  What does reason and experience imply about our significance in eternity? Part II of II

What does reason and experience imply about our significance in eternity?

 

Part II of II

...Therefore, to understand the picture that exists, one must put the pieces of the puzzle together and merge the two into a unified view.

 

That is what brings the picture into better focus.

 

The more integration that takes place, the more detail that is added to the picture, the more detail one obtains of the total picture, the better one understands.

 

Understand what?

 

Understand what life is, why life exists, why we, you and I, exist.

 

With understanding comes behavioral changes.

 

But can we ever truly understand?

 

It doesn’t matter because if we truly understood, we wouldn’t ‘know’ this to be ‘truth’ anyway.

 

Therefore, we may as well attempt to understand as best we can.

 

We may as well develop an understanding that we are proud of having created.

 

We may as well develop a model capable of sustaining the rigorous tests of the physical universe and a hypothetical abstract eternity.

 

 

Philosophy may find itself to be more productive if it would begin a practical development of a unified view.

 

To do this, it would need to place the less practical matter of understanding the Causative Force into a separate category from the building of a unified view or universal philosophy.

 

The mystery of understanding the creator of the Causative Force has been sidetracking philosophy for too long.

 

The only way to get philosophy back on track in building a unified view is to place this theoretical concept of a creator of the creator into its own category.

 

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View Article  What does reason and experience imply about our significance in eternity? Part I of II

What does reason and experience imply about our significance in eternity?

 

 

Part I of II

 

Perhaps all life has the same purpose and awareness is the means of preserving it eternally.

 

 

Is it possible to set up axioms that are native to reason and are truly independent of experience?

 

Without experience, you have no awareness of your own.

 

You could still exist and you could still have awareness, but this existence, awareness, would be premised upon the experience and awareness of some source other than your own.

 

As such, it would not be ‘your’ awareness of experience. In short, you would not exist as yourself, rather you would exist as someone else.

 

Philosophy tries to categorize reasoning regarding the physical separately from experience, the abstract.

 

There is nothing wrong with this approach.

 

What becomes a problem is when these areas of philosophy see themselves as independent

of each other.

 

One cannot exist without the other. They are an integral part of each other.

 

To be continued: Part II of II: Therefore, to understand the picture that exists, one must put the pieces of...
View Article  What does set theory reinforce about the significance of existence, life? Part II of II

What does set theory reinforce about the significance of existence, life?

 

Part II of II

Classical/traditional theisms, in picture form, provide something neither atheism nor pantheism can provide.

 

They provide a sense of hope.

 

They provide a sense of the soul existing beyond the temporary state of the universe.

 

But these religions, by holding to the picture of a less than all present state of the Causative Force, leave the state of the soul in question once it has left the physicality of the universe or once the universe no longer exists.

 

Venn diagram #4: (see graphic 050422 – use icon on left ‘Graphics’)

 

Panentheism, in picture form, provides an even greater sense of hope, for there is nowhere else to go once leaving the physical state of the universe, but into the arms of the Causative Force.

 

How reassuring or how unsettling depending upon the type of life one leads.

 

And therein lies the logic behind people taking responsibility for their actions.

 

Therein lies the argument for forgiveness and the understanding of why vengeance is not an idea we must seek out.

 

 

Only with Venn diagram #4, a dot (your essence) within a circle (a physical universe) which in turn is inside a box (the Causative Force) is there no doubt about what you are.

 

You belong to something for you are inside something.

 

To be included in the Causative Force leaves little doubt as to your life’s significance.

 

Life exists within the Causative Force.

 

The concept of interdependence, a symbiotic state, begins to evolve.

 

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