Another interesting analogy is to think of everything that can be named
or described as a waterfall. A waterfall has form, shape and size and appears to
be a whole entity in and of itself. But if it is removed from the flow of water it
ceases to be. It only makes sense in the context of the stream that it is a part of.
Everything that there is in reality is the result of the flow of The Pure and
Ultimate Energy. The same energy that expressed itself as you a moment ago
has flowed from and into, and caused the existence of, every other object in
the universe; including me. And, yes, it is perpetual.
Good and evil are purely human concepts. They only have meaning from
the human perspective and they are completely subjective to the issue at hand.
God expresses human thoughts and emotions and living human existence and
experience in and through each and every one of us simultaneously.
Therefore, the only good and evil, love and hate, joy and suffering that God
knows is that which we humans feel for ourselves, for each other and for our
surroundings. If this is starting to sound like Secular Humanism ala
Unitarianism well, naming a philosophy is what starts to make it a religion and
that's certainly not the point.
The transmission of intelligence from one person to another,
communication, is, unfortunately, very limited. We have many languages that
are written and spoken, but none of them are any good at conveying real
instantaneous thoughts or emotions that we all experience in our minds all of
the time. Languages are prone to be mistranslated and misinterpreted. The fact
that this article appears in a gay magazine effects the way many people will
assimilate it. And, written words are finite. You can ask this printed page for
clarification and it will offer you none. None of us can step into the perspective
of another. We can only imagine what another person's view of the world must
be. Most of this comes through language.
People have a real need to feel that we belong here. We need to support
our own identity and existence by confirming that other humans believe the
same ideas to be true as we do. That is what defines sanity and civilization.
But, masses of people have such a desire to belong to a particular group that
they begin to hone their system of beliefs to more exactly match that which is
perceived to be the beliefs of the group. The group is what becomes the
ultimate authority instead of the truths that they are trying to profess. That
which is outside of the sphere of understanding of the group is labeled evil
and is shunned and condemned by the faithful followers of the group --more
as a show of belonging than a real, thought out reaction to a real situation.
That is when religion has the power to destroy people rather than enlighten us.
In conclusion: we must all understand that there is no good without evil,
no love without hate, no pleasure without pain. There will always be an "us"
and a "them"; The Yin and The Yang. None of these things could exist without
the other. That is what defines the scale by which we measure the meaning of
life; which, by the way, is purely to exist and experience being. All of the people
of the world together is what gives God a human existence with all of the
wonderful emotions that go along with it. So, when you really love someone,
and you feel pleasure in doing so, God is enjoying your love and pleasure. And
when someone else hates you for that, God feels that too.
