Ockham stated that the simplest answer is usually the best one. Of course, I am simplifying a lot his methodology, but what really makes me think is that there seems to be something really compelling in that view. It is something so powerful that I just feel it, more than understanding, or acknowledging its validity. Taking that into account and probably in a flash of supreme inspiration, I happened to have arrived to this new idea: that science is not a matter of finding unbreakable laws, but of proposing and testing laws of limited applicability. The world seems to be a very large pot full of infinity of different elements, these ones arranged according to an utterly chaotic disposition.
If my ultimate interpretation of Ockham's statement is right, then there is not a sole definite "purpose" in the existence of man, or the Universe. But I just see weak sparks of the truth, and thus I find that this is not the moment to post any conclusion.
For now, and skipping any scientific rigor, let me risk a very colorful proposition:that Earth is some sort of a Petri dish for really intelligent beings native from distant worlds. Notice that I am not saying "planets", they might have come from another time, or universe.
Since the very start of my "hypothesis", I need to wipe out from its premises the validity of religion. This is easy. Religion is taught to kids, and therefore is accepted without any analysis. Later in life, lots of events seem to threaten the value of religion, but then again it carries all the time a secret weapon, called "faith". Faith means to accept something without a discussion. If I am taught that oranges, or apples, or cows, or sheep are sacred, and if I am conditioned to have faith in this idea, then my whole life I will respect those things and will disregard using them in a way that violates the principles of my religion. So when somebody calls "faith" to the discussion of reality, everything arrives to an insurmountable dead end.
Again, I feel like in a labyrinth, for I really like faith! But faith needs to be taken into our lives only according to some rules. The first rule: faith never challenges science. The second rule: faith needs to be very private. Each person understands their world in a different way, so faith will cover for him, and only for him, the gray to completely dark area that his science and knowledge won't allow him to see with clarity. The third rule: use your chronic faith for supporting you in the everyday labors. The fourth rule: use your instant action faith for supporting you during a really terrible day. I don't believe in mixing my instant action faith (faith in that I will get off a serious eventual entanglement) with my chronic-type faith (faith in that I won't be subject of a tragedy today, and that my day will end up fine, when measured in net terms.) I don't believe that your faith is my faith. Because there's no need to mix both our faiths up! No need for me, and no need for you. But then, there might be somebody out there finding a use in mixing and merging two or more faiths. The faith authority, that is! The sum of thousands and millions of faiths generate a power field for those who know how to arrange them and direct them.
I see what I just wrote, and I am myself amazed. Now I tend to think about fashion, exactly the same way I have been thinking about faith. If every young person in a city is driven to use a certain garment or dress, then some companies will be able to produce, brand and label and then sell these garments to a large market. And if every one preferred to have their own style, then the huge market would be broken, and people would go back to the private tailor system. Likewise, if everybody is driven to watch the same movies or read the same novels, or buy and listen the same music at a given time, then large corporations will make ridiculously high profits as a result of this. But if people decided to pick their own movies from a large selection, covering perhaps the whole history of cinematography and the whole wide world, if people preferred to pick their own books covering not less than three thousand years of writing, if people chose their music from hundreds of years ago and thousands of different cultures, then the corporations will just disappear. But the pleasure of watching a good movie, reading a good book or listening to good music will be enhanced.
A huge stride away from that last comment, and I feel able to discuss, again, about religion. Churches are like corporations, and they try to offer the best way to contact God. But for some people God doesn't exist, for other people, God is merciful, for others, God is resentful and vengeful. For others, God lives in the body of an infant.For others, in the body of an animal. There would be some saying that God pushes them to fight holy battles and wars. There would be some saying that God gives them powers to heal the body and the soul. For some religions, we come back again and again to this world. for others, we become spirits who will guard the surviving loved ones and other good people from any harm. Some religions would also state that killing oneself and others considered as enemies will bring your soul to a paradise of sensual pleasure. Some people believe that God will punish them by hosting them forever in a fiery pit. The human brain is so creative. I believe in my own contact with God, and I grant myself the liberty of considering him God, and Entity, the Supreme Order, or not considering him at all. For, if God exists, he gave me this liberty at the moment of my creation. And, if he doesn't exist, then who cares whatever we think about him?
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