Good morning from the Chula Vista Resort and Spa in beautiful downtown Mexico!
The Rainy Season arrived this week. The temperatures are cooler, and I don’t need to water the gardens today for the first time in months. I have time to write.
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If you were to ask any three random people you happen to see on the street to describe God as completely as they can, you’d probably get five different answers. And only if those three people were all of the same faith. Different faiths, the results will vary exponentially.
If there’s only one God, which most of the people on this planet claim to believe, how can there be so many versions of Him? And how come none of Them make much sense?
Maybe it’s time for us as a people to rethink our perception of God. Step back and take a good look at this from a different angle. Try to find something that actually makes sense.
Behold! This is a new point of view. A re-examination of God from His perspective, if you will. As far as my credentials go, I don’t have any. I have a college degree in Absolutely Nothing. So if you’ve always wanted to be unimpressed by a complete nobody, you’ve come to the right place. I doubt any of my ideas are original. I’m sure someone somewhere has said everything I’m going to say long before I did. I’m simply going to reshuffle the deck and lay out the cards in a new order.
Best Practice Tip before Reading This: Anything you can learn, you can also unlearn. All it takes is the ability to imagine a different reality. Context is the most important factor in determining the truth of anything.
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Opinions on, and imaginings of what God is are legion. Some people think God is a heavenly version of Albus Dumbledore — magical — only all-powerful and all-knowing. Umm…He seems to be a bit blithe of scruple, and He is a bit sketchy on morals sometimes. You know, He lets bad things happen to good people and good things happen to bad people. That doesn’t seem fair to me. And sometimes He seems like an abusive, deadbeat dad, but He still demands that we love and respect Him, all the time… Or else.
Popular opinion claims that God and Science are incompatible. What if they aren’t? What if God and Science and Mathematics aren’t simply compatible with one another, what if they are all one in the same.
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Imagine, if you can, that it’s your job is to construct a new universe. We got tired of the old one. You’re the Project Manager. The Big Boss. You have complete control over every aspect of the construction of this new universe. You have an unlimited budget. You have all the resources and facilities you’ll need to successfully complete this assignment, and if you don’t, they will be provided.
And let’s assume that you’re highly motivated to pull this off without a hitch. You’ve been waiting for this moment all of your life. All you have to do is hire the right people and get them to work effectively together as a team to figure out the process.
Who ya gonna call?
For me, I’m hiring every scientist. mathematician, architect, engineer and computer geek on the planet. And a really good HR Department. Those are the best people to make success in this endeavor possible. Anyone disagree?
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Long, long ago there was the Void. And somewhere inside of this vast Nothingness, God and God alone existed. And because He existed, God thought. There wasn’t anything else to do. TV hadn’t been invented yet, nor were there any TikTok videos to binge watch.
As often happens when we think about something, we get an idea about it, and so it was God. God had an Idea. He dwelt on His Idea as it expanded in His Mind, and God devised a plan to make His Plan real; it was the most beautifully complex idea ever conceived in this universe.
God focused His Will on His Idea, and God’s Idea became fused into His Purpose. God wove a Vision vividly outlining every aspect of His Idea, shaping and molding it, guiding and directing, orchestrating and conducting every thing to mesh perfectly together to achieve His perfect conclusion.
God analyzed every possible outcome, then chose only those storylines that fit into His Purpose, editing out everything that did not. In essence, He wrote, produced, directed, and starred in the first epic movie outlining every event and occurrence that needs to happen in this universe — from beginning to end, great and small, down to the most minute detail. And He even wrote the soundtrack, like Prince did in Purple Rain.
When God had done all of the math, and applied every scientific law and principle exactly where and when they needed to be activated — not just on Earth, but in every millimeter of the entire universe — when God had devised a Plan that would achieve His Purpose, and only His Purpose — God blew Himself up in the Big Bang, creating everything in the universe that ever was, that is, and that will be. Galaxies, solar systems, and planets. Everything. Including us humans.
God wrote, coded, and formatted something like unto a computer program that started running roughly fourteen and half billion years ago and will continue to run as long as it takes until God achieves His ultimate goal. It doesn’t matter if it takes another five years from now or another fifty billion light-years. God is eternal. Time has no meaning in the Kingdom of Heaven.
I call this program the Godcode. It’s the only answer I’ve been able to come up with that explains how God can truly be All-Knowing. He had to create a blueprint. He’s running the fucking show.
You can define all-powerful any way you like. But if you can create an entire universe of diversity and wonder out of Nothing — simply by thinking about it long enough, that’s setting the bar pretty damn high.
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I’m not going to explain the fruits of the Big Bang here. That would take forfuckingever! Anyhow, there are literally hundreds of thousands of resources you can find online that explain everything we currently understand about it if you’re suddenly curious.
Consider this: God was the only thing existing inside the Void before the Big Bang. God was still the only thing existing after the Big Bang. God isn’t merely in Everything. He actually is Everything. Even to this day. And all of those subatomic particles of God that went flying out into the Void in the Big Bang had been encoded with an exacting set of instructions for each and every particle to follow.
A Must-Do List, if you will.
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Back in the 1960’s, a British physicist named Peter Higgs proposed the existence of the Higgs boson — the fundamental particle associated with the Higgs field, a field that gives mass to other fundamental particles such as electrons, preons, and quarks. They’re the smallest things we’ve been able to figure out so far.
His theory created a bit of an uproar in scientific circles for awhile — until everyone realized this guy wasn’t full of shit, he was a fucking genius.
If you ever attempt to break down something to it’s most basic form, bust it into a million, billion, trillion pieces, eventually you’ll get to a point where you can’t break it down any further because you’ve reached the smallest particle. That’s essentially what the Higgs boson is. Oh, and by the way, the other name for it is the God particle.
In 2008, CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, completed the construction of the Large Hadron Collider. In July of 2012, CERN announced the presence of the Higgs boson particle had been determined within the LHC. In 2013, almost 50 years after Peter Higgs published his revolutionary idea, he received the Nobel prize for his work.
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Scientists, whether they believe in God or not, will tell you the existence of God hasn’t been proven. I would add yet. Here’s something to consider: Every thing in both science and mathematics are provable. God’s form is Science. God’s function is Mathematics. In that context, Science, and mathematics, in all of their major and minor areas of study are nothing more than branches and subsets of theology.
It’s not a question of if. It’s a matter of when. Science will prove the existence of God eventually.
Thanks to Peter Higgs and CERN, we have the data, the technology, and the facilities to accomplish this. What scientists don’t understand yet is all they have to do to isolate the Higgs boson particle is connect to the field it resides in. Once that feat has been achieved Science will be able to unlock its’ Godcode.
Here’s the really cool part: If you can tame so much as even one God particle, you can control all of them. Scientists will be able to create anything they can imagine.
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God, the Ultimate Scientist and Digital Universe Creator. If this scenario is a possibility you hadn’t considered before, there’s a reason for that. It’s not supposed to be. Our current perceptions of God and our relationship with Him don’t appear to be working out so well for either one of us anymore. It’s way past time for a change.
The Church, and by that I mean every form and subspecies of organized religion on the planet, doesn’t want you to know the truth about God and your personal relationship with Him. If you knew the truth, you’d know there’d be no reason for the Church to exist anymore. And then all of those poor priests, ministers, and preachers would have to go get real jobs like the rest of us.
The guys at the top, middle, and bottom level of every religious hierarchy have got it made. They have wealth, power and control, and fame/infamy. No one just walks away from those perks if they don’t have to.
If you have questions about God, read the Torah. Or the Bible. Or the Quran. And if you have ever taken this advice from your priest, pastor, rabbi, imam, or minister — how much better do you now understand God? Almost everything we’ve been led to believe is the gospel truth about God by organized religion in their holy books is a goddamn lie.
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Imagine you’re out on the town with your best friend. Y’all are having a great time, and then this guy comes over and starts telling your friend a story that you know isn’t true. What would you do, dear? You’d probably call bullshit and tell yon dude to take a fuckin’ hike, right?
That’s more or less the situation I find myself in right now.
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Some of you have already figured out that if God has already predetermined everything that has happened, is happening now, and what remains to happen — what the hell happened to free will? Aren’t we supposed to have free will, and can’t we do whatever we want?
Surprise! There’s no such thing as free will.
Okay, maybe it wasn’t that funny
Can you imagine it? You, personally — and it’s not just you — all of us. Yes, that includes me. Each and every one of us have as much free will as any character in any mmorpg. If you’re like me, you’re going to have to look that up.
The human concept of free will is the second greatest lie ever told by the Church. The first great lie is that we humans are separated from God by something called sin.
I’m pretty sure everyone will find the concept of the absence to free will disturbing. I did. It takes a while to get used to for sure, but there is some good news. All of you good, religious people out there that are struggling mightily to obey God’s Will and be good people so you can get into Heaven — you can stop sweating those points. You’re already fulfilling God’s Will, so chill out.
But if I’m already doing God’s Will, why aren’t I a better person? Why isn’t the world a better place?
Good question. It’s time for you to start figuring that out.
Look, we deal with situations like unto this on practically a daily basis anymore. Especially at work. It’s called a Change in Practice. We’re not doing the same old thing anymore. We going to try something different from now on.
See? I told you. Nothing new there.
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Not only is it physically impossible for us to be separate from God, it’s metaphysically impossible. We wouldn’t be alive without God. Without God, we couldn’t even fucking exist!
God is Everything. Everything is God. God is the Consciousness and Lifeforce that controls the actions and reactions of everything in the universe — whether it be animal, vegetable, or mineral. Solid, liquid, or gas. Everything in the universe is doing exactly what God programmed it to do. And everything has been encoded to produce one result and one result only. The fulfillment of God’s Will.
Everything happens for a reason.
God doesn’t play dice with the universe. — Albert Einstein
When it comes to God and your personal role in God’s Plan, that’s the main theme you need to try to understand right now.
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There are only two reactions anyone that has read this far can be having right now. Well, I guess that wasn’t the craziest thing I’ve ever heard. Or, That’s the stupidest fucking thing I’ll ever hear. Some of you might even have a question or two… This might be one of them:
If we really are one with God, where did we ever get the idea that we’re separated from Him?
That’s the right question. There’s only one answer.
It’s an answer no one understands completely yet, and I have seriously questioned the necessity of this…alternate reality…many times. The best answer I have right now is we humans have somehow developed a type of split personality that is almost completely consciously unaware of our divine connection to, and with, God, much like unto Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
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God needed this to happen to fulfill His Will. He planned for this to happen.
But why?
That’s an even better question. As near as I can tell, God can only do the things He needs to do — the series of connections and interconnections of Time/Space, Chance, Circumstance, and Opportunity that had to be intricately woven together — just so — to advance and complete His Purpose. God cannot deviate from His original storyline. There can be no unforeseen plot twists that pop up from left field that God didn’t see coming.
Everything that’s going on in the world around us right now is exactly what God intended, even the parts that don’t make any goddamn sense to us. And they are also legion.
That’s why God hasn’t cured cancer. Or AIDS. Or malignant stupidity. Yet. We haven’t seen the end of this movie, so there’s still hope. If it’s part of his plan, it will surely happen. This difference between what we think God is and what God actually is is a literal illustration of an immovable object meeting an irresistible force.
Mankind, particularly our collective understanding of God, is the immovable object. Really religious people don’t question anything they’ve been told to believe about God. They know everything they’re ever going to need to know, and nothing and nobody is ever going to make them change their minds.
God’s Will is the irresistible force. In Science, when these two entities collide, the irresistible force wins. Every time.
You can look it up.
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But I thought God loves us…
He does, but God, the sentient force of energy that rules the universe and everything in it, is not human. God isn’t anything like us in appearance, in the things He thinks, or in the ways He expresses Himself. God’s Idea of Love is vastly different than the love humans feel. Our love is a very deeply personal emotion, usually attached to a special person. a place, or a thing.
God’s Love is not. That’s all I can tell you with any surety. There are far more things that I don’t understand about God than I do. God is working on that, but these things take time. And patience.
Just ask Peter Higgs.
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