The following dilemma applies equally to everyone interested in making a significant change. It applies equally to the philosopher and the theist.
I am speaking from the point of view of the person that I am.
God is an illusion. You cannot have God without that which is not God (e.g. The Devil). That is the duality of the illusion of God. The one who creates the idea of God is also the one who creates the idea of The Devil.
Wanting God without The Devil is a decease. It’s like wanting energy without matter, or wanting light without darkness, or wanting love without hate. To a point, we have been successful in dissolving certain dualities (or contradictions). For example, in the case of E=mC^2, we partially resolve the contradictions between matter and energy. However, we should note that the contradiction itself had been created by us, and in our solutions we have also created other contradictions (e.g. the one between Relativity and Quantum Mechanics).
These contradictions are illusions and no soon do we fix one to create another.
God is the ultimate contradiction because its purpose is to resolve all contradictions.
Assuming God is not an illusion, searching for God is bound to fail, because the techniques we use to reach God are invalid and they cannot work. They are invalid in the sense that they are also dualistic. The principle idea behind most beliefs is that by doing certain things you can come to know enough to resolve the most elemental contradictions. This is what we call wisdom, understanding, or enlightenment. Yet, wisdom is itself part of a dualism: the dualism that divides the individual from the thing wanting to have wisdom of. So as long as the individual wants to be wise, he will be ignorant.
You may say, well, perhaps I can resolve this contradiction the same way we resolved the conflict between energy and matter, by making them one and establishing a relationship between them. The problem here is clear. Matter alone, nor energy alone, resolved the contradiction. Note that in the famous equation, there is a special constant, C, the speed of light. Light is evidently neither energy, nor matter, and light gave rise to the idea that matter and energy are interchangeable. Light is the most significant element in the equation. Of course, there is more to relativity than just this. There is also the consolidation of space, time, gravity, and other concepts.
I may have done a poor job with the above illustration, but I think you get the gist of what I am trying to say. The individual alone cannot resolve the contradiction between the individual and that which the individual seeks to understand. So the wisdom he seeks is not possible. Likewise, God alone cannot resolve the contradiction between God and The Devil, or God and the individual.
Let’s try the physical analogy once more. Imagine matter wanting to know energy. To fully know energy, matter would have to know of its relationship to energy fully. It would have to know that it [matter] and energy are one, manergy. So it can no longer call itself matter and it can no longer call energy energy. So with this understanding, the idea that matter wants to understand energy is senseless as there is no matter and there is no energy but manergy.
You may say: If matter understood itself fully, meaning if it understood its manergyness, it would also understand energy, as energy is also manergy. The problem is that to understand its manergyness, matter would need to cease being matter and become manergy. How could it do this, if matter is still matter wanting to understand manergy? Also, all that matter knows is matter. Thus matter cannot effect the changes necessary to become manergy.
Another problem with matter is that it wants to be energy or manergy. Wanting to be is what keeps matter in its divided state because it reinforces the idea that it is matter and not something else. To matter, there cannot be something else (either energy or manergy) without matter. It keeps telling itself that it is matter and not that something else.
In some cases, Matter also has another misconception. It thinks everything is matter, energy, or manergy. It has simplified its world this way to a point that it does not see beyond its own simplifications. In its own ineptitude, this gives matter comfort, hope, and its own enslavement.
We can all see how this would apply to the theist. But how does this apply to the philosopher? Well, look at the definition of the title: lover of knowledge. Wanting to know and loving are divisions.
I am speaking from the point of view of the person that I am.
God is an illusion. You cannot have God without that which is not God (e.g. The Devil). That is the duality of the illusion of God. The one who creates the idea of God is also the one who creates the idea of The Devil.
Wanting God without The Devil is a decease. It’s like wanting energy without matter, or wanting light without darkness, or wanting love without hate. To a point, we have been successful in dissolving certain dualities (or contradictions). For example, in the case of E=mC^2, we partially resolve the contradictions between matter and energy. However, we should note that the contradiction itself had been created by us, and in our solutions we have also created other contradictions (e.g. the one between Relativity and Quantum Mechanics).
These contradictions are illusions and no soon do we fix one to create another.
God is the ultimate contradiction because its purpose is to resolve all contradictions.
Assuming God is not an illusion, searching for God is bound to fail, because the techniques we use to reach God are invalid and they cannot work. They are invalid in the sense that they are also dualistic. The principle idea behind most beliefs is that by doing certain things you can come to know enough to resolve the most elemental contradictions. This is what we call wisdom, understanding, or enlightenment. Yet, wisdom is itself part of a dualism: the dualism that divides the individual from the thing wanting to have wisdom of. So as long as the individual wants to be wise, he will be ignorant.
You may say, well, perhaps I can resolve this contradiction the same way we resolved the conflict between energy and matter, by making them one and establishing a relationship between them. The problem here is clear. Matter alone, nor energy alone, resolved the contradiction. Note that in the famous equation, there is a special constant, C, the speed of light. Light is evidently neither energy, nor matter, and light gave rise to the idea that matter and energy are interchangeable. Light is the most significant element in the equation. Of course, there is more to relativity than just this. There is also the consolidation of space, time, gravity, and other concepts.
I may have done a poor job with the above illustration, but I think you get the gist of what I am trying to say. The individual alone cannot resolve the contradiction between the individual and that which the individual seeks to understand. So the wisdom he seeks is not possible. Likewise, God alone cannot resolve the contradiction between God and The Devil, or God and the individual.
Let’s try the physical analogy once more. Imagine matter wanting to know energy. To fully know energy, matter would have to know of its relationship to energy fully. It would have to know that it [matter] and energy are one, manergy. So it can no longer call itself matter and it can no longer call energy energy. So with this understanding, the idea that matter wants to understand energy is senseless as there is no matter and there is no energy but manergy.
You may say: If matter understood itself fully, meaning if it understood its manergyness, it would also understand energy, as energy is also manergy. The problem is that to understand its manergyness, matter would need to cease being matter and become manergy. How could it do this, if matter is still matter wanting to understand manergy? Also, all that matter knows is matter. Thus matter cannot effect the changes necessary to become manergy.
Another problem with matter is that it wants to be energy or manergy. Wanting to be is what keeps matter in its divided state because it reinforces the idea that it is matter and not something else. To matter, there cannot be something else (either energy or manergy) without matter. It keeps telling itself that it is matter and not that something else.
In some cases, Matter also has another misconception. It thinks everything is matter, energy, or manergy. It has simplified its world this way to a point that it does not see beyond its own simplifications. In its own ineptitude, this gives matter comfort, hope, and its own enslavement.
We can all see how this would apply to the theist. But how does this apply to the philosopher? Well, look at the definition of the title: lover of knowledge. Wanting to know and loving are divisions.
