The problem with Existence

A paradox is required for this funny thing to happen at all

God was. And there He/Her/It/NoOneCares was. That is all that was. No matter how you ask “when was it?”, it simply “is”. Or “it simply was”. Both, at the same time, or neither? No matter what, “it is”. The thing of it “just is”, as in… “is”… the only thing that “is”. The unity of all, the only thing, that which “is”, and of which no thing is not. That which is separate from no other thing. God. Name it whatever you will.

Author’s Note: Dang that was quite the jumble of words! Whew! Glad that pain and suffering is over with. Moving on…

Defining this attribute for God is an interesting thought challenge. Arguing its correctness is great material for another article… elsewhere. For now, let’s roll with it, and see how it plays upon reality as we experience it.

Imagining (as you may) that God (as it were) “is” the “only thing” in all things, is impossible for us humans to actually fully comprehend, just like infinity is impossible for us to truly comprehend. We — in our current state — require two frames of reference to truly understand any thought we have. Trying to see, feel, and understand God as nothing but a single unity is not different at all from trying to see, feel, and understand God as infinity. The attempt might be fun, but you likely aren’t going to get far.

Still, as a fact… as a reasonable basis of logical truth, added to our philosophy about God, this idea poses an interesting game of mental gymnastics. For those of you readers who are still with me, it is about to get wild, so hang on!

Assuming that God is the singleton of the universe (the singleton of all things… of itself, and only itself), then we have an existence problem. How is there that which is not God? Or said another way, how is there that which is “not… is”?

Easy peasy.

Is NOT.

Simple. The answer is “is not”. There is that which “is not”. The opposite of “is”. The thing that “is not of” that which “is” (God). The False to the True. The other side.

BOOM! Big Bang! We have reality. We have existence. We have Duality. We have, in quotes, these two new “reality” and “existence” things, that suddenly pop into “existence”, out of nothing, from nowhere. Sound familiar? Rightly so, as it is the age old magic trick, the fundamental impulse, the miracle that all physicists and scientists need to construct their thoughts.

In case you haven’t followed along entirely, what we just did there was define that which is opposite of God (that which “is”), by deciding — of our own accord — that there is that which “is not” of that which “is”, or rather, that there is something opposite of God. This was called “existence”, or “that which is not me”, because we can now say “I exist!”, or “That thing exists!”… but there is a catch no one ever thinks of: we can only say such things because something else does not exist, or because something else is separate from us. As in, “that which I am separate from”, or “that which is not me”, or “that which is not the other thing”, or simply “that which exists, in contrast to that which does not”.

But this is a paradox and a fake. It is also an Egotistical assertion. It is taking all that is, the entire of reality, of unity, of one, God, and asserting with Godlike force and power “NO! There is that which is NOT God. There is that WHICH IS ME. I EXIST, because I SAY SO. NOT God is existence, because it is separate of God, and therefor has identity in and of itself. “Me” is born, and “I AM”.

There it is. You suddenly have “existence”. That which is “me”. That which “is not” (of God). That which “is opposite of” that “which is” (God). The Ego pridefully asserts its defiance of God in the birth of a “me”, and Ego is born. A second God, a false God, asserts itself, and its name is Ego. This artifact of our blissful lila is of our own doing, through a desire for identity, by deliberately defining that which is opposite of God, which is that which is opposite of unity, which is duality, which is Ego, which is “me”.

God allows this, and supports it in Itself, through Itself, and of Itself. Why? Because of freewill. To allow one the gift of Divinity (of choosing one’s own destiny) it is required that one have freewill — a fundamental attribute of Divinity — in order to make choices, and forge that destiny. So though nothing can truly be separate from God — because God is, after all, the foundation of all things, of all things, and in all things — God allows the delusion that there is that which “is not”, as opposed to that which “is”… simply to allow the freewill of his children to assert itself (themselves?). Through the permissible act of God, duality is formed, the universe is created, we have opposite poles and two genders, and along with a “him” and a “her”, we have a “me”. We have an entire playground where — in our delusion — we can play the false Gods we assert ourselves to be, in a dreamscape of non-existence, for the sake of our freewill, and through it our identity, which isn’t yet mature enough to understand the difference.

So, in a very confusing summary, “us”, “me”, “I exist”, is actually the paradox, and that which “is not”. We project “reality” in unison, all believing that “I am”, in a delusional slumber, where we dream of that which is opposite of “is”, that which “is not”, that which doesn’t exist. In this way, we find ourselves, and we exist — if only in a dream…

Hello there! I am trying a new format for my articles! A hybrid of narrative, thought provoking hypothesis theorizing, and nonsensical question asking jumble! I am going for a “chill afternoon conversation with friends over some drinks and good food” vibe. How am I doing? Leave feedback in the comments!

We are the “opposite” of God because we choose to be? What kind of garbage is that!? ~All my readers

Well, as I said, that is the stuff of other articles. The mental wanderings here are only to show that if you seriously follow some of the supposed attributes of God, then you can lead yourself to some pretty strange places. It matters not how this applies, or how it doesn’t. I just considered this an interesting thought to digest, and wanted to share it. I hope it was not too insufferable! :)

What are your thoughts?