Rei "I'm not a Nazi I just Hate Jews" Murasme:
Arrowhead, you may indeed have something there (although your take is probably more optimistic than mine). Recently, I've been... well, this is going to sound a little kooky, but in a thread like this, why not?
I've been wondering about something beyond the framework --- wondering about the Ein Soph itself, the personality of God. At every major 'change in era/dispensation/age', there has always been a natural anomaly, or disaster of some sort.
I've been idly wondering if this time s/he might be it finally giving up on The World. After all, there is a difficult to explain cycle of the reciever having joy from existing, and that in turn driving the (theoretical) desire which motivated/motivates/will motivate God to continue his/her upholding the universe, even though I'm sure that as God, s/he doesn't percieve it exactly that way (but it's the best way to say it in layman's terms). This isn''t the purely logical and systematic aspects which I'm talking about, but rather, the hidden and unknown part (which I won't usually get into, for precisely that reason), so I'm only speculating and theorising here.
If God were to withdraw its spirit (as several holy books indicate that s/he could do that, even though this is not consistent behaviour), who can predict what would happen to our World? Perhaps there is a scenario where this could be avoided of course, and The World would go on as it were without change. Or the framework could slowly decay until we're struck by a massive event that kills us all, and returns this to nothing...
Even more sobering to think of, is perhaps all the dispensation changes up until now, served the double-function of being trials, almost a hidden plea to see if what God desired would begin to emerge on its own... (since free-will will not be tampered with). What is it that s/he wanted? What is it that a being who can create something out of nothing other than itself, desired?
That's a question that might be difficult to answer. Many like me have organised ourselves, approached this God, and tried to find this answer. We wanted to analyse him/her further, and find out more in regards to it's purpose - since while we have the ability to manipulate the framework, we are relying on it's will to continue to uphold this World, since that is an ability only s/he has. As depressing as things can be, I think we all know inside that we need more time, to find the answers. No-one really wants all this to end, not now, not ever.
A "New Heaven", and a "New Earth" - to me they're not attractive things, but a theoretical future result of our failure to solve the puzzle in time, and keep things in balance until we learn about the true nature of God's hidden self. Such a failure would be "armageddon", an inability to 'bring the creation back to the creator'. Perhaps we are so close, but not close enough yet. And the enemy is also determined to impede any rapid discovery.
We need more time... hopefully we have enough left...
I'm sorry. I usually try to avoid the speculation and worry of 'armageddon', and 'God's hidden and unknown areas', and just keep trying to carry out the task at hand, but I need sleep, and this topic kindof triggered it, so I reacted.
