Jan 01, 2006 12:36
Usually.
Now, don't get me wrong - this effect is not always a positive one. Actually, as soon as I get done writing this I'm going to start looking into my use of NO while on this new diet, because it struck me while I was taking a piss this morning that it could be adversely affecting nutrient uptake in lieu of glycogen and insulin.
This is similar to computer code. Two lines, separate, achieving two separate ends, will not necessarily achieve either of those ends when placed together; or they may achieve several more, unexpectedly. This is simply the nature of the limited scope of understanding of man. Unless all parameters are understood by an individual, all outcomes cannot be anticipated. The computer program will become more than a sum of its parts in this respect - a "ghost in the machine," if you will.
Now, hypothetically, given that math would seem to be the language of the cosmos, who is to say that a ghost in the machine could not evolve out of seemingly innocuous lines of naturally-occuring arithmetic? Let's call this ghost, just for kicks, y'understand, God. Given that this consciousness - however limited its sapience may or may not be in this instance - develops out of the cosmos, this consciousness could effectively be considered the cosmos. Not above the cosmos, not apart from the cosmos, and not a part of the cosmos, but literally, the cosmos.
Now, as this consciousness continues to exist, it could be assumed that further deviations from the intended result would occur, simply by understanding the nature of probability - given an infinite amount of time the chances that additional... "mutations"... will not arise is all but impossible. And in this scneario, we can only assume that these mutations did develop, because these mutations are us - whether we happen to exist or not. An illusion, regardless of its status as "pretend," is just as real - it's simply a real illusion. Whether in the mind of sleeping gods or otherwise, we are very much here.
Now, in arising from this God, we see that we too are very much the cosmos, just as much as God is - simply on a lower level of understanding. Furthermore, whether one believes in Christianity or not, it must be assumed that Christ will come - or come again - at one point in the future, in some vessel or another, simply because the laws of probability state that, effectively, given enough time for an occurence to happen, the occurence will happen; if it has not happened yet, enough time has not passed.
Who said you had to be ignorant to be Christian, again?