I certainly can not claim to have endured this type of extreme stress, my desensitized media view of war is all I have to claim. War for me has been nothing more than news stories and the occasional conversation with grandparents and great uncles and aunts who have actually lived with the great wars. Life itself however is stressful on it's own no matter how you slice it. There are always times in your life when we feel destitute, perhaps distraught with the sense that things just can't be worse. The loss of a loved one, a pet, or hitting financial rock bottom when you have a family to feed and keep sheltered. These types of stresses in my own life have always seemed to bring with them that periodic search for a creator, God, or just some explanation for what is happening to me. It does seem at least in part that Lieutenant Colonel William Casey was right in assuming that we have a built in question about who we are.
But, what is the answer?
Well I don't know the answer, and I certainly don't understand the question really. I will also be so bold as to say that no man nor woman really truly understands the question for if you did, well if you did, you would simply just be your own creator. Life is to the very core more complex than our 3.5 pound brain can calculate. This I am sure of 100% and at the end of the day I put to you the very thought that "you do not need to know everything!" It is not important that you understand it all.
Does all life eventually question it's own existence? The Christians would have you believe that it is only man who seeks God, but really, this is not possible to verify this to any degree of certainty. The Latin word "Extraterrestrial" simply means outside or outwards from earth or not originating from earth. But in my own perspective I can only say that my position here on earth is relative and relevant only to me. From my own position as the observer I am the center of my own universe, and everything around me near and far is simply existing in their own micro or macro universe with me on the extraterrestrial side of their perspective. I am then, as alien to them as they are to me. But having said that, everything in and around me seems to be interconnected in some macro universe that all holds a purpose for everything around and through it.
The universe, to me, appears to be so vast that no amount of human knowledge can or will understand it fully. But are we mere creatures that have emerged under opportunistic circumstances. From a Biochemical, Evolutionary standpoint, it seems nonsensical to me to think that life is not possible somewhere else in what I view as an infinite space. If it is infinite, then there must be a chance for life somewhere else. Isn't it possible that where there is Energy, there is life? I believe that God has always existed and that the very universe is simply just part of God itself therefore we exist in the universe as part of God as a whole. This belief is not blind entirely, it is something that just makes sense. It is somewhat akin to the idea that we are not external to God but actually an integral part of what we call God. I guess that makes me a Pantheist.
Wikipedia says:
Pantheism is the view that the Universe (Nature) and God are identical,[1] or that the Universe (including Nature on Earth) is the only thing deserving the deepest kind of reverence. The word derives from the Ancient Greek: πᾶν (pan) meaning "All" and θεός (theos) meaning "God" - literally "All is God." As such Pantheism promotes the idea that God is better understood as a way of relating to nature and the Universe as a whole - all that was, is and shall be - rather than as a transcendent, mental, personal or creator entity.[2] Pantheists thus do not believe in a personal or creator god. Although there are divergences within Pantheism, the central ideas found in almost all versions are the Cosmos as an all-encompassing unity and the "sacredness" of Nature.
Have I just defined my religion? If so, it is newly defined to myself as well but perhaps it is exactly what I have done here. I have always believed in God but through all the conversations I have had with Christians, Jews, Muslims, Bhudists etc I could never quite place my finger on it so to speak. The very idea of Pantheism seems to follow the ideas that I feel are important while explaining somewhat the very foundation of the place where I physically exist.
Just a thought,
Don...
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